Magellan Health is a healthcare management company, and they are seeking a Senior IT Product Manager to define the vision and strategy for a portfolio of products. The role involves managing product roadmaps, overseeing cross-functional coordination, and engaging with stakeholders to deliver business value.
Responsibilities:
- Work with business partners to define business value and set business boundaries for the product
- Assume responsibility for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for that product or product line
- Deliver upon commitments to that roadmap including participation in design sessions, scrum meetings, product demonstrations, planning sessions, and mitigation strategies as impediments arise
- Leverage direct resources, indirect reports, and third parties for assistance in defining technical requirements or design needs for new initiatives
- Develop release plans with specific feature/functionality based on value to the business and speed to market
- Identify product definition compared to industry landscape and perform 'build versus buy' analysis, partnering with business and leveraged technical resources to define architectural landscape, integration capabilities, and impacts to people, processes, or technologies as a result
- Understand and assess pricing and licensing models for infrastructure and software as a solution (SaaS) consumption based on transactions, named user, concurrent user, etc., or on-premise perpetual licenses with annual maintenance contracts, etc
- Identify efficiency opportunities in current state product as well as supporting environments to enhance and protect data integrity, including data efficacy and reconciliation
- Understand and participate in financial planning and monitoring, whether in direct or leveraged cost centers, including budget setting, forecasting, tracking spend, and providing variance explanations
- Partner with sales to ensure technical capabilities align with proposed scope of services, including reviewing and/or proposing contractual language to safeguard the interests of the client and of Magellan IT
- Partner with account management and other business stakeholders to ensure business requirements for a given initiative are accurately captured and communicated to leveraged development teams
- Lead or participate in client facing meetings to define scope, outline capabilities, and/or represent status of an initiative
- Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) to track and monitor product efficacy to the business
- Forecast product obsolescence and migration strategies for data transition functionality upon retiring product
- Perform cross organization collaboration with project managers, iteration managers and other key stakeholders to ensure product delivery, adoption and efficacy
- Assess cost versus benefit and return on investment (ROI) analyses
- Assess changes in business needs and adapt product direction and/or identify risks and associated mitigation strategies
Requirements:
- 7 years of product management experience
- Movement across different departments within IT while gaining a broader perspective of the business/industry
- Must have 4+ years of experience leading teams
- Experience with Agile software development methodologies
- A Combination of Education and Work Experience May Be Considered
- Bachelor's