Product Owner - SalesForce CRM

job summary:

seeks an accomplished product management leader with experience and demonstrated success transforming CRM capabilities within commercial operations. Strong innovation, partnership, and intellectual maturity are needed. A comprehensive understanding of best practices in CRM Data and AI applications is key to success in this role.

Additional qualifications are as follows:

Data 360 (Data Cloud)

- Proven success in driving product management capabilities for large-scale CRM implementations.

- 5-7+ years of experience in product management, technology strategy, innovation, or leadership roles, preferably in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or CRM sectors

- Deep understanding of the CRM landscape (Sales, Marketing and Service), including Salesforce (Agentforce, Marketing Cloud, Health Cloud, Data360, Core plat-form), Veeva, and the major and evolving players in the ecosystem.

- Understanding of CRM, AI, and Data platforms and architectures (e.g., Salesforce, Salesforce Data Cloud, Veeva, OpenAI, Snowflake, or similar data lake technologies).

- Experience being accountable for the operations of product management including backlog health and prioritization, agile practices and ceremonies, and driving strategic innovation

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build stakeholder buy-in and alignment

- Experience in AI-supported product management techniques including LLM sup-ported user-story creation and process mapping

- Must possess an ability to foster cross-functional alignment of key stakeholders to create a disciplined, ambitious, and collaborative, global, commercial CRM strategy

location: East Hanover, New Jersey

job type: Contract

salary: $62 - 85 per hour

work hours: 9am to 4pm

education: Bachelors

responsibilities:

- Own and deliver a defined product area: Drive end-to-end delivery for a set of CRM capabilities (e.g., field productivity, customer engage-ment workflows, medical engagement) from discovery through release and hypercare.

- Translate business needs into requirements: Partner with stake-holders to gather, document, and prioritize requirements; define user stories, acceptance criteria, and success measures.

- Manage and refine the backlog: Maintain a healthy backlog (prioritiza-tion, refinement cadence, dependencies, definition of ready/done) aligned to quarterly/PI planning and stakeholder priorities.

- Drive disciplined agile execution: Work with delivery teams to plan, execute, and track work; remove blockers; manage scope trade-offs; and ensure predictable, high-quality releases.

- Improve processes and user experience: Identify pain points in cur-rent workflows and propose enhancements; validate solutions with us-ers; and support change adoption with clear documentation and ena-blement.

- Partner across business and IT: Coordinate with CRM product man-agers, architecture, analytics, privacy/legal, and commercial/medical stakeholders to align on requirements, sequencing, and release readi-ness.

- Ensure governance, privacy, and compliance: Follow established governance processes and support risk assessments to ensure solu-tions meet regulatory, privacy, security, and data standards.

- Mentor and coordinate delivery resources: Provide day-to-day direc-tion to extended team members (e.g., analysts, contractors) and con-tribute to capability building across the product owner community.

- Support change enablement and adoption: Partner with training and communications leads to ensure releases are understood, adopted, and measured; incorporate feedback into iterative improvements.

- Communicate status and outcomes: Provide concise updates on roadmap items, risks, decisions needed, and measurable outcomes to product management leadership and stakeholders.

- Contribute to product strategy and continuous improvement: Bring market/industry insights, user feedback, and performance data to inform roadmap recommendations and operational improvements.

- Maintain platform and domain awareness: Stay current on CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Veeva) and evolving best practices; apply learnings pragmatically within the Novartis ecosystem.

qualifications:

accomplished product management leader with experience and demonstrated success transforming CRM capabilities within commercial operations. Strong innovation, partnership, and intellectual maturity are needed. A comprehensive understanding of best practices in CRM Data and AI applications is key to success in this role.

Additional qualifications are as follows:

- Proven success in driving product management capabilities for large-scale CRM implementations.

- 5-7+ years of experience in product management, technology strategy, innovation, or leadership roles, preferably in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or CRM sectors

- Deep understanding of the CRM landscape (Sales, Marketing and Service), including Salesforce (Agentforce, Marketing Cloud, Health Cloud, Data360, Core plat-form), Veeva, and the major and evolving players in the ecosystem.

- Understanding of CRM, AI, and Data platforms and architectures (e.g., Salesforce, Salesforce Data Cloud, Veeva, OpenAI, Snowflake, or similar data lake technologies).

- Experience being accountable for the operations of product management including backlog health and prioritization, agile practices and ceremonies, and driving strategic innovation

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build stakeholder buy-in and alignment

- Experience in AI-supported product management techniques including LLM sup-ported user-story creation and process mapping

- Must possess an ability to foster cross-functional alignment of key stakeholders to create a disciplined, ambitious, and collaborative, global, commercial CRM strategy

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and make informed decisions

- Ability to adapt strategies and approaches in a rapidly evolving technological land-scapeLeadership Competencies

Navigate complexity

- Enable impactful and fast decision-making.

- Identify key issues in complex situations, keeping focused on the big picture and adapting and prioritizing during change.

- Demonstrate long term vision by taking a broader view, thinking through indirect consequences and longer-term implications.

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.