Job Title : Product Manager-Digital Health
Locations Gaithersburg, MD
Work Type : Full Time Employment
Job Description :
Client's Digital Health R&D ambition is to transform Clinical Development and Healthcare Delivery, powered by digital, science and partnerships, to deliver the healthcare outcomes and experience that patients care about the most. Digital Health R&D is reimagining how we work to position client as an industry leader, making the development & delivery of new medicines easier. We're doing this by harnessing the latest digital innovations working with patients, clinicians and our teams to design and build the technology and working practices at scale.
- We are accelerating our transformation efforts to ensure we deliver the best in groundbreaking technology capabilities to keep us at the forefront of future drug development.
- The Digital Patient Health & Innovation function is part of Digital Health R&D and works across 4 key areas by defining our digital health strategies, developing and deploying Client endpoints as well as digital patient solutions to support our full R&D clinical development and commercial drug portfolios in partnership with R&D and IT teams.
Our mission is to :
Transform clinical development, through development of patient and site centric digital solutions that improve access to clinical trials for all patients, whilst delivering faster and more efficiently for both site and sponsorImprove outcomes for our patients and trials through remote data collection and patient support, providing enriched data sets to support regulatory submissions and differentiated labellingPartner with the healthcare industry to determine how digital technologies can improve diagnosis, access to treatments and outcomes for patients with CKD, Heart Failure and COPD, including remote diagnosis tools and multi-modal healthcare data and AI approachesOptimise real world medication use by patients and deliver digital interventions to improve clinical outcomes with our medicinesWould you like to apply your expertise to transform how we develop medicines and change patients' lives in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Do you thrive on working flexibly at the forefront of science and technology in a rapidly changing global environment? Fancy the chance to deliver patient centric, sustainable and efficient solutions at scale across our portfolio in partnership with patients, healthcare professionals and our R&D teams? Then ClientDigital Health R&D might be the place for you!
The Product Manager will lead our work to design and develop a pioneering app platform to support patients before, during and after a clinical trial through close collaboration together with the Unify Deployment team, Development Operations and other parts of client. The role will work with other SMEs within and outside Clientto deliver innovative approaches to transform the user experience and enable capture of key data direct from patients. You will also be responsible for mapping the external technical landscape and understand similar product pro's and con's from a patient perspective. You will work in a team of Product Managers / Owners to jointly deliver a flexible product that covers most aspects of patient interactions in a clinical trial ensuring seamless integration across all Unify domains.
Lead work to design and deliver continuous enhancement of the Unify patient app to secure support excellent patient centric experiences, facilitate patient-site interactions and ensure data collection and qualityDesign systems that allow an operationally effective delivery and adaption to new instruments and studies' demandCollaborate with SMEs to drive innovations in to deliver valuable features that can be delivered in the most patient / site centric way.Work closely with the other Product Managers / Owners within Unify as well as other products in Digital Health. Work as part of a cross-functional AGILE delivery team in building and driving an implementation plan. Responsible for stimulating conceptual thinking and creativity and challenging the status quo for continuous improvement.You will need a deep understanding of business, clinical site needs and patient needs to craft the processes, solution and prioritize improvement needs.Deliver high-quality, hypothesis tested, business requirements, functional specifications, business processes, and system rules.Drive research with patients / user groups to define patient needs and understands how to implement solutionsUnderstand the current landscape of digital patent solutions and what their strength and development areas are.Deliver effective recommendations for prioritization regarding the product backlog items in order to deliver maximum outcome with minimum input in line with business priorities.Review, analyze and evaluate business systems / processes and user-needs while serving as the key link between digital and IT development teams.Act as a change agent during the global roll-out of new technologies - embed new tools and technologies into the business and measure success. Provide leadership for those leading the day-to-day implementation of new tools through to completion.Help build a learning organization : ensure that any learning associated with the programs is shared within the Digital OrganizationMinimum Qualifications :
Life Sciences degree7 years of minimum experienceUnderstanding of the drug development process, and the different sources of information that will support, inform and assist in Trial Design and executionWell-developed Product Management skillsDeep knowledge of design and business process related to the product areaKnowledge about Clinical trial deliveryKnowledge of GCP, 21 CFR part 11, relevant guidelines ISPOR, ISOQOL, FDA, EMAAbility to work collaboratively in a cross functional setting with internal as well as external partnersAbility to challenge the status quo, take ownership and holds self and others accountableSenior collaborator management skill with together with proven negotiation, collaboration and interpersonal leadership skillsEffective problem and conflict solving skillsExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to deal with ambiguity and create clarityPassion for Customers, representing the needs of multiple customers in decision making.Desired Qualifications :
Patient first thinking with an understanding of business needsThrives in a fast-paced work environment, comfortable with complexity and uncertainty at times, lots of humor, dedication to deliver outcomes and motivated by the opportunity to rethink our approach to healthcare.Comfort and skills operating in a heavily matrixed organizations with excellent skills and intuition to manage the needs of various partners.Ability to rapidly grasp concepts and excellent ability to handle complexity by simplifying it and providing clear directions to the teamAbility to manage and influence strategically and persuade tactfully, to acquire desired outcomes while maintaining effective, positive, organizational relationshipsComprehensive understanding of dynamics affecting the pharmaceutical industry and needs for transformationAbility to work globally including international travel.
