Product Manager - Technical

STERIS•Chicago, IL

29d

About The Position

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe. Position Summary This position is primarily focused on the technical aspects of product management. The candidate will have a great understanding of the product’s technical components and inner workings. They will have a mixture of upstream and downstream work centered on driving the growth of software products.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or other related field
3-5 years of experience working on a product team
Experience of working with Customers (healthcare users preferred) and software systems
Experience working with software development teams.
Experience in business process improvement
Experience developing training materials for software products
Demonstrated effective planning, organizational, and project management skills.
Proven organizational effectiveness across all related areas that impact assigned product line
Fluent in Microsoft Office Applications

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with networking concepts and hosting solutions for web-based products (Azure and SQL databases)

Responsibilities

Uncover and understand Customer needs and use them to develop and refine specifications for future product enhancements.
Ability to work well with internal and 3rd party development teams. Able to ensure requirements are communicated and fully understood and that execution matches business expectations.
Develop a strong understanding of how the overall solution and teams works together.
Lead the charge on helping to coordinate development activities across the different development and IT teams to prepare to go to market.
Ability to work with the different cross functional teams within the business and help them prepare for their role in supporting the new products and features.
Work closely with the commercial teams to increase product penetration and utilization through the development of tools, training, and programs that provide a seamless approach to selling value.
Collaborate with Education, Business Development, and Marketing Communication teams to create and maintain effective collateral, marketing lead campaigns, and sales tools.
Follow competitors and conduct analysis regularly
Provide prompt, comprehensive field support regarding application and use of products on an ongoing basis, including technical understanding.
Ability to assist in handling product related questions, security questions, and supporting the technical sales process.
Participate in sales meetings, conferences, and Customer events.