The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for a PRODUCT MANAGER in our NATIONAL CENTER office located in DALLAS, TX . In this role, you will lead the product and business development for the Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Determines customers' needs and desires by specifying the research needed to obtain market information.
- Develops business plan and identifies potential business models to support commercialization opportunities including joint ventures, etc.
- Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas.
- Assesses market competition by comparing AHA’s product(s) to competitors' products.
- Provides source data for product line communications by defining product marketing communication objectives.
- Obtains product market share by developing product sales strategies and tactics.
- Assesses product market data by calling on customers to evaluate sales call results.
- Develop tactical pipeline including short-term leads (current fiscal year) and long-term leads (2-3 years).
- Provides information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests.
- Brings new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses and clearly communicating product capabilities and features to support marketing, sales and science teams.
- Introduces and markets new products by developing timelines and integrated plans with sales, marketing, advertising/promotion, and production.
- Determines product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing special and customized orders.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional associations.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Interfaces and partners with all levels of the AHA business.
Educational Background:
Bachelor’s degree in a technical or related field, preferably computer science
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum of five (5) years of Product Management experience in enterprise software, big data, and cloud technologies, bioinformatics or genomics experience is a strong plus.
- Proven ability to launch successful product experiences that are used and desired by customers.
- Entrepreneurial “can do” attitude with the ability to find creative, pragmatic solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effortlessly communicate at the right level with business stakeholders, the science research community and engineers.
- Experience consistently delivering in an agile environment as a product owner
- Strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities in the face of ambiguity.
- Good understanding of large-scale web-based software systems, API-driven web services, cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS).
- Understanding of HCI and UX design principles and techniques.
- Ability to lead and collaborate in multiple, cross-functional team environments including various external and internal stakeholders.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 12 2017
Active Until:
Oct 13 2017
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit