Pharmacy Product Manager (Remote)

Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record.

Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work.

Conexess Group is aiding a large healthcare client in their search for a Pharmacy Product Owner in a remote capacity. This is a long-term opportunity with a competitive compensation package.

Responsibilities:

• The Product Management Senior Advisor on the Pharmacy Technology Strategy Team will play a key role in managing portfolio initiatives for the Pharmacy line-of-business.
• Work closely with pharmacy business stakeholders across several operational domains such as Enrollment, Clinical Operations, Pharmacy Operations, and Pharmacy Benefit Manager.
• Manage a portfolio of pharmacy projects in various stages of the product life cycle.
• Be responsible for overall delivery of the capabilities across all domains within the project.
• Drive executive level understanding, building credibility and trust as the primary subject matter expert for Pharmacy Domain.
• Work efficiently with multiple internal and external stakeholders to overcome design, build and delivery challenges.
• Make day-to-day business decisions to manage project scope and budget to agree upon deliverables.
• Actively manage the program backlog and update on project progress to executive leadership as required.
• Provides counsel and advice to management on significant Systems Analysis matters, often requiring coordination between organizations.
• Under general direction, works on extremely complex issues/problems or assignments of large scope, impact, and importance.
• Analyzes, designs, and prepares application/system specifications for information systems solutions which address business needs and methods for testing and installing them.
• Formulates and defines system scope and objectives based on user defined needs.
• Devises or modifies procedures to solve the most complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
• Prepares detailed specifications from which programs will be written.
• Analyzes and revises existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary.
• May work with client management to identify and specify the complex business requirements and processes, and in the application design, testing, and implementation process.
• Has full functional knowledge of all phases of the software development lifecycle. Responsible for ensuring quality assurance review partnering with Quality Engineering team.
• Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines.
• Recognized internally as “the go-to person” for the pharmacy domain, with deep understanding across all operational areas.
• Collaborate with the business, compliance, and cross-functional IT stakeholders to define a roadmap that clearly defines the priorities and business value.
• Perform data related investigations, track lineage and quality issues, reviews data layout and structures.
• Facilitate source business owner review sessions and plan/execute E2E, integration, and data quality validations.
• Must have the ability to handle multiple and sometimes competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be a quick learner and a team player.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, working knowledge of Health plan, Pharmacy benefit manager or Health services experience strongly preferred.
• Certification as a Product management OR Product owner is preferred.
• Hands-on experience working on ALM tools such as JIRA, Rally, TFS, etc managing product and program backlogs.
• Demonstrated ability to organize thoughts and vision into presentation ready deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to quickly translate ideas and insights into presentation ready documents.
• Excellent meeting facilitation and organizational skills. Excellent presentation skills to leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to work with remote personnel to achieve agreed upon goals and objectives.
• Strong financial, analytical, quantitative and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated decision making capability.
• Comfort with complex systems and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently.
• Demonstrated ability to execute on multiple projects and excel in a results-orientated environment.
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUP’s etc).

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Product Management and Marketing

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting