We are looking for a Product Manager to guide the direction of a workforce-focused product serving healthcare organizations in San Diego, California. This Long-term Contract position will shape strategy by connecting customer needs, operational realities, and measurable business outcomes across staffing, finance, HR, and clinical leadership. The ideal candidate brings strong product judgment, a deep understanding of workforce-related challenges, and the ability to turn complex insights into a clear product path that delivers meaningful value.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead product direction by ensuring the team focuses on meaningful customer and business problems rather than feature delivery alone.<br>• Build a strong understanding of workforce planning, staffing operations, nursing leadership, finance, HR, and vendor management to inform product decisions.<br>• Convert customer pain points, market opportunities, and desired outcomes into a practical product strategy and sequencing approach.<br>• Evaluate and prioritize high-impact opportunities such as unified data visibility, confidence in staffing data, demand forecasting insight, supply optimization, guided decision support, cost control, workflow collaboration, and compliance support.<br>• Define and track success measures tied to business impact, including staffing efficiency, labor cost reduction, internal fill improvement, forecasting adoption, and confidence in workforce data.<br>• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across operations, finance, IT, legal, compliance, and leadership to align on direction while maintaining focus on user needs and outcomes.<br>• Use discovery methods such as interviews, assumption testing, prototype evaluation, concierge testing, and business-case analysis before committing to complex product investments.<br>• Apply data fluency to challenge inconsistent metric definitions and clarify how key workforce measures are interpreted across teams and facilities.<br>• Make informed prioritization decisions in ambiguous situations and identify the best entry point for product adoption and value creation.<br>• Connect product performance indicators to broader organizational results such as reduced agency spend, lower avoidable overtime, faster staffing gap resolution, and less manual reconciliation effort.
<p>Our client is a rapidly growing healthcare technology consulting organization that partners with hospitals and healthcare systems to deliver IT consulting and advisory services. Following a recent merger, the company is entering an exciting phase of integration and growth, creating opportunities for professionals who enjoy building processes, driving operational improvements, and making a meaningful impact.</p><p><br></p><p>This position can be remote for the right candidate, but a strong preference exists for Southern California candidates. <strong>If applying remotely, please confirm you either have:</strong></p><p> a.) experience implementing a new contracts management system from the ground up</p><p>OR</p><p> b.) experience in the healthcare or IT consulting industry.</p><p><strong>Without one of these things, candidates outside Southern California will not be considered.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>This is not an entry-level position.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Position Overview</strong></p><p>The Contracts Manager will serve as the central point of coordination for the company's contract lifecycle management process. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys <em>creating structure </em>(not being told what to do) in evolving environments and can <em>confidently establish best practices where processes may still be developing</em>. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in dynamic environments and enjoys building structure where it does not yet exist. This position is not suited for someone who requires highly structured daily direction or extensive supervision.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Review, prepare, and redline a variety of commercial agreements, including:</li><li> Master Services Agreements (MSAs)</li><li> Statements of Work (SOWs)</li><li> Vendor agreements</li><li>Manage contracts throughout the entire lifecycle process</li><li>Coordinate reviews and approvals among legal, finance, operations, and business stakeholders</li><li>Track contract status and ensure timely execution</li><li>Serve as the primary administrator for contract management processes and systems</li><li>Evaluate, select, and implement a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform</li><li>Develop and document workflows, procedures, and best practices</li><li>Maintain contract records and reporting within the selected system</li><li>Partner with outside counsel when legal review or negotiations are required</li></ul>