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Here's what we're looking for:
Here's what we are looking for:

As one of the Business Product Managers for Chronic Remote Care Management, you will be a member of the Chronic Remote Care Management International Business Team. The Business Product Manager is a critical role in ensuring the success of our vision to build and bring innovative solutions to our customers in the (relevant) settings. The Business Product Manager will execute on a product strategy and own the holistic product vision and delivery within the business team.

This position will be responsible for gathering deep customer insights and developing accurate product and feature requirements for new product introductions that leads to desired outcome. They will develop a winning value proposition for the product to deliver customer requirements and ultimately be in charge of developing the business plans, competitive strategies, pricing analyses, sales/revenue forecasts, product positioning plans and launch plans. They will lead cross-functional teams’ alignment, so as to guide the focus of the experts and squads. As such, you will closely work with other product managers and cross-functional stakeholders across Roche Diagnostics Global & Affiliate organizations.

You will be responsible for:

Driving the Product Roadmap, Vo C, and KOL Engagements:

• Develop and communicate a comprehensive product roadmap highlighting outcomes
  
• Discover a product that is useful and feasible by conducting user research and incorporating the insights into new product ideas. Gather deep customer insights and develop accurate product and feature requirements for new introductions.
  
• Cultivate networks with key opinion leaders in the industry as well as with key stakeholders within the company for idea generation and adoption
  
• Distill key questions needing answers to make product feature and pricing decisions; select and guide appropriate market research projects to answer those key questions
  
• Heavily utilize data insights, market and customer research, and your product intuition to continually improve the product
  
• Identify opportunities and generate ideas for growth and strengthening the performance of our product through new features that leverage the organization’s infrastructure to provide unique and lasting customer value
  
• Test new ideas and features with internal customer to rapid discover and refine them before making them available commercially to external customers.
  

Establishing Segmentation & Product Support

• Tailor features in the product to meet the needs of the target customer segments.
  
• Support and provide guidance on the creation of marketing collateral
  
• Work with key internal departments to help resolve product design issues and own trade-off decisions
  

Developing Business Case

• Forecast revenue or savings opportunities associated with product development initiatives; create business cases and present to stakeholders including up to executive management
  
• Participate in and influence the development of pricing strategies
  
• Lead OKR creation for the product line and in alignment with business leadership, product, and other cross-functional stakeholders
  
• Evaluate product sales performance and make enhancements as required.
  
• Assess potential new business models and opportunities with Commercialization, Marketing and Affiliates.
  

Executing on Product discovery & delivery and foster collaboration

• Drive new product launches
  
• Align and influence cross functional team on a product level mission and roadmap that require problem solving, information analysis and synthesis, and the ability to persuade and influence others
  
• Act as a key externally focused contact for internal functions
  
• Collaborate frequently with stakeholders to develop and share information about product launch, competition, and technology upgrades as appropriate, and to gain information about the market landscape and customer needs
  
• Clearly communicate plans, insights, data, and results to a spectrum of audiences including executives, product teams, and other decision makers across the company.
  
• Conduct customer visits, produce trip reports, following the continuous discovery techniques
  
• Travel % required: Up to 30%
  

Your profile

• 7+ years of of sound marketing and sales experience in the healthcare, health tech, or personal health app industry on a local, regional or global level
  
• High degree of subject matter expertise:
  
  • Scientific or Medical as well as software market background, business acumen, and experience in chronic disease management desired. Experience in diseases such as CV, metabolic, renal, or neurodegenerative a plus
    
  • Deep understanding of the Health Tech industry, lifecycle & development process and global trends
    
  • Past experience of working in an affiliate and/or global marketing leadership roles
    
• Leadership and people development:
  
  • Proven ability to inspire and motivate teams to make a big impact and deliver their best every day
    
  • Consistent record of building collaborative relationships with peers and teams, helping cross-functional teams address strategic opportunities and solve problems across the organization
    
  • A desire and openness to learning and continuous improvement, both of yourself and your team members
    
• Management skills:
  
  • Experience leading, motivating, coaching people and teams to drive customer focus in our mindset, work priorities and collaborative behaviors
    
  • Evidence of strong strategic thinking, communication, planning and organizational skills required, e.g., through experience successfully leading and executing strategic initiatives
    
  • Able to foster positive partnerships through effective influencing, negotiation and conflict management skills to achieve alignment up and down the organization
    
  • Commitment to the organization’s new way of working through greater collaboration and breaking down of siloes
    
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, including clear, succinct and timely communication and proven ability to foster and build important relationships with customers and key stakeholders
    
  • Ability to navigate within a changing organization, maintaining objectivity, respect for differences of opinion, fairness, open communication and consensus building skills
    

Leadership Skills:
You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective matrix-leadership for a global team, doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead your global team to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of Roche and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision.

The BPM is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are:

• Put patients first
  
• Follow the science
  
• Act as one team
  
• Embrace differences
  
• Accelerate learning
  
• Simplify radically
  
• Make impact now
  
• Think long term
  

Here’s what you can expect from us:

• Ambitious and passionate people building meaningful products
  
• An innovative working environment allowing for collaboration with really smart people and knowledge sharing in cross-functional teams
  
• Loads of benefits (brand new Apple hardware, fitness, public transport, lunch benefit, language classes, professional training budget, chance to join global conferences...)
  
• Flexible working hours, home office policy and 5 weeks vacation
  
• A kick-ass office with a rooftop terrace, fully stocked kitchen and amazing barista coffee machines in the middle of Vienna… oh, and did we mention the best team in the world!
  

Locations
You will be based in Vienna, Austria. At the Company's discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances.

As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

In Austria, we have a legal obligation to disclose the minimum salary according to our collective agreement, which is gross €3.455 - per month for this position. But! Rest assured, we offer amazing competitive compensation packages which take into consideration current market trends, therefore you can expect a higher offer that reflects your experience level.

Interested? Great! We’d like to hear from you! Please submit your resume, cover letter, and whatever else you would like to share!

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.