Specialty Product Manager, Global Diagnostics

Zoetis•Parsippany, NJ

2d•Remote

About The Position

Accountable for assigned products, owning the product roadmap, vision, and strategy from cradle to grave, including budget guidance. Bring strong project leadership capabilities to coordinate cross-functional work, maintain momentum, and drive execution of roadmap priorities. Incorporate inputs from subject matter experts (SMEs) on a Cross Functional Product Team (CFPT) to define problem statements and prioritize product backlog. Lead the CFPT and sub-teams in product break-fix needs, constant maintenance, performance improvements, and delivering enhancements and innovations that create long-term customer value. Able to influence colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives through the use of data and logic. Attune to customer needs in veterinary medicine and their experience using our diagnostic products to be better positioned to delight our customers and improve animal health with product features.

Requirements

3+ years in Product Management, product development role, or equivalent industry experience
Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing
Proven ability to engage with SMEs and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship
BA/BS degree in a scientific discipline or business
Must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis.

Nice To Haves

MBA, DVM, PhD or other advanced degree preferred, but not required
Supporting vendor relationships
Travel both domestically and internationally (up to 20%)

Responsibilities

Define problem statements and product vision + strategy, and maintain product backlog by conducting continuous product discovery, aligning with Commercial teams on product financial and strategic goals, knowing the product users, product operations, and connecting the two into clear product requirements, monitoring product performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), providing ROI assessments for projects and understanding when to make tradeoffs in investing between projects and features, bringing on-the-ground feedback into the product backlog with a long-term strategy in mind, putting emphasis on continuous improvement and prioritization, and delivering on open items in product backlogs with a planned release schedule.
Lead CFPT and sub-team collaboration by guiding empowerment of these CFPTs to make key decisions, assigning team-level Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), working effectively with other functions within Zoetis, clearly communicating priorities, decisions, and next steps to keep projects moving forward, owning meeting cadence, agenda discipline, tracking, and follow-through across teams, identifying and leveraging team members to come up with creative solutions to solve customer problems, and holding teams accountable to results.
Be an internal advocate, product expert, and product evangelist: Driving all facets of product experience in new product launches across global markets, supporting customer, colleague, and company preparation efforts, and helping transfer materials and expertise to the commercial and medical teams. Communicating regularly with Commercial, Medical, and Support teams on product update and deployment plans, including creating documentation needed to assist with training and service. Tracking industry trends and the competitive landscape. Operating as product owner in the ZTD software release process. Working with a network of research veterinarians and/or experts in a variety of veterinary disciplines. Partnering with Zoetis Business Development (BD) and GMS External Supply/Procurement to negotiate or re-negotiate agreements, if applicable to the product.