Senior Product Manager/Business Integrator-Digital at Elanco in greenfield, Indiana

Job Description:

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Position Description:

At Elanco IT, Product Management is part of our Business Relationship Management (BRM) team, covering all internal and external digital products, technologies and systems.  The Product Manager is responsible for leading business plan, providing the product vision, strategy and prioritization, and leading cross-functional teams through the product lifecycle including discovery (rapid experimentation) and delivery (scaled releases).    This role sets at the intersection of business functions, information technology and user experience.  As the “face of IT” to Commercial and Marketing, this role requires expert leadership, influence, communication and stakeholder management skills.  As Product Manager for Digital, this role owns the most strategic initiatives for Elanco’s future.

This means that the product manager must contribute to her product team a solid knowledge of the various constraints of the business – constraints from marketing, sales, service, finance, legal, and privacy are typical examples.  The product manager must also contribute to the product team a deep knowledge of our users and customers, and the data about how our customers engage with our products.  Finally, the product manager is expected to track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to her product.

While each member of the product team may be accountable for a specific risk, we look for product managers that understand that consistent innovation is the result of each member of the product team contributing their passion and their ideas.  The product manager must collaborate closely with her product designer and engineers to discover effective solutions, and then work together to deliver those solutions to market.

While we empower our product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we also hold those teams accountable to the results.  Delivery is necessary, but not sufficient.  We look for product managers that are not afraid of signing up for results, even when this means they have to work through others to achieve the necessary results.

This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role.  You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of data and logic.

Diverse Perspectives:

We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible.  As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences.  Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our product team.

Responsibilities:

Customer

• Establish and maintain key relationships with external customers and internal Commercial and Marketing stakeholders at all levels including executive leadership.


• Serve as the key connection point between Commercial and Marketing stakeholders and IT.


• Through customer, data, industry, and business expertise, help to identify new product opportunities.

Product Management

• Lead products through the product lifecycle, including discovery (rapid experimentation) and delivery (scaled releases).


• Define the product vision and strategy, specifically value and viability.


• Recommend investments in new technologies/products and improvement in existing ones.


• Ensure the product is clearly differentiated, delivering unique value based on the target outcome.


• Continuously lead market research (internal and external), including value/journey mapping.

Product Team Leadership

• Act as a thought leader within the Business Relationship Management (BRM) team, influencing and continuously maturing governance, processes, etc.


• Establish strong partnerships with key business partners, Commercial and Marketing, looking to anticipate needs and shape direction.


• Lead cross-functional product teams across design and engineering, specifically SolutionOps and DataOps, partnering with a qualified Scrum Master.


• Establish and maintain a symbiotic relationship with peers within SolutionOps and DataOps (design and engineering), maintaining alignment across the product roadmap and solution/data backlog.


• Advise on key initiatives, supporting product teams across the product lifecycle.


• Establish strong partnerships with key service integrators (vendors), helping to ensure competency and strategic alignment.


• Establish a strong partnership with Privacy, Quality, and Information Security, identifying opportunities/risks.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree


• Minimum 10 years experience working on technology delivery as business analyst, business integrator, project manager/leader.


• Minimum 5 years experience with commercial, marketing or sales/financial data and technologies.


• Demonstrated ability to partner with functional stakeholders to envision and deliver technology solutions.


• Demonstrated experience of influence and communication across IT, Finance, Sales and Marketing at all levels including executive level.


• Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing.


• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.


• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship.


• Experience working in complex business environments.



• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Elanco Animal Health does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B or TN status) for this employment position.

Additional Skills/Preferences:

• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery.

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status