Senior Technical Product Manager

The Purpose of the Role

Collaborate closely with customers, business development team and company stakeholders to identify and assess innovative products, features, and technologies that continuously advance our healthcare portfolio and address evolving customer needs.

Take ownership of the SSG clinical healthcare product portfolio, with responsibility for the product strategy, new product development roadmap and product life cycle from product specification, introduction, launch, through to maturity and obsolescence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor emerging healthcare technology trends and innovations to uncover strategic opportunities and anticipate potential threats.
• Working with other stakeholders to provide extensive analysis of products, customers, markets and competitors that will enrich our business intelligence and inform our decision-making for future projects.
• Understanding & influencing industry standards, legislation and certification requirements. Evaluate their impact on our product portfolio and identify changes, improvements or NPD required to maintain or enhance our competitive position.
• Working closely with the business development team to generate value propositions / USPs, inform marketing briefs, and develop comms strategy for new and existing products.
• Defining, managing and communicating the product life cycle for products in the clinical healthcare systems portfolio.
• Develop the new product roadmap of the clinical healthcare systems portfolio in line with the company’s key strategic initiatives.
• Taking the role of customer champion for product development activities to ensure that user requirements are identified, prioritised and delivered appropriately.
• Manage and coordinate product releases with the business development team, sales, product design and production teams.
• Support sales and marketing with product-related inquiries, including customer presentations, workshops, and training.
• Provide commercial and technical product training for in-house and partner sales teams.

Skills/Experience

• Demonstratable product management experience of IP based products, ideally with experience of SaaS and cloud connectivity.
• Innovation: produces fresh and imaginative ideas and solutions; breaks away from tradition; promotes change and novelty; eliminates non-valued added activities.
• Teamwork: co-operates well with others; shares knowledge, experience and information; supports others in the pursuit of team goals; values differences.
• Effective Communication: communicates in a clear, precise and structured way; speaks with authority and conviction; presents effectively. Able to communicate technical solutions to a wide audience.
• Influence: challenge and influence others; make an impact; convince and persuade others to promote plans and ideas successfully.
• Initiative and Responsibility: acts on own initiative, makes things happen and accepts responsibility for the results.
• Professional Expertise: demonstrates specialist knowledge and expertise in own area; participates in continuous professional development.
• Time Management and Prioritisation – demonstrates skills in time management and delegation; prioritises according to demands and allocates resources effectively; can multitask.
• Analysis and Problem Solving: quickly understands and analyses complex issues and problems; comes up with sound and rational judgments to ensure the right decision is reached.
• Delivery – drives towards achieving results and holds others accountable to commitments

Benefits:

• You will enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package.
• You will work with a diverse team of talented professionals who share your passion for healthcare,
• technology and applying it to solve customer problems.
• You will have opportunities for career growth and development through personal achievement, mentoring and training.
• SSG operate a flexible working policy.
• Being part of a team that supports the NHS, nurses and patients.
• Bonus scheme
• Pension scheme and Salary exchange
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, 1 additional day is accrued from 5 years’ service onwards up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays.
• Death benefit scheme 4 x annual salary.
• Long service awards for 10,20 & 25 years (£50, £150 & £500).
• Vouchers for birthdays and Christmas.
• Simply Health Benefit (company-funded at level 1, upgrades available) – employees can claim money back towards the cost of medical check-ups, appointments, and treatments to help keep them physically and mentally fit.
• Employee Assistance Programme and on-site trained mental health first aiders.
• Halma Share Incentive Plan.
• Regular company social events – summer & Christmas parties and seasonal celebrations.