Senior Director, Commercial Product Development

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This role is responsible for supporting the successful development, pilot, testing, and launch of new solutions. This individual will work directly with colleagues across functions to embed these solutions into the company DNA, integrating with existing solutions, processes, and company culture. The role will require significant collaboration & influence across internal company teams throughout core distribution, marketing, legal, compliance, communications, sales, sales enablement & training, and business owners.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities :

• Develops and drives the strategic roadmap for the Procurement Platform, including prioritization of features and solutions that align with the company's omnichannel and ecosystem strategy.
• Leads efforts to monetize the Procurement Platform, identifying revenue-generating opportunities and developing business models to capture value.
• Responsible for the design, launch, and management of an integration approach and framework for solution development, ensuring alignment with broader company objectives.
• Manages the development, testing, and implementation of a go-to-market plan, including product positioning, marketing, training, and implementation.
• Provides inputs into the strategic direction for the organization and supports policy implementation, ensuring alignment with platform goals.
• Drives understanding and hierarchy of solutions that directly address customer needs and works with internal teams to enable the sales organization to effectively sell those solutions.
• Works cross-functionally across ABC with the required teams (e.g., finance, operations, legal, product, marketing, sales, etc.) to assess resources and capital to enable rapid development and successful launch of key solutions across the platform.
• Ensures effective collaboration, communication, and socialization to drive the creation and implementation of a cohesive solution strategy and solution launch program.
• Facilitates and drives workshops, ideation sessions, and practical aspects of day-to-day innovation to identify gaps and translate needs into the development framework, including ideation and testing with customers when appropriate.
• Develops tools and processes to measure and monitor program implementation and process compliance.
• Partners with sales enablement, communications, training, and marketing, sharing best practices globally, both internally and externally, to position the Procurement Platform for successful launch and sustained growth.
• Guides the broader team in employing agile engineering, design thinking, and rapid prototyping to accelerate platform development.
• Owns capital requests and ROI justifications to ensure alignment with business objectives and financial goals.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Experience and Educational Requirements :