Director, Product Strategy Job Description
Director, product strategy
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Director, Product Strategy Duties & Responsibilities
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Develop the product marketing program and strategy for complex institutional fixed income products, including product messaging and positioning
Engage broadly across product teams and functions such as Finance, Pricing/Interchange and Marketing to understand drivers of performance and collaborate on business optimization
Identifies key authors (existing and new) around which to create product and product launches--will determine appropriate products and create and execute launch strategy in coordination with other departments
Study and evaluate industry trends specific to USWA and client feedback to assess product positioning, to inform potential new product offerings in close coordination with iShares product development
Help define and position iShares’ competitive advantage in the retail ETF landscape
Collaborate with training teams to ensure a thoughtful program of new iShares product training, continuing education and effective competitive positioning that aligns clearly with product priorities
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Build and present competitive analysis – offering key points of differentiation for the Institutional audience
Utilize expertise to participate in development of asset class campaigns
Contribute and in some cases lead commercial activities for pipeline programs
Director, Product Strategy Qualifications
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Employers hiring for the director, product strategy job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in MBA, Business, Management, Leadership, Software Engineering, Communication, Computer Science, Technical, Marketing, Engineering
Skills for Director, Product Strategy
Desired skills for director, product strategy include:
Reimbursement
Strategic planning
Business financial practices
Financial management
Healthcare
Insurance
Insurance administration
Marketing
Operations in healthcare markets
APIs
Desired experience for director, product strategy includes:
Flexibility to accommodate moderate travel requirements
Demonstrated ability to develop creative, effective solutions to complex financial problems
Works well on a team and independently on short and long-term projects and knows how to prioritize
Willingness Cogent, effective writing, communication and presentation skills are essential
And ability to thrive in a hands-on, rapid growth investment environment
Knowledge of Market Data tools a plus (eVestment, Morningstar )
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Director, Product Strategy Job Description
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Our growing company is looking for a director, product strategy. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for director, product strategy
- Coordinate and collaborate with product management, marketing, and commercial teams to develop go-to-market plans that identify opportunities and growth strategies across geographies, vertical industries, channels, use cases, and market segments
- Manage product marketing budgets and spend against goals and objectives
- Lead market research/commercial insights efforts for selected pipeline programs
- Develop and achieve country plan objectives through Client initiatives, specifically payment volume (PV) and International Cash Targets
- Co-ordinate and present business development and product implementation opportunities to Client banks
- Achieve specific Client product and volume targets
- Be proactive in managing strong and influencing relationships with AP HUB counterparts and local peers
- Ownership of Consumer Debit product requirements in market with the responsibility to ensure that these requirements meet market needs
- Develop strategy to target and grow the Core Debit segment
- Leadership to implement new product services
Qualifications for director, product strategy
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex investment product development initiatives
- CFA or similar advanced studies in investment disciplines required
- CFA, CAIA preferred but not required
- Anticipates and avoids common problems
- BS in business, science or related field required
- Knowledge of hem-oncology areas a plus
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Our company is looking for a director, product strategy. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for director, product strategy
- Monitors the US Healthcare environment to understand how our pricing decisions may impact future access and utilization of our products
- Responsible for all Product budgets (A&P) and managing/expensing and forecasting of same
- Development and management of Consumer Debit reporting for Australasia
- Lead the prioritization, business casing and execution of new product initiatives, including, value proposition definition, investment justification and prioritization, pricing and economic value distribution
- Communicate and generate support for recommendations from Product leadership and other business leaders across the company
- Support urgent client / executive requests, including analysis, strategic framing and options evaluation
- Identify, structure, and manage complex issues to quickly arrive at recommendations that drive product priorities and demonstrate results to leadership
- Manage implementation of business growth initiatives, including performance tracking, strategic resource allocation and investment governance
- Work with limited direction and with tight deadlines, usually within a complex and often ambiguous environment, to develop rigorous, fact-based recommendations to senior product management while supporting syndication with stakeholders across the company
- Work closely with corporate strategy, business development and R&D to support market development efforts in new TA including hem-oncology, transplant and complement/immunology
Qualifications for director, product strategy
- Experience in competitive intelligence and market analytics projects
- Prior orphan drug development experience is a plus
- Prior BD experience is a plus
- Prior brand launch and commercialization experience is a plus
- Creative thinker, solutions and results-oriented, customer focused, and excellent analytical discipline
- Strong modeling and analysis skills, including mastery of relevant tools like Excel, Tableau
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of director, product strategy. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for director, product strategy
- Partner with senior leaders across experience design, engineering, marketing, game teams, and technology to deliver world-class experiences
- Represent commercial at the GDT (global development team) for pipeline assets
- Lead Early commercial team (ECT) meetings to gain cross-functional buy-in and alignment on market preparation and value creation activities
- Contribute to the preparation and refinement of commercial plans and commercial strategy for pipeline programs pre-PST (Product Strategy Teams)/pre-Phase III
- When required, drive or contribute to commercial projects of pipeline assets under a different ECT leader
- Work effectively with other functions such as Medical Affairs, market access, HEOR
- Contribute to the evaluation and due diligence efforts for programs related to transplant, hem-oncology, complement and gene therapy
- Present commercial views at governance forums e.g Pipeline committee, in-line committee
- Ensure that existing asset allocation, alternative investments and custom solutions are appropriately positioned within their respective institutional channels and help identify new opportunities for future product development
- Managing the strategic prepaid initiatives and plans across AP markets by planning, coordinating and ensuring implementation of activities consistent with the established policies, goals and objectives
Qualifications for director, product strategy
- Strong attention to detail and process management
- Degree from top-tier institution in an analytical discipline or similar academic / professional experience
- MBA is a plus, but could also be substituted by solid experience as a product manager
- Typically requires 8-10 years total experience in Product Strategy, Management Consulting, Banking or Finance roles
- Proven track record of success in fast-paced environments with demanding timelines
- Experience partnering with technologists using Agile or other rapid development methodologies a plus, but not required
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of director, product strategy. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for director, product strategy
- Works with sales and marketing to build plans for new products, including business to business client service and customer service including customer acquisition, underwriting process, and ongoing customer support
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders, to execute the overall Association product strategy including product ideation and concept development, packaging, pricing, sales alignment and marketing plans
- Identify growth opportunities and strategies for regional product teams to evaluate and execute the growth of the prepaid business in AP
- Managing, collecting and distributing the priorities set by the focus markets to grow prepaid
- Execute on defined product development efforts for strategic segments, as prioritized across AP, to enable core product differentiation, drive scheme preference and incremental revenues year-on-year
- Create content delivery models for, card holders benefits, issuer and merchant benefits
- Create educational services and tools for card holders, issuers and merchants
- Manage strategic infrastructure initiatives regarding increasing acceptance, load options leading to increased card usage
- Managing operational expenditure budgets according to forecast to ensure accuracy of spend
- Constantly seeking feedback from stakeholders and the market for improvement
Qualifications for director, product strategy
- Organization, high energy, self-motivation, history of working well in a global team environment
- Eight or more years of investment management experience
- At least 10 years of relevant pharmaceutical or biotechnology experience, including experience in new product development
- Ability to complete the analysis, craft the message and materials, then deliver well thought-out recommendations to Product Leadership, including mastery of relevant tools like Powerpoint and Word to develop compelling storylines
- Typically requires a minimum of 15 years progressively responsible business experience with experience in card payments industry, mobile industry or card processing preferred
- Proven track record in leading a high performing team, and setting clear priorities
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Our growing company is looking to fill the role of director, product strategy. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for director, product strategy
- Develop and help oversee the maintenance of Ad Sales marketing materials, including one-sheets, presentations, case studies
- Collaborate with Marketing to create relevant content to train and communicate our product capabilities, value of our offerings and what makes ODC unique
- Regularly updating the models and distributing the new releases to the marke
- Training new staff on the model
- Provide key input in the formulation and preparation of multi-year plan strategy
- Act as mentor and coach in supporting the prepaid hub team members by collaborating cross functionally, leading by example and raising the standard of work and deliverables
- Lead consumer research and regulatory research to support prepaid strategic initiatives
- Full-stack product ownership of end-to-end booking system handling over 45 million transactions a year in over 80 countries
- Defining long term booking product strategy translated into multi-year plans & short term roadmaps (30/60/90 day plans)
- Leading product management teams responsible for traveler & client UX, business & application logic, and supplier connectivity including GDS & Direct Connects
Qualifications for director, product strategy
- Exceptional project management skills with ability to drive consensus in cross regional and cross functional teams
- Fluency in English and Spanish is required, Portuguese highly desired
- Creative approach to product development and differentiation
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and frame new and complex issues - a serious thought leader that can make strategic choices and help focus the organization on the most critical and value-added activities
- Experience facilitating
- Exceptional business acumen and curiosity