Senior Director, Commercial Product Development

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Job Details

This role is responsible for supporting the successful development, pilot, testing, and launch of new solutions. This individual will work directly with colleagues across functions to embed these solutions into the company DNA, integrating with existing solutions, processes, and company culture. The role will require significant collaboration & influence across internal company teams throughout core distribution, marketing, legal, compliance, communications, sales, sales enablement & training, and business owners.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities:

•  Develops and drives the strategic roadmap for the Procurement Platform, including prioritization of features and solutions that align with the company’s omnichannel and ecosystem strategy.
• Leads efforts to monetize the Procurement Platform, identifying revenue-generating opportunities and developing business models to capture value.
• Responsible for the design, launch, and management of an integration approach and framework for solution development, ensuring alignment with broader company objectives.
• Manages the development, testing, and implementation of a go-to-market plan, including product positioning, marketing, training, and implementation.
• Provides inputs into the strategic direction for the organization and supports policy implementation, ensuring alignment with platform goals.
• Drives understanding and hierarchy of solutions that directly address customer needs and works with internal teams to enable the sales organization to effectively sell those solutions.
• Works cross-functionally across ABC with the required teams (e.g., finance, operations, legal, product, marketing, sales, etc.) to assess resources and capital to enable rapid development and successful launch of key solutions across the platform.
• Ensures effective collaboration, communication, and socialization to drive the creation and implementation of a cohesive solution strategy and solution launch program.
• Facilitates and drives workshops, ideation sessions, and practical aspects of day-to-day innovation to identify gaps and translate needs into the development framework, including ideation and testing with customers when appropriate.
• Develops tools and processes to measure and monitor program implementation and process compliance.
• Partners with sales enablement, communications, training, and marketing, sharing best practices globally, both internally and externally, to position the Procurement Platform for successful launch and sustained growth.
• Guides the broader team in employing agile engineering, design thinking, and rapid prototyping to accelerate platform development.
• Owns capital requests and ROI justifications to ensure alignment with business objectives and financial goals.
• Performs related duties as assigned. 

Experience And Educational Requirements:

• Experience in product life cycle management including innovation, development, management and deployment from relevant industry backgrounds.
• Strong understanding of competitive offerings and industry trends; international markets knowledge/experience a plus.
• Proven project management, organization, and thought leadership skills with ability to build, lead, and maintain strong, productive teams and working relationships with internal stakeholders and external customers.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, establish priorities and work independently under pressure and with limited supervision.
• Comfortable in a global role; participating in regular meetings that span across time zones and take place outside of traditional business hours.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and presentation skills
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to develop and maintain business relationships
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across an organization
• Outstanding problem-solving skills and ability to apply the appropriate tools and level of analysis to a specific situation
• Strong organizational skills; attention to detail
• Strong computer skills in order to operate effectively with company systems and programs

What Cencora Offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Full time

Salary Range*

$156,300 - 241,010

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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Affiliated Companies:

Affiliated Companies: Centaur Services