Director of Product Management, CF-212200 *** Completed ***
Overview:
Our client is a Canadian healthcare solution provider delivering innovation to Providers and their Patients. We are looking for an experienced, successful and hands-on Director of Product Management to lead the product management team. The successful candidate will mentor a small, high-performing product management team and create and implement an effective product management structure to work with stakeholders.
The Director of Product Management is responsible for product planning and execution through the lifecycle of the business. This is inclusive of gathering and prioritizing requirements, defining the vision, and collaborating with other directors to ensure financial and consumer satisfaction goals are met.
You will focus on the process of product management: building launch teams; balancing staff assignments; standardizing reporting; fostering cross-functional cooperation; setting product-line-level strategy and resource allocation. You will encourage risk-taking; dismantle organizational roadblocks; keep the trains running; and the products flowing.
You will report to the Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management.
Key Skills:
You are a highly collaborative leader who is able to quickly establish credibility at all levels of the organization
Ability to influence others and build consensus while managing multiple stakeholders
A demonstrated ability to extract complex issues to their core and articulate a compelling business case
A proven track record of using analysis to drive well-founded recommendations and implement effective solutions
Requirements:
Create and manage a results-oriented, performance development culture by establishing individual and team goals
Oversee and ensure the functions of your product management team are efficiently and effectively executed
Conduct market research to assist in understanding current and future product needs
Liaise with the engineering, marketing, sales, business development, and design departments
Keep stakeholders up to date on product progress
Work closely with marketing to develop marketing, lead generation, and sales strategies
Partner with sales to build on product unit sales implementation as well as support strategies
Be the face of the company at executive briefings, marketing events, online consumer platforms, etc.
Qualifications:
7+ years product management experience
Experience managing a team
Proven success defining and releasing products to the market
Strong quantitative analysis skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to coordinate people and activities across multiple functional areas
Demonstrated capability communicating with Sales, Business Development, Marketing and Engineering
Pragmatic Marketing training
Previous Experience in the Software Industry
Healthcare industry experience is a definite asset
Other:
Base salary, variable bonus, healthcare benefits, ESOP
Travel as necessary
The preferred location is BC or Alberta, but other Canadian locations will be considered
Contact:
Please contact Colin Farrell at 604-639-9563 / colin@corporate.bc.ca or Darrell Bowman at 604-639-9562 / darrell@corporate.bc.ca and reference CF-212200.