Intermedia Group

Leading consumer insights and innovation initiatives to inform product development and strategic planning. | Extensive experience in consumer research, innovation, and team leadership, but lacking specific experience in competitive intelligence, healthcare, and advanced data analysis tools. | About the position Our client, a leading medical device manufacturer is seeking a Senior Manager – Global Competitive & Market Intelligence (CMI), reporting into the Vice President – head of Global Competitive & Market Intelligence (CMI), to join the team and drive strategic insights that shape business decisions across global markets. This role is pivotal in enabling the firm’s leadership to anticipate market shifts, understand competitive dynamics, and identify growth opportunities. Responsibilities • Strategic BU Engagement: Partner with senior business stakeholders to identify and prioritize critical competitive and market intelligence needs. • Problem definition: Translate key business questions into analytical problems that can be answered with combination of internal & external data sources • Data analysis: Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis incl. advanced analytics and modeling to identify patterns, trends, and foresight signals from large data sets • Insight Generation: Independently come up with key hypothesis and second order insights into the drivers of market trends and competitive performance • Cross functional collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Corp. Strategy, Finance, BU strategy & leadership) to integrate insights into strategic decision-making • Storytelling & Communication: Craft clear, compelling storylines and deliver insights into BU and corporate leadership to influence strategic priorities. • Project Leadership: Develop workplans and execute projects independently, collaborating closely with BU and corporate leadership teams. • Process Excellence: Define and implement repeatable, streamlined processes and methodologies for Business Units (BUs) to execute competitive and market intelligence activities effectively. Requirements • Experience: Minimum 5 years with a strong understanding of the business landscape, key data sources, and insight generation required. • Healthcare industry experience preferred. • Education: Bachelor’s degree required. • Master’s degree in business, data science or related field, or MBA preferred. Nice-to-haves • Experience in competitive intelligence, market research, or strategy roles within healthcare. • Must have experience with primary and secondary research methods and have experience conducting bottom-up market modeling • Must have experience using competitive intelligence tools: please ask candidates about any experience they have using CapIQ, Pitch Book, Alpha Sense • Must have experience developing rapport with senior business leaders and presenting bottom-up market modeling information to senior business leaders • Familiarity with global healthcare trends, competitive dynamics, and regulatory environments. • Strong ability to work with big data environments, including data ingestion, transformation, and analysis using advanced tools • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed organization

Manage and prioritize the software product backlog, collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver value, and ensure product quality and stakeholder satisfaction. | Requires a Bachelor's Degree or Pharmacy Technician Certification, 5+ years of experience, and domain knowledge in healthcare or pharmacy, with proficiency in Agile tools and processes. | OPEN JOB: Senior Product Owner – Pharmacy Automation LOCATION: Durham, North Carolina • **This position may require up to 20% travel. SALARY: $110,000 to $125,000 Ideal Candidate • Ideal candidate will be LOCAL and willing to work in-office 4 days per week and one remotely. • Bachelor’s Degree or Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT) required DETAILS: We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to join our client’s R&D team within Pharmacy Automation team to serve as a subject matter expert in their field with depth and breadth of experience, knowledge, and skills. The Pharmacy Automation portfolio covers a wide range of hardware and software technologies from storage and dispensing robots, vision solutions, pouch packagers, vial filling systems, blister card production systems as well as central fill solutions and enterprise pharmacy management software solutions. As a Senior Product Owner, your top three primary responsibilities will be: • championing product management strategies via the elicitation and refinement of software product requirements, • collaborating with Software Delivery Leads to solution software product requirements into features and stories, and • delivering solutions to market that delight our customers and drive business value. Key responsibilities include: • Manage the software product backlog consisting primarily of features, stories, and product defects to ensure that the work defined for the development team is meaningful to the customer, yet realistic and attainable. Balance candidate scope items via prioritization in collaboration with the cross-functional core team. Consider risk factors that could affect scope, schedule, and/or resources, and inform adequate contingency plans for potential issues. • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Software Delivery Leads, and Core Team Members to manage portfolio scoping, coordinate release activities, and partner for value delivery. • Champion product quality via constant collaboration with the engineering and QA teams to ensure timely, quality delivery of product increments. • Perform the requirement engineering process throughout the software development life cycle which includes eliciting, documenting, analyzing, and harmonizing functional and non-functional requirements. • Support agile processes such as sprint planning, feature and story reviews and estimations, and incremental delivery. • Play an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of release and sprint goals, providing governance for change management, and recommending adjustments to plan when necessary. • Facilitate scoping of software requirements to align product roadmaps with scope delivery. • Lead system design reviews for assigned portfolio, gather inputs from other functions. • Support quality by ensuring the testability of requirements and the ongoing review of test cases and defects. • Lead verification and validation with user acceptance testing for their cross-functional project team which includes UAT planning, execution, and reporting. Support beta launch activities including site selection, authoring success criteria, and documenting outcomes. • Liaise with the Service and Support teams to ensure escalations are managed and defects are triaged, prioritized, and remediated. Provide third-line support to diagnose and resolve production issues. • Execute work within company processes and procedures including engineering tools (requirement management, escalation management, etc), Design Controls, Product Lifecycle Management, Configuration Management, Phase Reviews. • Act as a key contributor in a complex environment while working independently with minimal guidance. • Contribute to Intellectual Property generation that protects the portfolio and improves market position. • Share expertise with others. • Follow our competitors and our industry; keep abreast with Agile/Scrum standard processes and new trends. Skills and Experience • In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles; experience working in Lean/Agile software development teams • Experience using product management and development operations tools such as Aha!, Azure DevOps, or Jira • Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills • Excellent organizational and time management skills • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills • Creative thinker with a vision • Attention to detail • Domain experience in Pharmacy or Health care Qualification Requirements • Bachelor’s Degree or Pharmacy Technician Certification (CPhT) required • 5+ years of applicable experience If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please respond back and include the following: • MS WORD Resume • required compensation. • Contact information. • Availability Upon receipt, one of our managers will contact you to discuss the position in full detail. Stephen Fleischner INTERMEDIA GROUP, INC. Email: sfleischner@intermediagroup.com LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevefleischner/