Product Manager/Coach

$124,800 - $133,120/Yr

Aquent - Stamford, CT

Full-time - Mid Level

Stamford, CT

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Product Manager/Coach role is a strategic position within a major healthcare organization, focusing on enabling efficient and effective delivery of value to customers. This role involves partnering with leadership to drive meaningful change across products and services, emphasizing leadership, collaboration, and continuous improvement without a technical focus.

Responsibilities

• Provides counsel and advice to top management on significant Product Strategy matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.
• Drives the development of product definition and solution plans to optimize the company's products and services portfolio.
• Evaluates business opportunities to define and optimize the product portfolio and solution alternatives through analysis and understanding of targeted markets, market trends, new technology, customer business issues and the competitive environment.
• Establishes strategies in order to manage a product or product category.
• Develops new product value propositions and targeted feature sets.
• Assists in the development and implementation of operational guidelines and objectives for the product portfolio.
• Interprets internal or external issues and recommends solutions/best practices.
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions.
• May lead or manage sizable projects.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines.
• Recognized internally as 'the go-to person' for the most complex Product Strategy assignments.
• Collaborate with IT and business leaders to catalyze sustainable and impactful change, evaluating and shaping organizational design, structure, and culture.
• Mentor and upskill team members across the organization, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Utilize the company's Enterprise Operating Model to develop and refine training, materials, and guidelines, ensuring integration with organizational objectives.
• Serve as a catalyst for transformational/efficient practices, promoting a culture of adaptability and responsiveness across the organization.
• Interface with all levels of leadership to support organizational change, including process, practice, and tooling changes.
• Work with globally distributed teams to implement Lean, Agile, Customer Centricity, and other relevant principles, demonstrating the impact of coaching changes.
• Create a culture of shared best practices, proactively address organizational obstacles, and provide coaching, mentoring, and training at all organizational levels.
• Accountable for building relationships & having the right conversations.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to establish a shared vision and set clear, measurable goals that align with customer needs and business objectives.

Requirements

• Strong collaborative leadership skills with business and technology acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with others and lead Change Management initiatives.
• Expertise in various scaling practices and shifting from project to product-centric paradigms.
• Capacity to challenge existing assumptions and overcome resistance.
• Comprehensive experience in a variety of enterprise roles and responsibilities.
• Expertise in Scrum, Kanban, scaling frameworks (such as the Scaled Agile Framework), and related methodologies.
• Capable of evaluating organizational health metrics and disseminating insightful data through visual management techniques.

Nice-to-haves

• Any Product Management/Product Development/Product Coaching certifications a plus.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance