Product Developer

Job Description

Our client, a leading healthcare organization in Durham, NC, is looking to hire a Product Owner for their growing Sales and Marketing team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading large-scale, enterprise-wide Product Development initiatives and act as a thought leader for the generation of product ideas and carry through to product design, requirements definition, execution and launch to the market.

In this role you will be responsible for the following:

• Leading and developing ideas from inception through the different staged gates of the product development process through launch of the product to the market

• Identifying and evaluating new product opportunities (new products, enhancements to existing products, potential partners) to increase sales and profitability. Obtains agreement on the priority of product ideas by securing buy-in from senior leadership within Sales and Marketing

• Working cross-functionally across the enterprise to define and develop proof of concepts, business cases, product designs, business requirements, and functional specifications

• Identifying and evaluating potential vendor partners to leverage for product initiatives, negotiating contracts and drafting statements of work

• Presenting product designs and business cases to multiple levels within the organization, including the Executive Leadership Team, for approval in securing resources, budget, support and buy-in for the initiative

• Identifying and gaining leadership buy-in for the pricing strategy in collaboration with actuarial resources

• Identifying the marketing/launch strategy and plans in collaboration with marketing resources

• Updating appropriate product documents to account for the product changes, including the Product Standards and Guidelines, booklets, identification cards and benefit highlights

• Reviewing and approving marketing literature, training material, technical specifications, and test plans and results

• Responsible for final commercial success of product launches

• Developing and defining improvements to ongoing product development process

• Developing expert knowledge of competitive products and environmental factors

• Serving as a resource and product expert for enterprise