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%