Senior Product Manager

VSP Vision Care is a leading company in the optical industry, seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the development and delivery of market-leading products and services. The role involves defining product vision and strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful product initiatives that maximize value for the enterprise and its customers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and delivery of products and/or services that are market-leading, and that maximize value for the enterprise and its customers
• Define overall product/service vision and strategy, create business plans, make recommendations to management and executive team, and communicate plans both internally and externally
• Effectively lead a cross-functional and/or cross LOB team to ensure the successful delivery of product initiatives, including creating Product Requirements Documents, market positioning, or strategy documents. May act as a lead for Associate Product Managers or other team members
• Work with business partners to provide direction on market positioning, training, and communications to the public for the assigned product portfolio
• Serve as a central resource and decision maker for all assigned products and initiatives, and coordinate with business partners to address and resolve product and/or client-specific issues and business rules
• Conduct ongoing market and portfolio evaluation to ensure products remain competitive and meet operational, financial, and market success goals

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience, graduate degree in business (MBA) is strongly desired
• Six years of experience in product management, marketing, or customer-focused health care
• Minimum of 6 years of experience with project or program management and proven leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze market research and financial information, evaluate profitability, and identify trends
• Demonstrated ability to handle broad, complex, and unstructured tasks ranging from analytical to strategic in nature
• Superior knowledge of product and/or service development methodologies
• Highly skilled at managing products across operational divisions
• Highly skilled at effectively accomplishing objectives through others via influencing, delegating, and strong working relationships
• Proven ability to effectively communicate information to a wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization
• Thorough understanding of business implications, project interdependencies and system interfaces
• Proficient at facilitating meetings and negotiating across all levels of the organization
• Ability to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of job duties
• Preferred background in Optical
• Preferred background in training
• Preferred experience scaling training and education to large groups or broad numbers
• Ability to travel 25%