Product Development Director - CarelonRx

• Define product portfolio vision, strategy, and priorities aligned with business objectives, market opportunities, and portfolio goals.
  
• Translate product strategy into actionable roadmaps, governance expectations, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) execution plans.
  
• Lead product development initiatives from concept through launch, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, stakeholder expectations, and value realization goals.
  
• Drive Product Council readiness, PLM progression, launch planning, and governance activities to ensure timely execution and decision-making.
  
• Monitor product, financial, operational, and customer performance metrics to identify opportunities for optimization, growth, and innovation.
  
• Evaluate and refine product ideas by assessing strategic alignment, business value, customer impact, operational readiness, and portfolio fit.
  
• Lead Voice of Customer (VoC), market research, and competitive intelligence activities to inform product strategy and innovation efforts.
  
• Develop and guide go-to-market strategies, stakeholder communications, and launch readiness plans for new products and enhancements.
  
• Partner cross-functionally with Clinical, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Sales, Account Management, IT, Data & Analytics, and Operations teams to deliver product solutions.
  
• Provide executive-level guidance on strategic tradeoffs, roadmap priorities, resource allocation, timing, and escalation decisions.
  
• Serve as a product leader and subject matter expert, influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across a complex matrixed organization.
  
• Escalate strategic decisions requiring Product Head, senior leadership, business unit, or executive leadership team alignment while balancing customer needs, market opportunities, readiness, timing, and business value.
  

• Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM), health plan, managed care, or healthcare product experience preferred.
  
• Experience with product portfolio strategy, roadmap governance, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Council readiness, launch governance, and value realization preferred.
  
• Experience leading cross-functional alignment across business, IT, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Product Platform, Finance/Actuary, and Marketing preferred.
  
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, strategic prioritization, governance, problem solving, and decision-making skills preferred.
  
• Experience developing financial models, requirements, roadmaps, and concept materials preferred.
  
• MBA or advanced degree in Business, Healthcare Administration, or a related field preferred.
  

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Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities - and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

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We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

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