[Hiring] Senior Product Manager, Strategic Growth @Cardinal Health

Role Description

The Sr. Product Manager, Strategic Growth for Clinical & Procedural Workflows is responsible for understanding clinical user experience and workflows across all healthcare environments of care, including operating room (OR) and procedural spaces. The role assesses clinical needs, workflow variation, market dynamics, customer priorities, and emerging innovations to define clinical and procedural workflow strategies, identify portfolio expansion opportunities, and translate validated customer and clinical-user problems and desired outcomes into product concepts and requirements. The role leads complex projects from discovery and business case through proof of concept (POC), then collaborates with the Platform Product Management team through build, commercialization, launch, and adoption to enable business growth.

This individual contributor applies advanced product, clinical workflow, procedural care, and technical knowledge and leads through influence with no direct reports. The role works closely with Platform Product Management teams, Engineering, Architecture, Data & Analytics, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, and other cross-functional stakeholders to deliver differentiated clinical and procedural workflow advancements aligned to the product portfolio strategy.

Responsibilities

• Clinical and Procedural Workflow Strategy and Market Development:
  • Research clinical user experience and clinical workflows across healthcare environments of care, including OR and procedural spaces, customer needs, market trends, projections, competitive dynamics, and emerging innovations to define unmet needs and leading-edge product opportunities.
  • Develop workflow strategies and product concepts that advance supply chain intelligence, automation, efficiency, visibility, and clinical or operational integration for healthcare providers.
  • Evaluate portfolio expansion opportunities using market size, barriers to entry, differentiated value, regulatory assessment, portfolio alignment, customer value, and business growth potential.
• Product Concept, Requirements, and Business Case:
  • Translate validated workflow opportunities into product concepts, target outcomes, detailed requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success criteria using agile methodologies.
  • Develop and present business cases and stage-gate recommendations, including value proposition, market opportunity, investment, financial assumptions, risks, dependencies, and strategic fit.
  • Use customer evidence, prototypes, pilots, analytics, and technical feasibility to refine requirements and recommend build, partner, buy, scale, iterate, or defer decisions.
• Product Development and Commercialization:
  • Lead complex product development projects of large scope from initiation through closing, independently determining methods while aligning to overall project objectives, timelines, quality, investment, and desired outcomes.
  • Establish or coordinate commercialization strategies including product pro forma, branding and sales strategy inputs, communication vehicles, training, pilot-site deployment, customer engagement, and launch readiness in partnership with accountable functions.
  • Coordinate Engineering, Architecture, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Finance, and other stakeholders through requirement, POC, development, validation, launch, and adoption.
• Launch, Growth, and Continuous Improvement:
  • Operationalize product launches through coordinated customer engagement, implementation readiness, enablement, support, adoption planning, and performance monitoring as required.
  • Monitor customer adoption, workflow value, market response, quality, financial performance, and product outcomes; translate evidence into optimization, expansion, or lifecycle recommendations.
  • Recommend new practices, processes, metrics, models, policies, or procedures that improve product development effectiveness and may set precedent; mentor less experienced colleagues.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• 8+ years of product management experience, preferred.
• Healthcare supply chain, inventory management, clinical workflow, EHR/ERP knowledge, medical device, or clinical experience preferred.
• Strong Agile product development experience and ability to work effectively with engineering, design, architecture, data, security, privacy, quality, regulatory, legal, procurement, finance, and operations.
• Strong analytical, writing, facilitation, presentation, negotiation, relationship management, and stakeholder leadership skills.
• Ability to travel approximately 20–30%, based on product, and customer needs.
• Customer/Vendor credentialing may be required (this may include vaccinations) --additional details will be provided if selected for the interview process.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs