Senior Manager, Product Manager, R&D, Shanghai
Job Description
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Job Description
OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE (3-4 bullets)
The Product Manager role within the DQS and Global Regions DDT team, involves aligning business and technology stakeholders to develop and communicate the products vision, managing product planning and backlog prioritization, and ensuring a sustainable end-to-end customer experience globally. This position to support delivery of our DD&T regional China initiatives and positioning the org for growth.
- Product Strategy and Vision: Develops and conveys product strategy and vision in collaboration with stakeholders, aligning with business goals and technology directions. Maintains and communicates the product roadmap and backlog to ensure team alignment and delivery of value.
- AI Native and Localization: Consistently challenge how processes and therefore products can evolve to exploit AI and drive towards the workforce and products of the future. Fully leverage AI and digital tools in alignment with both global standards and the unique regulatory landscape in China
- Own product planning, including short-term release plans and long-term roadmaps
- Drive prioritization of the product backlog to keep the team unblocked and aligned
- Work with peers across R&D DD&T to continuously improve service processes, optimize applications, and elevate user experiences.
- Proactively oversee and optimize the end-to-end customer and business experience for the product, engaging stakeholders to enable successful and impactful releases.
SCOPE
Financial:
Est. annual revenue range of accountability*:
Oku Yen
Est. annual budget of responsibility:
Oku Yen
Leadership/People:
No. of direct reports:
0
No. of indirect reports:
1-10
Geographic Scope:
*if applicable
Global:
Regional:
R&D China & APAC
Country (-ies):
China
ACCOUNTABILITIES (Describe the primary duties and responsibilities of the job. Include only the essential functions of the job. Approximately 5 – 10 bulleted task statements should be identified).
- Define product vision, value proposition, and outcome metrics aligned to R&D China priorities and R&D Global DD&T strategy.
- Works within product budget established in consultation with stakeholders by balancing resources, vision development, and prototyping.
- Translate R&D China business needs into a prioritized roadmap balancing global platform reuse with China-required localization.
- Maintain product backlog, epics, and requirements; ensure clarity of scope, acceptance criteria, and benefits realization.
- Establish product governance, decision logs, and roadmap communication cadence with China and global stakeholders.
- Partner with Privacy, Legal, Security, Quality, and Compliance team in China to define controls and embed in product design.
- Continually monitors and refines the product and performing service management
CORE ELEMENTS RELATED TO THIS ROLE (Describe what is critical and/or what differentiates this role).
- Familiar with unique digital and AI regulatory landscape in China, especially Gen-AI
- Demonstrated success in delivering digital/AI solutions and maintain product portfolios in China
- Ability to navigate cultural and organizational complexity, particularly within the China affiliate context
DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS
Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise (Breadth and depth of knowledge, application and complexity of technical knowledge)
- Experienced product leader with deep product management expertise in the pharmaceutical sector.
- Fluent in product team ways of working, tools, and techniques, and able to clearly communicate and coordinate work with delivery teams.
- Able to operate across core enabling technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, machine learning) as needed to deliver product capabilities.
- Skilled at translating complex technical concepts into clear business language to bridge business and technical stakeholders across the product value stream.
- Understands the language the product teams use to conduct the business of the team, and is conversant with all the tools and techniques required to communicate with and send work to a team.
- Ability to operate within — the domains of any core technologies that the product requires to deliver capabilities (artificial intelligence or machine learning, for example) if required
- Is effective in translating technical language into business language as needed to bridge the gap between business and technical professionals engaged in the full product value stream
- Understands the business processes supported by the product and able to communicate with the relevant R&D teams
- Requires understanding of clinical trial delivery processes, product management in pharmaceuti-cal R&D, and the ability to bridge business and technical teams.
Leadership (Vision, strategy and business alignment, people management, communication, influencing others, managing change)
- Collaborate effectively with Product Engineers, Business System Owners, Solution Architecture and other stakeholders on a Ecosystem of Products, Platforms, Analytics and Microservices to give Takeda a modern footprint.
- Ability to present complex information clearly and with confidence with coaching/direction
- Strong communicator, able to convey both ideas and data, verbally and in writing
Decision-making and Autonomy (The capacity and authority to make organizational decisions, autonomy in decision-making, complexity of decisions, impact of decisions, problem-solving)
- Ability to evaluate and recommend the right technology platforms and software products to solve business problems.
- Demonstrates decision-making responsibilities within their team and function
Interaction (The span and nature of one’s engagement with others when performing one’s job, internal and external relationships)
- Embeds with product teams as needed to ensure full transparency and no surprises, keeping product stakeholders up to date with the latest on delivery status, product risks andscope changes.
- Reconciles perspectives on product strategy and priorities into a consensus that all stakeholders can support
Innovation (The required level of scientific knowledge, knowledge sharing, innovation and risk taking)
- Stay on top of new trends in the industry and understand how these new technologies may be applied to the product roadmap.
Complexity (Products managed, mix of businesses, internal and/or external business environment, cultural considerations)
- Is effective at conveying the product vision and other messages requiring action, in a way that brings people on board with the vision and builds their enthusiasm about fulfilling it
- When required to evangelize the vision into target communities or ecosystems, is effective in representing the product or platform within that community in a way that ensures all ecosystem partners feel heard, and well-served by the product vision.
EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS: (List the essential and desirable education and competency requirements to perform the primary responsibilities of the job. Any minimum requirements should be noted.)
- Bachelor Degree in scientific discipline, computer science or business administration
- 8+ years or more professional experience in R&D business lines, IT service delivery or related area..
- Professional in-depth knowledge of product management in pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in stakeholder relationship management. Influential in orchestrating key stakeholders and product teams to turn product vision into reality.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, business acumen, and enterprise knowledge.
- Understands design thinking
- Ability to demonstrate strategic and critical thinking, as well as problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and skills necessary to lead through change and influence without authority
- Ability to set priorities, deliver on deadlines and develop workflow processes and tasks in an evolving, dynamic marketplace.
- Work with virtual/agile teams in different locations, aligning and adapting different work, culture and communication styles.
- GxP experience in validating regulated applications and managing computer system validation (CSV) deliverables.
Preferred:
- Familiarity working in a lean and agile software delivery team
- accomplished practitioner of design thinking, with a proven track record of developing and exploiting deep customer insights