Director, Operations IT - Product Management

Introduction to role

Are you ready to guide the success and delivery of strategic technology products from conception to operation? As the IT Senior Product Manager, you'll create a compelling product vision and drive business value, bridging technology, business, and user experience. This role blends a product-focused approach with agile methods to consistently deliver value and ensure that technology strategies align with business objectives. You'll oversee product vision and execution, promoting collaboration, innovation, and ongoing improvement as a leader, facilitator, and coach.

Accountabilities

• Product Vision & Strategy: Collaborate closely with stake holders to develop, articulate, and share the product vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring alignment across engineering, design, and business teams.
• Serve as the primary product orchestrator responsible for driving product innovation and ensuring value delivery.
• Develop product-focused delivery teams and adopt agile methodologies to continually enhance the product through iterative improvements.
• Manage the product backlog, translate business needs into detailed requirements, and prioritize features based on business value, user feedback, and technical feasibility.
• Financial Accountability: Oversee Product finance, including forecasting, budget management, and timely accruals.
• Define and track Key Performance Indicators (critical metrics), measuring both value and outcomes as desired with investment cases.
• Act as the primary point of contact between business leaders and engineering/technical teams. Lead vendor management, including negotiation of deliverables, acceptance criteria, and costs.
• Risk & Compliance Management: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks (technical, market, project) and ensure compliance with internal and external regulations (e.g., GxP, if applicable).

Essential Skills/Experience

• Ability to manage senior stake holders and build IT Product vision and roadmaps.
• Extensive experience leading the delivery of medium to large-scale IT Products and programs (USD 5M+ or teams >15).
• Proven accountability for IT Product finance, including forecasting and timely accruals.
• Hands-on, practical experience both in leading product teams and in applying modern tools and methodologies such as Agile.
• Strong product-centric mindset with experience managing the product lifecycle (e.g., Concept to DevOps, backlog prioritization, KPI analysis).
• Background in manufacturing, supply chain, and/or quality domains (GxP, MES, etc.).
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, with experience engaging C-level executives.
• Strong vendor management capabilities.
• Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Ability to use data and user feedback to make decisions.
• User Empathy: A customer-centric outlook.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Familiarity with GXP, GCP practices.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, our work has a direct impact on patients by transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak by combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. With a passion for impacting lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning, and more, we are at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Here you can innovate, take ownership, experiment with innovative technology, and begin challenges that have never been addressed before. Join a team that has the backing to disrupt an industry and change lives!