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 Work

​In this role, you will:​

• Have an understanding of employer insurance customers: their needs, priorities, and preferred buying preferences
• Identify market trends, customer needs, clinical innovation, and competitive opportunities to inform product strategy
• Develop a 1-3 year strategic vision to support insurance programs/products and go to market approach
• Incorporate elements of human-centered design and design thinking into the design of health benefits to facilitate healthcare navigation
• Partner effectively with key stakeholders and leaders (sales, Health Solutions, Digital channels, Product Operations, etc.) in evolving a strategic vision for supplemental benefits
• Intermediate to advanced data analysis including use of pivot tables, charts, data tables, sensitivity analysis, financial modeling, and charting
• Effectively understand how to productize and monetize vendor capabilities to be sold and packaged for clients
• Strive to effectively socialize strategic vision while gaining alignment and building consensus with senior leaders and key stakeholders 
• Once strategic vision is adopted, coordinate workstreams and liaise with cross-functionals team (sales, operations, network, digital, customer experience) to deliver on overarching strategy
• Develop meaningful and practical metrics to assess overall impact and success of the product 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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