Associate Director, CRM Product Owner

East Hanover, NJ (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expContract

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and deliver end-to-end CRM capability areas, from discovery through release and hypercare, by translating business needs into requirements, managing the backlog, and driving disciplined agile execution across cross-functional teams.

  • Lead end-to-end delivery for CRM capabilities and ensure release readiness
  • Translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and success metrics
  • Align stakeholders across business and IT to enable disciplined execution and adoption

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver a defined product area: Drive end-to-end delivery for a set of CRM capabilities (e.g., field productivity, customer engage-ment workflows, medical engagement) from discovery through release and hypercare.
  • Translate business needs into requirements: Partner with stake-holders to gather, document, and prioritize requirements; define user stories, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
  • Manage and refine the backlog: Maintain a healthy backlog (prioritization, refinement cadence, dependencies, definition of ready/done) aligned to quarterly/PI planning and stakeholder priorities.
  • Drive disciplined agile execution: Work with delivery teams to plan, execute, and track work; remove blockers; manage scope trade-offs; and ensure predictable, high-quality releases.
  • Improve processes and user experience: Identify pain points in cur-rent workflows and propose enhancements; validate solutions with users; and support change adoption with clear documentation and enablement.
  • Partner across business and IT: Coordinate with CRM product man-agers, architecture, analytics, privacy/legal, and commercial/medical stakeholders to align on requirements, sequencing, and release readiness.
  • Ensure governance, privacy, and compliance: Follow established governance processes and support risk assessments to ensure solutions meet regulatory, privacy, security, and data standards.
  • Mentor and coordinate delivery resources: Provide day-to-day direction to extended team members (e.g., analysts, contractors) and con-tribute to capability building across the product owner community.
  • Support change enablement and adoption: Partner with training and communications leads to ensure releases are understood, adopted, and measured; incorporate feedback into iterative improvements.
  • Communicate status and outcomes: Provide concise updates on roadmap items, risks, decisions needed, and measurable outcomes to product management leadership and stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in related field is required;
  • Master of Science and/or MBA preferred
  • Experience: Proven success in driving product management capabilities for large-scale CRM implementations.
  • 5-7+ years of experience in product management, technology strategy, innovation, or leadership roles, preferably in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or CRM sectors
  • Deep understanding of the CRM landscape (Sales, Marketing and Service), including Salesforce (Agentforce, Marketing Cloud, Health Cloud, Data360, Core platform), Veeva, and the major and evolving players in the ecosystem.
  • Understanding of CRM, AI, and Data platforms and architectures (e.g., Salesforce, Salesforce Data Cloud, Veeva, OpenAI, Snowflake, or similar data lake technologies).
  • Experience being accountable for the operations of product management including backlog health and prioritization, agile practices and ceremonies, and driving strategic innovation
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to build stakeholder buy-in and alignment
  • Experience in AI-supported product management techniques including LLM supported user-story creation and process mapping
  • Must possess an ability to foster cross-functional alignment of key stakeholders to create a disciplined, ambitious, and collaborative, global, commercial CRM strategy

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, 401k (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)
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Associate Director, CRM Product Owner

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