Product Manager, Medical Labs

Description:

As Product Manager, Medical Labs, reporting to the Director of Product Management, you will guide a virtual team that is charged with product line contribution as an individual business unit. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company. You will build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market with customers to understand their problems, and find innovative solutions for the broader market.


You must be able to communicate with all areas of the company. You will work with engineering counterparts to define product release requirements. You will work with product marketing to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.


A product manager's key role is mostly strategic but there are tactical responsibilities as well. The other organizations within ANX will support your efforts.


ANX successful enterprises embrace collaboration as a critical core competency. They understand that collaboration drives efficiency, innovation, customer satisfaction and profitability. Breakthrough levels of collaboration occur when information sharing is intuitive, fast, comprehensive and secure. ANX was built from the ground up to help companies unleash the power of collaboration. ANX delivers "Collaboration as a Service" using a fully managed service approach.


ANX core competencies include:


  • Deep technical knowledge
  • Broad experience as a provider of mission-critical data connectivity and transaction solutions
  • A passion for customer support and, a proven record of enabling collaboration across multiple value chains

ANX provides an innovative suite of managed services including: Managed Network Services, Transaction Services and Lifecycle Management Services.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
  • Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by on-going visits to customers and non-customers.
  • Developing well-defined test plans, and performing functional and performance tests on ANX and competitor products. Exposing architectural strengths and weaknesses of these products and their associated services.
  • Developing technical solutions to complex problems
  • Producing technical white papers, design guides, and presentations about ANX and how services and products work together
  • Describing and evangelizing technical solutions; Delivering technical presentations to sales force, internal stakeholders, end customers, and channel partners
  • Identifying limitations with ANX products and communicating those limitations and new features requirements to Product Managers (PMs) and Development Engineers
  • Driving a solution set across development teams (primarily Development/Engineering, and Marketing Communications) through market requirements, product contract, and positioning.
  • Working across the complete organization to work on overall security roadmap.
  • Managing / maintaining relationships with different development organizations throughout the company.
  • Analyzing potential partner relationships for the product.
  • Supporting "Request For Proposal" (RFP) responses from a product roadmap perspective when needed.
  • Maintaining a leadership role within product team

REQUIREMENTS / SKILLS

  • Solid experience in networking technologies (IP, TCP, UDP, routing, switching)
  • Strong technical knowledge of information security technologies, security threats and current security solutions
  • Strong ability to build relationships among sales, marketing teams, and customers
  • Ability to work cross-functionally within ANX and with customers
  • Ability to deliver and develop technology demos
  • Strong customer facing skill sets
  • Demonstrated success in product launches and end-to-end execution of marketing strategies
  • Proven experience in developing product configurations comprised of technical application architecture, infrastructure and network components
  • History of product management accomplishments and initiative
  • Ability to write clear market-driven product requirements
  • Must be able to manage large projects and break them down into workable units
  • Experience developing relationships with suppliers and co-marketing partners highly desirable
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access)

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

  • Minimum 5+ years of technical product management experience, including 2+ years working with security products from development through launch and sales ramp up
  • BA/BS in Marketing or Business related field required. Marketing MBA a plus

LOCATION

The position is preferred in Raleigh, NC but can be in Southfield, MI or Austin, TX



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