Pharsight® Employment Opportunities
VP, Product Management (Cary, NC)
Job Objectives:
The VP, Product Management will be responsible for directing and overseeing a “world class software product management team” responsible for the execution of the strategic vision for all software products. As the overall evangelist for the product offerings, this position will ensure the product management team is partnering effectively internally with sales, marketing and engineering teams to support market definition, competitive analysis, product business plans, product specifications and product strategy. They will ensure that current and future product strategy and releases support corporate revenue growth and market share objectives.
Essential Job Functions:
- Oversees the product life cycles including: strategic planning, market requirement identification, product specification development, release planning and execution and on-going product management
- Ensures that strategic product plans are implemented by product management, sales and development teams effectively
- Oversees product management team in their efforts to generate market research, monitor competitive activity, identifying customer needs and establishing pricing strategies
- Fosters strategic relationships between clients and product management team
- Manages product management team in best practice methods of recruiting, development and mentoring
- Ensures the product management discipline is effectively working with other teams internally and is highly regarded by the external market and clients
- Adds expertise, strategic vision and solutions as a member of the executive management team
- Manages departmental budgetary expenses
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Ability to create and maintain successful internal and external relationships by way of superior communication skills
- Finely-tuned team management skills in coaching and development as well as recruitment and selection of product marketing professionals
- Excellent presentation skills that are effective with internal and external audiences
- Ability to manage a product management team to ensure technical knowledge is translated to product strategic vision from conception to market
- Ability to deeply understand market and client needs and facilitate acceptance and engagement of internal stakeholders to enable driving products to market
- Ability to manage and oversee a product management team as they work through technical issues, development roadmaps and product release requirements that impact product releases
- Ability to maintain a strong external market big-picture vision for both product and company strategy, finding innovative solutions for a broader market and understanding internal resources
Minimum Requirements:
- MBA (with technical B.S.) or M.S.
- At least 15 years of experience in product management
- At least 10 years of experience managing a product management team and a departmental budget
- Knowledge of the software development life cycle, preferably in life sciences
- Experience with products targeted at the pharmaceutical industry
- Experience in successful leadership of new product definition, release and deployment in the market
- Experience in strategically partnering with clients to enhance current products and/or release a new products
Travel Required:
- 20-30%
Other:
- 5 direct reports
Send resume to:
Human Resources, Pharsight Corporation
Fax: 650.314.3813
321 E. Evelyn Ave, 3rd Fl.
Mountain View, CA 94041-1530
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