# Associate Director Product Management - NPI & Direct Procurement

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Associate Director Product Management - NPI & Direct Procurement role involves balancing business value, user experience, technical feasibility, cost, risk, compliance, and operational sustainability throughout the product lifecycle.

Key responsibilities include:

- Partnering with Business Process Owners, functional leaders, and users to understand strategic priorities and translate them into clear product outcomes.

- Defining and maintaining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for assigned products and capabilities.

- Developing outcome-based investment proposals and contributing to business cases.

- Setting prioritisation guardrails for Product Owners and making roadmap trade-offs.

- Guiding Product Owners and delivery teams to ensure epics, features, and releases remain aligned to product outcomes.

- Coaching Product Owners in discovery, backlog, and value-measurement practice.

- Partnering with Solution, Enterprise, Data, and Security Architects to assess solution options.

- Establishing and reviewing product performance measures.

- Ensuring product initiatives comply with required governance.

- Using approved AI tools in day-to-day work and leading the team in using them.

- Leading product-level vendor, platform, and solution evaluations.

- Managing product risks, technical debt, dependencies, adoption, and operational readiness.

The role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related discipline, typically 7+ years in product management, supply chain, or procurement technology, and experience in digital products and portfolio management, Agile, iterative, user-centred, and data-led delivery.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Data Analysis
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Prioritization
- Product Development Research
- Product Roadmapping
- Project Management
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Software Development
- Strategy Deployment
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI) Design

### Nice to have
- Product management, agile, supply chain, procurement, business acumen, change leadership, project management or portfolio management certifications

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