Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

London, United Kingdom

We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy, vision, and development of innovative products that solve complex challenges across research and healthcare environments. This role is ideal for an experienced product leader who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, influence senior stakeholders, and identify opportunities where technology, data, and AI can create meaningful business and customer value.

You will play a key role in shaping product direction, validating new opportunities, making investment recommendations, and helping build AI-enabled products that deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

What You'll Be Doing

Define Product Strategy & Vision

• Translate business and PMR strategy into compelling product visions and actionable roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities where technology, data, and AI can create differentiated value rather than simply automate existing processes.
• Lead strategic prioritisation across competing initiatives, products, and investment opportunities.
• Balance near-term delivery requirements with longer-term platform and product objectives.
• Make informed product decisions in situations where customer evidence, market demand, or technology maturity may still be evolving.
• Understand dependencies across product portfolios and leverage shared capabilities to maximise value across multiple solutions.

Lead Product Discovery & Innovation

• Drive complex product discovery initiatives, helping teams define problems before solutions are known.
• Apply qualitative and quantitative research methods to understand customer needs and validate opportunities.
• Identify and test high-risk assumptions early to reduce uncertainty and improve investment decisions.
• Define MVPs and experimentation strategies that enable rapid learning and evidence-based decision making.
• Evaluate opportunities based on customer desirability, technical feasibility, business value, usability, and strategic alignment.
• Determine when to build, buy, partner, experiment, or discontinue initiatives based on outcomes and evidence.

Drive Commercial Product Success

• Understand how product decisions influence revenue growth, profitability, adoption, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation.
• Develop business cases and value hypotheses to support investment decisions.
• Assess opportunities against development effort, expected impact, commercial potential, and strategic fit.
• Partner closely with Offering Management and commercial teams to understand market needs, positioning, and go-to-market considerations.
• Contribute product insight, customer evidence, and capability expertise to pricing, packaging, and commercial discussions while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.

Shape AI, Data & Platform Strategy

• Help define and deliver AI-enabled products and experiences that improve both customer outcomes and internal workflows.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and distinguish between true sources of competitive advantage and rapidly commoditising functionality.
• Apply platform-thinking principles across APIs, shared services, data products, and integrated product ecosystems.
• Support responsible AI adoption by considering traceability, governance, explainability, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop processes.
• Identify opportunities where proprietary data, domain expertise, and workflow context can create sustainable competitive differentiation.

Lead Through Influence

• Build strong relationships across Product, Engineering, Research, Offering Management, and senior leadership teams.
• Create alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities and objectives.
• Communicate product strategy and complex decisions with clarity, confidence, and impact.
• Present product trade-offs, risks, and investment recommendations to senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Coach and mentor Product Managers and Product Owners in discovery, prioritisation, and outcome-focused product management practices.

What We're Looking For

Essential Experience

• Substantial years of product management experience with increasing ownership, responsibility, and strategic influence.
• Significant experience defining product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmaps, rather than solely managing delivery backlogs.
• Proven success launching, scaling, and evolving software, data, or AI-enabled products.
• Experience leading substantial product discovery initiatives where the solution was not known at the outset.
• Strong experience working with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, AI, data, UX, and business functions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and make product prioritisation or investment recommendations.
• Experience defining and measuring success through product outcomes and business impact, not just delivery milestones.
• Experience managing dependencies across multiple products, platforms, or complex technology ecosystems.
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or providing leadership to Product Managers and Product Owners.

Key Skills

• Strategic product thinking and roadmap development.
• Advanced product discovery and experimentation.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• AI, data, and platform product expertise.
• Executive stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation abilities.
• Strong analytical and decision-making capabilities in uncertain environments.

Desirable Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas would be highly advantageous:

• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, healthcare technology, or related industries.
• Primary market research, insights, research technology, or data and analytics solutions.
• AI, Generative AI, or machine learning product development.
• Building both client-facing B2B products and internal operational workflow solutions.
• Platform, ecosystem, or data-product development.
• Commercialising new technology-enabled products or capabilities.
• Working within regulated, governed, privacy-sensitive, or compliance-driven environments.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to influence the future direction of product strategy within a growing and evolving portfolio. You'll work at the intersection of healthcare, research, data, and AI, helping define products that deliver meaningful value to customers while driving business growth.

As a Senior Product Manager, you'll have the autonomy to shape strategy, influence investment decisions, mentor others, and lead the development of innovative solutions that can transform how research and healthcare organisations operate.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.