Sr. Product Manager, Strategic Growth - Supply Chain Intelligence & Workflows

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Field (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cardinal Health™ WaveMark™ Solutions seeks a Senior Product Manager to drive workflow strategies for healthcare supply chains, translating customer needs and market dynamics into product concepts and leading large cross-functional projects from discovery to launch.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Data & Analytics, Marketing, Customer Success and Sales to deliver differentiated workflow improvements, manage a portfolio, and optimize products for growth and adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years in product management, preferably in healthcare or related domains.
• Strong Agile product development experience with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with healthcare supply chain, inventory management, ERP, or medical devices preferred.
• Willingness to travel about 20-30% as required.

Responsibilities

• Define workflow strategies and lead product development from discovery through launch.
• Translate opportunities into product concepts, requirements, and acceptance criteria using agile methods.
• Coordinate with engineering, analytics, marketing, sales, and operations to deliver and commercialize the product.
• Monitor adoption and outcomes to drive continuous improvement and lifecycle management.

Skills

Agile product development

Stakeholder leadership

Healthcare supply chain

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Cardinal Health™ WaveMark™ Solutions, is a market leader in healthcare inventory automation and analytics providing a scalable, enterprise-level, cloud-based platform that integrates with clinical and financial systems. For more than 20 years, WaveMark™ has helped health systems automate and simplify clinical and supply chain workflows, enabling clinicians to spend less time managing supplies and more time focused on patient care.

Job Summary

The Sr. Product Manager is responsible for understanding healthcare supply chain workflows, market dynamics, customer needs, and emerging innovations to develop workflow strategies and lead product development initiatives that enable business growth. The role defines customer problems and desired outcomes, evaluates market and portfolio expansion opportunities, translates validated opportunities into product concepts and requirements, and leads complex projects from discovery and business case through POC, pilot, ideation and collaborates with Platform Product Management for product delivery and commercialization, launch, adoption, and optimization.

This individual contributor applies advanced product, healthcare supply chain, and technical knowledge and leads through influence with no required direct reports. The role works closely with Engineering, Architecture, Data & Analytics, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and external vendor or supplier partners to deliver differentiated workflow advancements aligned to the product portfolio strategy.

Responsibilities

• Supply Chain Workflow Strategy and Market Development Research healthcare supply chain workflows, customer needs, market trends, projections, competitive dynamics, and emerging innovations to define unmet needs and leading-edge product opportunities. Develop workflow strategies and product concepts that advance supply chain intelligence, automation, efficiency, visibility, and clinical or operational integration for healthcare providers. Evaluate portfolio expansion opportunities using market size, barriers to entry, differentiated value, regulatory assessment, portfolio alignment, customer value, and business growth potential.
• Product Concept, Requirements, and Business Case Translate validated workflow opportunities into product concepts, target outcomes, detailed requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success criteria using agile methodologies. Develop and present business cases and stage-gate recommendations, including value proposition, market opportunity, investment, financial assumptions, risks, dependencies, and strategic fit. Use customer evidence, prototypes, pilots, analytics, and technical feasibility to refine requirements and recommend build, partner, buy, scale, iterate, or defer decisions.
• Product Development and Commercialization Lead complex product development projects of large scope from initiation through closing, independently determining methods while aligning to overall project objectives, timelines, quality, investment, and desired outcomes. Establish or coordinate commercialization strategies including product pro forma, branding and sales strategy inputs, communication vehicles, training, pilot-site deployment, customer engagement, and launch readiness in partnership with accountable functions. Coordinate Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and other stakeholders through requirement, POC, development, validation, launch, and adoption.
• Launch, Growth, and Continuous Improvement Operationalize product launches through coordinated customer engagement, implementation readiness, enablement, support, adoption planning, and performance monitoring as required. Monitor customer adoption, workflow value, market response, quality, financial performance, and product outcomes; translate evidence into optimization, expansion, or lifecycle recommendations. Recommend new practices, processes, metrics, models, policies, or procedures that improve product development effectiveness and may set precedent; mentor less experienced colleagues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• 8+ years' experience in product management, preferred.
• Strong Agile product development experience and ability to work effectively with engineering, design, architecture, data, security, privacy, quality, regulatory, legal, procurement, finance, and operations.
• Healthcare supply chain, inventory management, ERP experience, medical device, or clinical experience preferred.
• Strong analytical, writing, facilitation, presentation, negotiation, relationship management, and stakeholder leadership skills.
• Ability to travel approximately 20-30%, based on product, and customer needs.
• Customer/Vendor credentialing may be required (this may include vaccinations)–additional details will be provided if selected for the interview process.