Director Product Portfolio - Life Sciences

Director, Product Portfolio – Life Sciences

Lexis Nexis is seeking a Director to lead portfolio strategy, investment planning, and product execution across our Life Sciences business. This leader will shape a next‑generation regulatory intelligence, data management, workflow, and submission platform that enables customers to move faster, stay compliant, and operate with greater confidence across global markets. It is a portfolio leadership role for an experienced product executive who can connect customer outcomes, portfolio choices, platform strategy, and commercial impact.

Lead the Life Sciences product portfolio strategy across regulatory intelligence, data, workflow, artifact generation, validation, and submission-related capabilities.

Translate a long‑range portfolio vision into a pragmatic, staged roadmap tied to measurable customer and business outcomes.

Define and prioritize the highest‑value customer problems to solve, especially where better regulatory change detection, impact assessment, workflow orchestration, and compliant execution can create meaningful differentiation.

Drive product portfolio rationalization and consolidation, ensuring overlapping capabilities are simplified, modernized, or absorbed into a more coherent platform experience rather than expanded in parallel.

Partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, Design, Data/AI, Services, Sales, Customer Success, and senior business leaders to align strategy, sequencing, trade‑offs, and execution.

Establish clear portfolio investment priorities and product operating rhythms, including annual planning, roadmap governance, business cases, KPI tracking, and outcome reviews.

Champion a product model that balances customer‑centric experiences above the surface with shared capabilities below the surface, including data models, validation, workflow/state management, integration, analytics, and AI services.

Shape the Life Sciences AI strategy in partnership with technical leaders, focusing on intelligent workflows, explainable decision support, governed automation, and future agentic capabilities that operate safely inside regulated processes.

Work directly with customers and prospects to understand regulatory operations pain points, validate product‑market fit, and ensure the roadmap is grounded in real‑world workflows across labeling, submissions, compliance, and lifecycle change management.

Build clarity where complexity exists: turn broad themes and fragmented backlogs into a focused strategy with explicit choices, sequencing, ownership, and expected impact.

Lead, coach, and elevate product managers and cross‑functional teams, setting a high bar for strategic thinking, customer empathy, analytical rigor, and execution discipline.

• Create a sharper, more coherent Life Sciences portfolio strategy tied to a small number of high‑value customer outcomes.
• Translate that strategy into a credible 12–24 month roadmap that balances revenue protection, platform modernization, and differentiated growth bets.
• Improve alignment across Product, Engineering, and Commercial teams by making trade‑offs explicit and tying investments to business value.
• Advance the consolidation of legacy and overlapping capabilities into a more unified platform model.
• Help bring to market customer‑visible capabilities that demonstrate progress toward the long‑term platform vision, while strengthening the underlying architecture and operating model.
• Establish stronger portfolio metrics around customer value, speed, adoption, retention/expansion, capability reuse, and roadmap execution.

• 10+ years of product management experience, with significant time leading complex B2B software portfolios, platforms, or multi‑product businesses.
• Several years in a senior product leadership role with ownership for portfolio strategy, roadmap, investment decisions, and cross‑functional execution.
• Strong experience in Life Sciences enterprise software or adjacent regulated domains such as regulatory, labeling, submissions, quality, safety, clinical, medical device, or data/workflow platforms.
• Demonstrated success modernizing or…