Lead Product Manager - Data & Analytics

As a Lead Product Manager on the Wolters Kluwer Health Clinical Effectiveness team, you will drive strategic initiatives targeting high-growth segments, including Life Sciences, Digital Health, and Consulting organizations. This role focuses on developing innovative data and analytics-driven products that address the complex needs of these markets. By identifying industry pain points, market opportunities, and emerging healthcare trends, you will play a key role in shaping the future of healthcare through insights and technology solutions. 

This individual will lead primary and secondary research, competitive analysis, concept development, and early business case creation to inform the product strategy. Success requires strong analytical capabilities, a risk-management mindset, business acumen, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while working cross-functionally with engineering, design, data science, and subject matter experts. 

This is a high-profile role with significant exposure to senior leadership and direct impact on the company’s strategic direction in the Life Sciences and Digital Health Tech space. 

Additional Information: Evidence-based Clinical Solutions for Healthcare | UpToDate | Wolters Kluwer

Key Responsibilities 

• Define Product Innovation Vision: Establish and execute a product strategy tailored Data and Analytic solutions to support high growth segments such as Life Sciences, Financial, and Consulting, aligning with business objectives and industry needs. 
• Execute product development by collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the design, development, and launch of innovative solutions including managing product backlog, developing product requirements, user stories and report mockups  
• Experience in building data analytics products that combine the development of new datasets, delivered through web services architecture, with accompanying data visualization tools.
• Lead Research & Market Analysis: Conduct in-depth qualitative and quantitative research to uncover unmet needs, market gaps, and opportunities for innovation in Life Sciences, Financial, and Consulting. 
• Product Concept Development: Translate insights into viable product concepts, wireframes, and prototypes that optimize customer and user experiences. 
• Strategic Roadmap Execution: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize and develop a robust innovation roadmap that drives business growth, which serving as product owner 
• Manage product backlog – story writing, acceptance criteria, report mockups, new data fields needed.  
• Stakeholder & Customer Engagement: Lead customer interviews, focus groups, and strategic discussions with key stakeholders to validate concepts and shape solutions. 
• Pilot & Prototype Development: Partner with engineering and design teams to create and test early-stage product solutions, ensuring alignment with industry workflows and regulatory considerations. 
• Business Case & Commercial Strategy: Contribute to forecasting, pricing, and positioning strategies for new product concepts, ensuring market fit and financial viability.

• Bring understanding of Life Sciences, Financial, and Consulting to deliver products that empower organizations to make evidence-based decisions and achieve their strategic objectives. 

Other Duties 

• Participate in all relevant meetings and assume a leadership role in these meetings as needed. 
• Participate in all corporate training, company initiatives and performance planning exercises. 
• Other duties and special projects as assigned. 

Job Qualifications 

Education: A Bachelors is required.  Masters preferred.

Experience: 

• 7+ years of product management experience 
• 5 years of reporting and analytics
• Experience with Agile development processes 
• Experience with Lean Innovation 
• Healthcare product management experience
• Pharmaceutical experience preferred 

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications: 

• Demonstrated written, listening, and verbal communication skills required 
• Demonstrated presentation skills required
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external customers 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications 
• Ability to “self-motivate” in a fast paced, high growth environment 
• Ability to work independently 

The ideal candidate will be:

• Capable of collaborating with others within Wolters Kluwer Health Capable of learning and growing with the company and navigating a matrix organization
• Comfortable with visibility in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrate objectivity in their evaluation of a business problem  

Travel:

• 10% (approximately one trip per quarter)

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.