The Product Group Lead ensures all employees work in a secure environment with clean data, actively participates in new M&A and partnership activities, delivers critical insights as part of our integrated strategy for customers and drives enterprise-wide adoption and change management for innovative tech & data solutions
Our work supports getting meaningful new medicines to patients faster, with greater positive impact This role plays a critical role supporting and delivering against the enterprise roadmap
Core Responsibilities
Provide leadership and guidance to the product and engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Lead a high-performing global team to support new and existing product development Responsibilities include line management, performance management and professional development Act as a mentor and support crossfunctionally for a collaborative and innovative approach with an enterprise mentality
Collaborate with functional leaders to develop user centered products
Work closely with designers, engineering, data science, product marketing, compliance, and others to understand timelines, priorities, and trade-offs
Leads, drives and provides approach for designing the end- to- end strategy for a product portfolio with knowledge of the users, our existing products and technology
Aligned to a domain/executive customer group inside of Syneos Health; the role will drive value including profitable growth for the enterprise through direct and indirect customer engagements Align work to funded asks with strong justification; include potential for commercialization
Understand and document customer and prospective customer needs, distill insights into actionable recommendations that can be added to the product roadmap and requirements to assigned engineering pods to prototype approved work
Work as one to deliver on time, on budget and with quality Iterative process working as a technical team while engaging with the users
Conduct user research and gather product feedback to inform future product development and optimization of existing custom builds
Establish and monitor metrics and KPI s for each product line to ensure that growth strategies are effective or require optimization to achieve the desired outcome
Be a trusted advisor, developing relationships with senior business leaders and understanding their strategies, business plans, pain points, and priorities to inform the product/platform roadmap
Present ideas/low fidelity visuals to answer undeclared needs through active listening and strong ties to the business strategy in partnership with the technical strategist
Lead complex tactical and strategic decision-making regarding product functionality
Oversee facilitation of brainstorming and ideation across business units and product teams
define new processes and workflows to address highly integrated products and drive change management
Qualifications
Bachelor s degree in engineering, computer science or related field
An MBA is preferred
10+ years of relevant product experience
Experience working across multiple stakeholders to deliver results and translate needs/requirements while working with external customers
Experience managing high performing teams is a plus Global experience is preferred
Background in technology, product management and business management
Intensely curious and self-driven
Strong analytical skills, data-driven and methodical
Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills
The ability to identify and reduce friction in the user experience
A passionate commitment to making an impact on product growth
Ability to prioritize initiatives that will drive the most significant business impact
Diplomacy to successfully work within a cross-functional team
Familiarity with user design concepts and UX best practices
Proven track record of owning the end to end of product lifecycle from ideation to delivery and beyond
Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and feature concepts
Experience working across a broad/large organization with the ability to work cross-functionally to influence and support the business strategy
Excellent communication skills to effectively make a compelling business case when prioritizing initiatives and developing experiments
