Project / Product Manager Job Description
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Project / Product Manager Job Description
- Develop product roadmaps and identify opportunities to develop new products
- Streamline product offering where needed
- Develop marketing collateral and work with in-house marketing agency to design and deliver materials
- Monitor technical competitive trends within the marketplace and identify opportunities for application within product categories
- Work cross-functionally with manufacturing, purchasing and distribution to manage costs and optimize profitability of products
- Develop and support customer/contractor programs aligned with product development effort
- Conduct market research and publish articles on key business issues and strategic initiatives
- Present information at trade shows, technical forums, to internal senior management as necessary
- Identifying insights that deepen our understanding of the disease state, local market and customer/ patient needs
- Working closely with cross-functional partners in market access, medical affairs, marketing and external stakeholders to identify critical success factors and then developing and execute plans to ensure rapid product uptake at launch
- Maintain governance by following project management best practise and use of approved document templates
- Keep all documents up to date, accurate, formatted, in correct folder structure, version controlled, ready for
- Audit inspections
- Monitor issue resolution and capture approach
- And encourage others within project team to record and advise of other potential process improvements
- Knowledge of some of following Swift messaging, Workflow, TCX, GFP, Fund Accounting platforms (such as Global Invest One)
Project / Product Manager Job Description
- Identify risks and mitigation/contingency plans
- Understand the business environment and challenges in our users’ organizations and industry
- Act as liason between the Software team and other business units
- Budget, plan and execute projects of the various kinds
- Develop strategic business plans in support of new business development opportunities (in-house or licensed) that are aligned with the Division’s strategic objectives
- You’ll have brilliant relationship skills, specifically managing suppliers and ensure they are delivering at least to the contract
- You’ll be change focused and you’ll identify and deliver product change, proactively building business cases for change, and creating a compelling story to encourage the business to support the change
- You’ll be commercially savvy, and you’ll keep an eye on competitor offerings and be aware of other communications technologies, and you’ll keep abreast of innovation in email
- Drive progress and visibility using projects schedules, status at a glance, and quality at a glance
- Provide leadership in meeting the customer, safety, quality, manufacturing, cost, and regulatory requirements with designs that have sustainable differentiation in the marketplace
- Strong project management skills including familiarity with agile processes and tools like JIRA and Trello, proven track record of managing projects on time and on budget
- History of demonstrating strong leadership & influence via leading previous project teams
- At least 2 years' previous product/ brand management, marketing or prior product launch experience, ideally in either immunology, haematology-oncology or neuroscience
- Good understanding of market access fundamentals as they apply to the pharmaceutical industry (e.g understanding of local regulatory approval and reimbursement processes)
- Good understanding of clinical development or clinical trials as they relate to the launch of new medicines (e.g understanding impact of clinical trial programs on market access)
- Demonstrated commercial acumen, strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
Project / Product Manager Job Description
- Provides clear direction, specifies desired results and delegates effectively
- Provides objective feedback to management regarding staff performance
- Coordinate the activities of others (co-workers, vendors and customers) and manage stakeholder expectations and requirements
- Ensure that the project scope is driven by the business imperatives/requirements of the organization
- Assesses the requirements to ensure they are driving the overall solution and maintain consistent focus throughout the project or initiative
- Ensure that the project documentation is consistent, coherent and developed at an appropriate level of detail
- Prepares detailed project plans/schedules to meet project delivery goals
- Prepares and maintains the project budget, working with finance
- Project oversight and management (~60%)
- Act as a liaison between Product Managers, CS Operations, and Engineering organizations in aligning requirements with the delivery of strategic objectives
- The Launch Project Manager will lead project teams to deliver multiple, simultaneous projects that span across several BUs
- Role can be based in Toronto, Waterloo or Montreal
- Some travel between sites required
- Bachelor's degree or above in Telecommunication, IT, Computer Science, Engineering or relevant discipline is highly preferred
- Extensive experience in Telecom industry with at least 3 years experience in project/product management
- Team and external vendors management experience is a MUST
Project / Product Manager Job Description
- Lead process failure mode effect analysis (pFMEA) activities
- Lead / manage process validation – PQ/OQ/IQ
- Ensure all quality requirements are met
- Ensure all safety and environmental requirements are met
- Generate and manage the necessary project documentation for clients, government agencies, and notified bodies
- Lead / manage engineering team staff
- Products come out in cycles, so the candidate will be helping with the release of emerging devices
- Create product detail pages, what markets they are releasing in, production timeline
- Coordinate with the Marketing team on release cycles (many meetings)
- Run meetings, schedule rooms
- Experience of running integrated projects using matrix management of large multi-disciplinary teams
- Be willing to travel occasionally outside of UK(depending on specific project requirements)
- Have engineering product delivery experience
- Be experienced in Gate Model project delivery
- Ideally have achieved recognized Project Management accreditation (preferably Prince2, but could also PMI or IPMA)
- Minimum 10 years’ experience associated with Additive Manufacturing and Project Management
Project / Product Manager Job Description
- Participates in negotiation with vendors and/or clients during process design and implementation of existing products and/or services
- Monitors market and collects competitor information to perform competitor analysis
- Monitors performance of a single platform and gathers data and analyzes products and divisional performance
- Participates in the communication and partnering with Executives and/or Division leaders to identify and evaluate ongoing corporate growth opportunities domestically and internationally
- With some oversight, develops business cases for new products or solutions to serve as inputs to decision-making, prioritization, pricing, and client value proposition
- This position will manage several new molecular entities (NMEs) through the development process and includes the work performed prior to placing it into the Medici mini-pump
- Manage the project timelines, budgets, and resource needs for each NME
- Manage the technical teams responsible for making any necessary adjustments to the Medici pump to enable delivery of the NMEs
- Participate in development and implementation of the annual marketing plan for the Promotion Network
- Identify, monitor and report on the key metrics for all marketing activities to maximize return on investment and resource allocation
- Experience with SCRUM and AGILE Software project management highly desired
- 2 years of experience in software product management for engineering tools is preferred
- Possess Bachelor's degree in any related fields
- Total working experience of 5 years with 3 years relevant Product Management experience
- Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering preferred
- Minimum 4 years of project management with focus on Life Sciences domain