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Senior Product Manager
Senior Product ManagerBioSpace • Boston, MA, United States
Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

BioSpace • Boston, MA, United States
4 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

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Objectives / Purpose

The Senior Product Manager role involves aligning business and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate a portfolio of products, manage product planning and backlog prioritization, and ensure a sustainable end-to-end customer experience globally. This position reports to the Head of Design & Delivery and operates within the Development & Regulatory DD&T organization, supporting Global Development and Global Regulatory business functions.

Responsibilities

  • Product Strategy and Vision : Develops and conveys product strategy and vision in collaboration with stakeholders, aligning with business goals and technology directions. Maintains and communicates the product roadmap and backlog to ensure team alignment and delivery of value.
  • AI Native : Consistently challenge how processes and therefore products can evolve to exploit AI and drive towards the workforce and products of the future.
  • Technical and Leadership Expertise : Requires understanding of clinical trial delivery and / or Regulatory processes, product management in pharmaceutical R&D, and the ability to bridge business and technical teams. Collaborates with product engineers and designers to support a modern product ecosystem.
  • Qualifications and Skills : Prefers a bachelor’s degree in scientific discipline, computer science, or business administration, with at least seven (7) years of experience in R&D, IT service delivery, or related areas. Emphasizes stakeholder management, design thinking, and excellent communication skills.
  • Align with key stakeholders across business and technology to develop and convey product vision.
  • Own product planning, including short-term release plans and long-term roadmaps.
  • Drive prioritization of the product backlog to keep the team unblocked and aligned.

Accountabilities

  • Solicits information from IT Business Partners or Business Stakeholders on business direction, goals, and strategies to inform development of product strategies. Collaborates effectively with technology delivery teams to develop roadmap for new and ongoing product development. Builds and maintains the product backlog with the technical team.
  • Continuously prioritizes work in the backlog to deliver the most significant value to the product users.
  • Facilitates and drives alignments among key stakeholders to develop product strategy, vision, and roadmap to support business strategy.
  • Works within product budget established in consultation with stakeholders by balancing resources, vision development, and prototyping, and sustaining product teams to deliver and maintain the product.
  • Maintains and serves as the communicator of the product vision.
  • Continually monitors and refines the product and performing service management.
  • Optimizes user experience.

    • Core Elements Related To This Role

  • Strategic Planning and Thinking – Develops product strategies, vision and roadmaps that align with the product line, architecture and technology direction and are consistent with enterprise priorities.
  • Functional knowledge of Clinical Trial Delivery processes and technologies.

    • Technical / Functional Expertise

  • Understands the language the product teams use to conduct their work and is conversant with all tools and techniques required to communicate with and deliver work to a team.
  • Ability to operate within core technologies required for the product, including artificial intelligence or machine learning if needed.
  • Translates technical language into business language as needed to bridge gaps between business and technical professionals across the product value stream.
  • Understands business processes supported by the product and can communicate with relevant R&D teams.

    • Leadership

  • Collaborate effectively with Product Engineers, Business System Owners, Solution Architecture and other stakeholders on an ecosystem of Products, Platforms, Analytics and Microservices to provide a modern footprint.

    • Decision-making & Autonomy

  • Evaluates and recommends the right technology platforms and software products to solve business problems.

    • Interaction

  • Embeds with product teams as needed to ensure full transparency and no surprises, keeping stakeholders up to date with delivery status, product risks and scope changes.
  • Reconciles perspectives on product strategy and priorities into a consensus that all stakeholders can support.

    • Innovation

  • Stays on top of new industry trends and understands how such technologies may be applied to the product roadmap.

    • Complexity

  • Conveys the product vision and related messages to gain stakeholder buy‑in and enthusiasm.
  • When required to evangelize the vision to target communities or ecosystems, represents the product or platform effectively so that all ecosystem partners feel heard and well‑served.

    • Education, Behavioural Competencies & Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in scientific discipline, computer science, or business administration (preferred but not required).
  • 7+ years of professional experience in R&D, IT service delivery, or related areas; familiarity with lean and agile software delivery teams preferred.
  • Professional in‑depth knowledge of product management in the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Experience in stakeholder relationship management; influential in orchestrating key stakeholders and product teams to turn vision into reality.
  • Strong understanding of Clinical Trial Delivery and / or Regulatory Affairs / Operations processes and supporting technology platforms.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills, business acumen, and enterprise knowledge.
  • Minimum : Understands design thinking.
  • Nice to have : Accomplished practitioner of design thinking with a proven track record of developing and exploiting deep customer insights.

    • Takeda Compensation And Benefits Summary

    U.S. Base Salary Range : $137,000 – $215,270 (actual base may vary based on qualifications, experience, skills, education, and location). U.S. based employees may be eligible for short‑term and / or long‑term incentives, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, short‑term and long‑term disability, basic life, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteer time off, holidays, and other well‑being benefits. Up to 80 hours of sick time and up to 120 hours of paid vacation (new hires).

    EEO Statement

    Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

    Location

    Boston, MA

    Employment Type

    Full time, Employee, Regular

    Job Exempt

    Yes

    It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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