Data Product Manager

About the Business Division:

This role sits within Doctors.net.uk, a subsidiary of M3 Inc. Doctors.net.uk is the UK's largest professional network of doctors; a closed community used by over 50,000 doctors daily and with a total membership of over 245,000. Products range from a trusted email communications platform to robust news and educational web pages along with our world-class sponsored pharmaceutical content and doctors’ own user-generated content. Our mission is to continually improve these offerings as well as identifying new ways to support our community of doctors throughout their careers.

As an M3 EU Data Product Manager you will be responsible for delighting our clients by developing innovative, market-leading digital data products.

This is a critical role in the Product Management function and instrumental in delivering M3 EU’s strategy and providing value to clients by bringing them closer to healthcare professionals.

You will represent the needs of the pharmaceutical industry and evangelise for your products both internally and externally, as well as being a great influencer and team player.

As part of your role, you will work closely with commercial and operational teams to gather and distil relevant customer insights to create compelling data stories that meet the needs of clients and support our commercial objectives, as well as and delivering on our short- and long-term business strategy.

You will be accountable for your product throughout the product lifecycle; from the discovery phase of ideation and inception to planning and execution of delivery and beyond.

In this role you will work closely with the Product and Data Engineering Teams to help deliver the product vision, strategy and roadmap. You will bring your vision to life by gathering and translating requirements that can be implemented by the data analysis and engineering teams to meet the needs of our clients.

This is an interesting and challenging role with an opportunity to put your stamp on the future direction of M3 EU’s commercial and internal data offerings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Including, but not limited to the following:

Lead new data product development projects and support continuous improvement

Be the “Voice of the Customer” for our client and internal reporting needs. Understand our clients, the market, and competitive and compliance landscapes.

Gather and analyse user data to define data product specifications. Validate that new features and product improvements meet the needs of the clients and stakeholders

Write and refine concise requirements/ user stories with acceptance criteria that convey the vision of what needs to be built

Initiate and foster strong relationships with stakeholders and internal clients. Prioritise and communicate the data product backlog based on the overall strategy, business objectives and deadlines

Support the development and UAT phases of the projects as required

Demo, communicate and evangelise the new product features both internally and externally

Reflect on outputs and outcomes to suggest improvements that contribute towards the overall product vision and strategy for M3 EU

Strong background in a Product Management role, preferably with experience in both B2B and B2C environments

In-depth understanding of both Waterfall and Agile software development lifecycles in a commercial/production environment

Strong commercial acumen with proven experience of bringing highly profitable data products to market. Proven track record of discovering, defining and implementing data product features

An understanding of the concepts of data warehousing and how data can be leveraged to gain business insights. SQL skills highly desirable

Data-driven and in possession of critical thinking skills to continuously improve approaches to achieve business goals as quickly as possible