The Associate Director, Product Management for the Clinical Trial Financial Suite (CTFS) provides senior product leadership for a SaaS\u2011based platform supporting contracting workflows across clinical trials. This role is accountable for the successful launch, rollout, and adoption of the Contracting module, including launch readiness, customer enablement, and post\u2011launch optimization. This Associate Director will also partner closely with engineering, design, services, marketing, sales, and leadership to translate complex business, financial, and customer needs into scalable product solutions, and owns end\u2011to\u2011end product execution, cross\u2011functional alignment, and delivery of measurable customer and business value.\n \nEssential Functions:\n \nProduct Strategy & Roadmap Leadership\n\n Owns and leads delivery of the Contracting module within CTFS, including sponsor and site contracting, negotiations, and contract\u2011to\u2011financial traceability.\n Defines and executes the launch strategy for the Contracting module, including scope, success criteria, phased releases, pilot customers, and general availability readiness.\n Identifies and evaluates opportunities to incorporate AI\u2011enabled or intelligent capabilities (e.g., automation, decision support, agents, or workflow intelligence) to improve product efficiency, usability, and customer outcomes.\n Leads product planning and roadmap prioritization for Contracting, balancing customer needs, business objectives, technical constraints, and delivery capacity.\n Addresses organizational, technical, and capability barriers that impact product delivery, adoption, and realization of value.\n \nProduct Execution & Delivery\n\n Owns launch readiness activities for the Contracting module, including documentation alignment, release validation, operational handoffs, and coordination with implementation and support teams.\n Owns end\u2011to\u2011end product execution, including discovery, requirements definition, backlog prioritization, sprint readiness, release planning, and post\u2011launch optimization.\n Translates complex clinical, financial, and operational requirements into clear epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.\n Leads key product and delivery checkpoints, proactively managing dependencies, risks, scope trade\u2011offs, and escalations.\n Reviews development work for quality, completeness, and alignment with product requirements and enterprise standards.\n Facilitates effective defect triage and resolution to maintain product quality and customer confidence.\n Ensures delivered solutions meet enterprise SaaS standards for usability, scalability, security, compliance, and upgradeability.\n Provides guidance on configuration versus customization decisions to support long\u2011term platform sustainability.\n \nCross\u2011Functional & Stakeholder Leadership\n\n Partners closely with engineering, architecture, UX, services, compliance, and operations teams to ensure successful product delivery.\n Oversees and coordinates cross functional activities to ensure product initiatives are delivered on schedule and aligned with strategic priorities.\n Communicates product vision, roadmap, progress, risks, and trade\u2011offs to leadership and key stakeholders.\n Resolves complex product issues and coordinates appropriate escalation internally or with customers when required.\n \nDiscovery, Market & Customer Engagement\n\n Leads and contributes to product discovery, including customer interviews, workflow analysis, and validation of market needs.\n Partners with Marketing and Sales on Contracting product positioning, launch readiness, and messaging.\n Leads product launch support activities, including customer demos, trade shows, sales enablement, and early\u2011adopter feedback loops, serving as the Contracting subject\u2011matter expert.\n Monitors product performance, customer feedback, and usage data to inform continuous improvement and roadmap decisions.\n \nPreferred Experience / Domain Knowledge\n\n Strong experience delivering contracting or financial systems/products, such as contract lifecycle management (CLM), invoicing, billing, payments, credits/debits, reconciliation, or financial operations platforms.\n Experience owning or supporting product launches for enterprise SaaS products, including launch readiness, early customer adoption, and post\u2011launch iteration.\n Familiarity with clinical trial operations and contracting workflows, including sponsor finance, site contracts, investigator fees, or grants management.\n Experience with enterprise SaaS platforms in regulated industries, including considerations for compliance, security, scalability, and upgradeability.\n \nQualifications:\n\n Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\n 7\u201310+ years of experience in product management, product ownership, or business systems roles for SaaS products.\n Demonstrated experience leading delivery of complex, cross\u2011functional product initiatives.\n Strong ability to translate ambiguous business and financial problems into structured, executable product solutions.\n Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with engineering teams.\n Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision\u2011making skills.\n Experience in healthcare, life sciences, or financial platforms is a plus.\n \nIQVIA 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\n \nIQVIA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable law. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe\n \nIQVIA 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.\n \nThe potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $98,500.00 - $274,400.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.