Senior Manager, Product Management (Planisware)

Senior Product Manager

Regenereon's IT team that supports the global development & clinical trials programs (GD IT) is seeking a strategic and execution-focused Senior Product Manager to lead the implementation and adoption of the Planisware platform. This role will be instrumental in driving the success of our multi-phase implementation, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and delivering scalable solutions for project, program, and resource management.

This role will partner with business functions across our clinical trails landscape to identify business challenges, propose solutions, provide leadership on projects, maintain and develop new solutions, and identify new opportunities for Planisware to meet the PPM needs across our clinical trials lifecycle.

This role can be based at either of our locations in Warren NJ or Armonk, NY and required to be onsite 4 days / week - this is not open to remote or hybrid work arrangements.

As a Sr. Manager, Product Management a typical day may include :

• Serve as the primary business lead for Planisware implementation, end-to-end support, performance, commitment to continuous improvement, collaborating with internal teams and external partners.
• Intake, assess, prioritize and validate functional specific needs / requirements including partnership with BSPs to ensure connectivity with partners.
• Own backlog grooming, sprint planning, and story acceptance in partnership with BSPs and Business Owners.
• Partners with GD IT Business Solution Partners, Functional Area Leads, Development Analytics & Data Science, Enterprise IT, and GD IT Operation Resources to ensure that business technology solutions are appropriately designed, planned, executed, and operationalized and to ensure seamless integration and data flow across systems.
• Define and evolve the product vision and roadmap for Planisware, aligned with enterprise goals and stakeholder needs.
• Translate business requirements into actionable product features and enhancements, and realistic, innovative system design solutions, prioritizing based on impact and feasibility.
• Own all technical changes related to system improvements including user testing activities.
• Facilitate workshops, demos, and feedback loops to ensure user needs are captured and addressed.
• Collaborate with other Product Leads in the Delivery and Operations team to drive consistency in approach and alignment across functional domains.
• Responsible for ensuring day-to-day product support meets business expectations and compliance requirements.
• Manage steering committee meetings, working groups, system change requests, issue management, and release management for upgrades to existing product.
• Ensure designs are well documented and socialized with technical teams to align on approach and future strategy.
• Monitor platform usage, performance, and business value delivery.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, automation, and enhanced reporting capabilities.
• Partners with Enterprise IT to ensure designs and solutions meet standards for security, privacy, and data protection.

This job might be for you if :

To be considered for this role you must possess a BS / BA Degree with 8+ years relevant experience or an MS / MBA Degree with 6+ years relevant experience with at least 3 years in enterprise Planisware PPM platform. System-specific and implementation knowledge - this includes but is not limited to product design, implementing solutions, in-depth technical knowledge, and integration of the product / software being implemented. Technical expertise in platform, product, and service knowledge is required. Proven experience leading large-scale platform implementations (Planisware preferred).