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At Elanco, we empower our product teams to solve complex challenges – both customer and business related – with solutions that drive impact. As a Senior Product Manager at Elanco, you will play a pivotal role in discovering and delivering digital solutions within a complex product area, ensuring they are valuable and viable, delivering meaningful outcomes that are aligned with corporate strategy and goals.
Your Role:
In this role, you will initially concentrate on enhancing Data Discoverability across Elanco, focusing on how to make data easy to find, easy to understand, and securely accessible to consumers from across Elanco, leading the way in enabling all decisions to be backed by sound insights. As part of a dynamic team, you will have the opportunity to broaden your impact by transitioning into other product spaces as new priorities and challenges arise. This role offers a unique platform to adapt and grow, aligning your career trajectory with evolving business objectives and emerging opportunities across Elanco's diverse product landscape.
Customer-focused: Work collaboratively with a broad range of customers in a product area to understand and identify problems to solve and create the best possible value. Recognized internally as an expert in customer needs for product area.
Research: Use research as a key input to uncover insights that contribute to product strategy and anchor decisions in data. Understand the competitive landscape and trends for product area.
Scope: Manage multiple or significantly complex products and/or oversee congruent product lines. Identify new opportunities within a product group for existing customers and markets.
Execution: Clearly articulate complex problem statements, with continuous refinement as more is learned. Efficiently steer team to explore multiple solutions led by a clear understanding of the problem area.
Communication: Communicate with the team, product leaders, and stakeholders frequently and effectively. Concisely and confidently represent a compelling vision and goals. Proactively anticipate needs or concerns and build communication strategy in response.
Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with all colleagues across our team and business. Proactively look for and champion opportunities for improvement.
Your Responsibilities:
Product Management: Evangelize product direction and vision, ensuring solutions are viable and valuable.
Deeply curious about product area and champions new ideas and initiatives – acting as a catalyst for change.
Ability to shape impactful strategies, create roadmaps, drive cross-functional alignment and execution to achieve business outcomes.
Applied experience in agile product development and modern product discovery and delivery methodologies.
Product Discovery: Advanced understanding and practical experience in product discovery techniques. In partnership with engineering and design, define minimum scoped product that is valuable, usable, feasible, and viable and:
Lead the discovery process by engaging with customers and users to validate product concepts.
Application of product discovery principles, competitive research, collaboration techniques, usability testing, A/B test design, and data analysis, and metrics tracking.
Product Optimization: Enhance the value of existing products by defining minimum viable product features and removing low-performing features based on thorough research.
Technical Proficiency: Experience with technologies and methodologies used in modern product delivery. Demonstrate initiative and curiosity for innovation, proactively bringing ideas resulting in differentiated outcomes for our business and customers.
Domain Expertise: Demonstrated learning agility to efficiently and effectively understand a product area and the relevant business processes, solutions, and external environment.
Compliance: Appropriately document, maintain, and provide evidence for product compliance across applicable regulatory controls (GxP, SOx, InfoSec, Privacy).
Agile Methodologies: Knowledge and practical experience in applying SCRUM/Agile methodologies for teamwork, progress measurement, and collaboration.
Vendor Management: Where applicable, partner with procurement and supplier professionals to select and manage vendor relationships instrumental in increasing product value.
Behaviours: Effectively demonstrate, model, and champion key behaviours that will contribute to our success:
Be a Proactive Problem Solver: Focus on the problem and feel empowered to discover a solution. Be an enabler, not a barrier. Own the entire problem, even if it is cross-functional.
Outcome Focused: Prioritise the outcome, not the output. An outcome is not achieved until it has been adopted, supportable and generating value
Assume Good Intentions: Challenge each other with respect and always assume good intentions. Seek to understand context before responding.
Be Curious and Tenacious: Demonstrate a desire to continuously learn, embracing and sharing modern concepts, techniques, technologies, etc.
What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):
Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., computer science, data science, business).
Required Experience: 10+ years technology experience
Learning Agility: Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new business domains
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):
Multiple years of experience as a product manager with a proven record of delivering valuable and viable solutions.
Proven ability to engage constructively with individual contributors and leaders at all levels.
Additional Information:
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status