Senior Product Director in Bradford

We are excited to share that we are looking for a Senior Product Director to join our product team. This is a pivotal leadership role within our Product organization responsible for leading our Pharmacy & Medicines Product Portfolio, spanning six product lines across Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy and Medicines Optimization. It is an outstanding opportunity for you to evolve, lead and execute our long-term product strategy, drive innovation and deliver measurable impact for our customers and the wider healthcare system.

What you’ll do:

• Define and communicate a compelling long-term product vision for the Pharmacy & Medicines portfolio.
• Lead the development and execution of a multi-year roadmap aligned with NHS priorities and business strategy.
• Shape and influence strategic direction across product, commercial, and market-facing teams to ensure alignment with broader business objectives.
• Oversee the full product lifecycle—from ideation and business case development to delivery, performance monitoring, and retirement.
• Lead capital planning and budgeting across the portfolio, ensuring alignment with corporate planning cycles.
• Engage with strategic partners, pharmacy networks, and medicines optimization leaders to ensure product relevance and adoption.
• Lead go-to-market strategies including business case development, value proposition design, and implementation planning.

Who You’ll Be:

• Responsible for the Pharmacy & Medicines portfolio, we are looking for you to have a deep understanding of the healthcare market, including NHS structures, funding flows and regulatory landscape.
• Experience of operating at a leadership level is essential to enable your success in this role, along with proven experience working within healthcare innovation, digital health or transformation.
• Building credible relationships is key, you will interface with customers across the portfolio aligning the product strategy to customer needs and organisational strategy.
• Being a people leader will come naturally to you, as well has having the skills to influence and drive change within your peer group and wider teams across the organisation plus embedding complex processes with your product department.
• Experience in product development within healthcare, pharmacy or medicines optimization.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder programmes in a matrixed environment.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to align business goals with public sector value.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Familiarity with agile product development tools and practices (e.g., Aha!, Rally, GitHub).

At Optum, we are committed to providing an inclusive, equitable culture where people feel able to bring their whole selves to work and to reach their full potential. This is a foundation stone of Optum, anchoring the employee cycle from recruitment through to ongoing personal development and genuine, continuous two-way employee engagement, supported by our company values which determine everything we do.

Optum is an equal opportunities employer, and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law. We will always work to accommodate individual needs during your application journey. If you require any adjustments, please advise the talent team.