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

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 125,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Flexible wages access (myFlexPay)

Short- and long-term disability

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Manager for WaveMark Solutions, a cloud-based platform that automates and analyzes healthcare supply chain workflows.

The role focuses on understanding healthcare supply chain dynamics, customer needs, and market opportunities to drive product development, pilot, and commercialization initiatives. The individual contributor role requires advanced product and healthcare domain knowledge, with collaboration across Engineering, Architecture, Data &

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 with engineering, data, design, and other functions.
• Healthcare supply chain, inventory management, ERP experience, medical device, or clinical experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define unmet needs and leading-edge product opportunities by researching healthcare supply chain workflows and market trends.
• Translate validated workflow opportunities into product concepts, requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria using agile methods.
• Lead large-scale product development projects from initiation through launch, coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Develop commercialization strategies, including branding, sales inputs, training, pilot deployment, and adoption planning.

Skills

Agile product development

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Country-wide Remote

US-Nationwide-FIELD

Full time

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.

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects
• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models
• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope
• Projects may have significant and long-term impact
• Provides solutions which may set precedent
• Independently determines method for completion of new projects
• Receives guidance on overall project objectives
• Acts as a mentor to 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.

Anticipated salary range

$125,300-161,010

Bonus eligible

Yes

Benefits

Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

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Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities.

We are a crucial link between the clinical and operational sides of healthcare, delivering end-to-end solutions and data-driving insights that advance healthcare and improve lives every day. With deep partnerships, diverse perspectives and innovative digital solutions, we build connections across the continuum of care.

With more than 50 years of experience, we seize the opportunity to address healthcare's most complicated challenges - now, and in the future.

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