Product Strategist, Principal - Vendor Management

Your Role

The Product Strategy team is responsible for developing and executing impactful portfolio and product strategies that support short- and long-term financial and membership growth across lines of business. The Product Strategist, Principal - Vendor Management will report to the Sr. Manager, Product Strategy. In this role you will work closely across departments with product directors, managers, and market leads to identify and build a long-term vendor management and product portfolio. The Product Strategist, Principal - Vendor Management will establish a multi-year, enterprise roadmap to support supplemental programs and products, gain cross departmental support, foster adoption, and help operationalize new benefit structures through to market launch and vendor performance.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Healthcare, Public Health or other relevant degree; Master's degree highly desirable
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience in product management, preferably combined with management consulting
• Requires experience gathering and evaluating external competitor information and insights
• Requires experience with executing on product delivery timelines, within scope and budget
• Requires experience assessing potential opportunities, risks, and issues for their product area and making recommendations for improvement
• Experience developing, implementing, and managing products from concept to launch using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies strongly preferred
• Experience in contracting between vendors and companies
• Intellectual curiosity to follow industry trends and innovations as well as developing thought leadership
• Ability to effectively manage meetings and work regularly with a variety of senior stakeholders all the way up to C-Suite
• Advanced knowledge and mastery of Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Advanced quantitative and analytical skills and proven ability to make data-driven decisions

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