Senior Business Product Manager, Workflow Automation & Operations

About the position

The Senior Business Product Manager, Workflow Automation & Operations drives the development, adoption, and continuous improvement of digital-forward operational products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility while focusing on enhancing operational readiness and delivery through process optimization and automation. Partnering with the Business Product Owner, and Technical Product Manager, this role defines product roadmaps, gathers user insights, oversees User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and supports feature rollouts. This role is responsible for driving product strategy, execution, and lifecycle management to meet business needs and enhance overall operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker, adept at balancing long-term vision with day-to-day execution, and will excel at fostering cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful product adoption and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Business Product Owner to support the creation and prioritization of digital-forward product roadmaps, including experience, features, timelines, and dependencies.
• Partner with Technical Product Manager to drive the development and improvement of product(s) or specific product features, ensuring alignment with the overall product vision.
• Help evangelize the role of product(s) in achieving enterprise objectives, communicating their value proposition and roadmap(s) to senior leaders and organization-wide stakeholders.
• Act as point of contact and gather user insights, stakeholder feedback, recommendations, & feature requests to inform product roadmap.
• Collaborate with the Technical Product Manager to align business outcomes with technical feasibility, ensuring the product delivers both business value and technical performance.
• Define and oversee business process & drive user insights collection through User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure the successful implementation of new features and capabilities.
• Support the rollout of new features across new and existing users.
• Collaborate with Business Product Owner / Executive Director - Omnichannel Suite Lead to establish business standards & templates and ensure pull-through.
• Drive definition of business requirements for product usage & system health, leveraging GNE and industry standards.
• Drive experimentation to enhance product offerings, in line with the overall business learning agenda.
• Coordinate with business stakeholders, IT, and cross-functional enterprise product team partners to align on the product roadmap, fostering cohesive collaboration and unified efforts toward shared goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and IT partners to ensure successful product integration and execution.
• Closely partnering with Customer Experience professionals to ensure product experience meets the expectations of its end-user product community.
• Comply with all laws, regulations and policies that govern the conduct of Genentech activities.
• Drive continuous improvement of workflow automation tools and process optimization, leveraging technology and automation to enhance operational readiness and delivery, ensuring seamless execution and scalability.
• Lead process optimization initiatives while implementing solutions that improve operational delivery and enhance cross-functional collaboration.
• Champion the integration of work management/automation tools and best practices, ensuring streamlined, efficient processes that support product development and delivery, while maintaining alignment with business goals and enterprise objectives.
• Drive the development, adoption, and continuous improvement of digital-forward operational products.
• Partner with Digital Operations within and across suites to optimize operational workflows and improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Drive the integration of process automation tools across the enterprise to enable standardization and increase speed to market.
• Own the management and utilization of work management tools to coordinate and track project progress and deliverables and leverage data and insights to identify opportunities for process optimization across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive alignment and support to effectively ingrain operational initiatives.
• Manage budgets and resources to achieve operational goals within financial guidance.
• Maintain documentation for operational policies, procedures, and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, operations, science, marketing, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience, with 3 years in product management, digital product operations, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with sole ownership of tactics or product components, demonstrating the ability to articulate business problems, identify solutions, and drive execution from strategy through implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute product roadmaps, including feature planning, timelines, and dependencies, with a focus on work management and process optimization.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and rolling out new features across different user bases.
• Proven success in aligning stakeholders and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless product integration.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience driving experimentation and optimization.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to evangelize product vision and value across all levels of an organization.
• Proven ability to adapt and navigate ambiguous or evolving environments.
• Strong knowledge and experience of work management tools (e.g., Atlassian (Jira/Confluence), Trello, Smartsheets).
• Experience leading process optimization initiatives and driving operational excellence through the integration of technology and automation to enhance workflow efficiency and scalability.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree, or equivalent experience (e.g., MBA or related graduate-level qualification).
• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, or highly regulated industries.
• Ability to innovate and foster experimentation to improve product capabilities.
• Certification in process improvement methodologies (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean).
• Experience with process automation tools and methodologies (e.g., Robotic Process Automation(RPA), Business Process Management(BPM).

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and Company performance.