Astellas Pharma Inc. is looking to grow its Digital Product Management chapter to support strategic initiatives, specifically within the Rx Pod of the HealthX Hub. This involves exploring, developing, and delivering patient-facing Digital Health solutions for Astellas' pharmaceutical brands, translating business/brand/patient needs into digital health product strategies and roadmaps, and leading the development of these solutions from prototype to post-launch evolution.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing digital products end-to-end – from strategy and roadmap creation to development, launch, and optimization.
- Specific product management experience in Digital Health solutions, ideally with experience of working with and assessing the potential impact and value of Digital Health technologies and solutions for pharmaceutical companies.
- Skilled in developing product requirements and translating technical and non-technical information for diverse stakeholder groups, including senior leadership.
- Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience in using project management tools.
- Strong understanding and experience of Agile working principles and practices.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Digital Health landscape, including industry level challenges and opportunities, regulatory environment and frameworks on a global and country specific level.
- Proven experience in leading teams and executing extensive strategic programs centered around digital solutions within large, complex, and heavily regulated organizations.
Responsibilities
- Explore, collate, and translate patient, brand, and business needs into Digital Health product opportunities and initiatives.
- Lead and own product strategy and road mapping activities for Digital Health product initiatives, aligning with brand objectives, business goals, and market needs.
- Lead a cross-functional value team(s) through the full digital product lifecycle - from landscaping, ideation, prototyping, development, testing, to launch and continuous improvement based on user feedback and performance metrics.
- Act as the voice of the customer, identifying user pain points and opportunities through research and feedback, and advocating for value creation through development/deployment of Digital Health products.
- Define clear product requirements, prioritize features, and manage agile development cycles, ensuring rapid iteration and progress, high-quality delivery, and strong alignment between brand stakeholders and technical teams.
- Monitor product performance, using analytics and user engagement data to drive continuous improvement, optimizing product iterations and output quality.
- Stay current with Digital Health advancements and industry trends to innovate and maintain competitive advantage in product opportunity mapping and strategic development considerations.
Other
- Manage stakeholder communications and help champion Digital Health product initiatives aligned to strategic and broader organizational objectives.
- Collaborate with legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, and security, as appropriate, to ensure adherence to relevant regulations in pharma (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.).
- This position may require travel domestically and/or internationally.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems/Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or related experience.
- Effective communicator with strong leadership, collaboration, organizational skills; comfortable working across global, cross-functional teams.
