Associate Director – Product Management

Associate Director – Product Management (Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud)Job Type: Long termLocation: Local to a Publicis Sapient office (EST/CST)Work Model: Hybrid (3+ days onsite per week)Start Date: ImmediateAbout the RoleClient is seeking an experienced Associate Director – Product Management to lead a large-scale Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud transformation for a leading consumer products company. This is a senior leadership role responsible for driving CRM strategy, solution architecture, and enterprise-scale implementation while partnering with business and technology stakeholders.The ideal candidate combines deep Life Sciences domain expertise with extensive Salesforce implementation experience and a proven ability to lead cross-functional delivery teams.Key Responsibilities:Lead enterprise Salesforce transformations across commercial operations, patient services, and field excellence initiatives.Provide end-to-end solution design and architectural leadership for Salesforce CRM engagements.Drive business strategy, requirements gathering, process design, implementation, and user adoption.Translate business requirements into scalable Salesforce solutions.Lead platform modernization initiatives and migration planning.Design enterprise-grade Salesforce CRM solutions and technical architectureDevelop and oversee Salesforce customizations using Salesforce Lightning Platform and Force.com technologies.Guide data migration, system integrations, and platform customization efforts.Lead Agile delivery teams throughout requirements, build, testing, release, and deployment.Manage both onshore and offshore technical teams while ensuring successful project execution.Produce and maintain functional and technical documentation for business and engineering stakeholders.Required Qualification:10+ years of consulting or industry experience delivering CRM or customer engagement platforms within the Life Sciences industry.7+ years leading Salesforce implementation programs.Successfully delivered at least 3 full lifecycle Salesforce implementations as Program Lead or Delivery Lead.Hands-on experience with Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud.Strong understanding of Life Sciences commercial operations, including.Field Force ManagementCall PlanningSample ManagementTerritory AlignmentApproved EmailClosed Loop Marketing (CLM)Commercial workflowsExperience leading enterprise-scale Salesforce transformation initiatives.Strong understanding of both business processes and Salesforce technical architecture.Experience supporting Agile software delivery methodologies.Experience with:Salesforce Lightning PlatformApexVisualforceForce.comSalesforce integrationsData migration strategiesSalesforce customizationPreferred ExperienceExecutive stakeholder managementEnterprise CRM modernization programsCross-functional leadership across business and technology teams.Strong communication and consulting skills.