Product & Portfolio Manager - Healthcare

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The Team 

The verticals team in logitech for business is involved in driving growth through the purposeful investigation and execution of logitech’s approach into specific industry verticals. Today the verticals being explored are Education, Government and Healthcare.

The Role

We are looking for a product & portfolio manager driven by curiosity around human needs, a deep-rooted focus and excitement in distilling relevant needs into hardware first experiences, and a pragmatic mindset around delivering these experiences in the form of products and services. 

You must be a driven self-starter, comfortable driving portfolio curation and initiating product development with small cross-functional teams as well as cross team with the PWS and TWS business groups.

You can articulate a clear vision assisted by your product leadership while adapting to a fast-paced market. Organization, ability to influence without authority, attention to detail, strong first principle thinking, and clarity around deadlines are critical for success.

Your Contribution:

Develop and refresh tailored, formally committed product portfolios for the vertical.

• Develop, maintain and prioritize key use cases for the vertical in conjunction with design organization (User, workflow, context, ecosystem, products).
• Developing and maintaining guidelines and rules that carry across the product portfolio evaluation and development of new products.
• Develop and maintain curated portfolios for the vertical (including gaps and opportunity areas to be addressed)
• Maintain competitive intelligence for curated portfolio by use case with design and marketing team and BGs.
• Develop business cases and drive "made for vertical" portfolio products agreed upon with product business groups.
• Work on evaluating the effectiveness of the existing portfolio
• Develop and maintain turnkey solution set by use case for each vertical including non logitech product categories
• Support marketing and sales enablement to drive sales through channel and DE

Vertical Roadmapping

• Develop and maintain a 3 year per business group product and feature-benefit roadmap from a vertical perspective along with business cases

Contribute to the framing & visioning of product development projects 

• to articulate the user is focused on their needs and translating these into design and product intent/principles.
• to take the product intent and principles and work towards a single direction for the product development to focus on.

Contribute to the product development from vision through launch

• Work closely with design, SMEs, program management, engineering, marketing, operations, and business development to define and detail product requirements.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, BG product & portfolio, and design teams to reach optimal tradeoff between the vision of the product experience, time to market, and product cost.
• Work with manufacturing partners in the development and review of prototypes
• Develop plans with consumer research for testing product/experience during development with internal and external users
• Work with extended cross-business groups and external partners where necessary
• Work with the go-to-market teams to detail out the business case and financial implication for the projects, and the customer support plans for the products.
• Contribute to gate reviews with program management and BG product management.

Key Qualifications:

• Direct experience in product/portfolio management as described above with at least one product or 5+ years of work experience in bringing multiple hardware/sw products to market in a functional role like engineering, QA etc. 
• Worked on consumer electronics products from concept to mass production through stage-gate processes.
• Cross-functional experience in working collaboratively with different teams in the development process

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong understanding of the product (hardware and software) life cycle process, engineering principles, design constraints.
• Rapid critical thinking
• Reasoned decision making
• Clear communication
• Proven ability to influence outcomes indirectly
• Some ability to transition between levels of abstraction
• Unbounded curiosity with a focus
• Empathy for the user with a view of the bottom line
• Adaptability to many situations like water
• Appreciation for the importance of the team’s success leading to long term product success

Education

• Undergraduate degree in business, engineering, product design, or related.
• Masters degree focused on business strategy, user experience, HCI

Alternative

• Learning experiences to demonstrate thinking along with evolution in skills and behaviors towards contributions needed for the role.

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Logitech is an amazing place to work because it is full of authentic people who are inclusive by nature as well as by design. Being a global company, we value our diversity and celebrate all our differences. Don’t meet every single requirement? Not a problem. If you feel you are the right candidate for the opportunity, we strongly recommend that you apply. We want to meet you!

We offer comprehensive and competitive benefits packages and working environments that are designed to be flexible and help you to care for yourself and your loved ones, now and in the future. We believe that good health means more than getting medical care when you need it. Logitech supports a culture that encourages individuals to achieve good physical, financial, emotional, intellectual and social wellbeing so we all can create, achieve and enjoy more and support our families. We can’t wait to tell you more about them being that there are too many to list here and they vary based on location.

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