Group Product Owner, Solution Innovation & Design

Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today! Job Details The Group Product Owner – Solution Innovation is responsible for defining the long- term vision, strategy, and execution priorities for a product group focused on rapid solution innovation for Community Pharmacy Solutions (CPS). Reporting to the VP, Solution Development and Innovation, this role owns the innovation backlog and sets priorities for a high-velocity Solution Innovation team that supports net-new solution incubation, targeted enhancements to existing solutions, and digital marketing enablement capabilities that support pharmacy growth and customer engagement. This role also provides oversight and strategic alignment for the digital marketing enablement function led by the Director – Digital Marketing Enablement. This includes ensuring that digital marketing tools, pharmacy-facing digital platforms, vendor-enabled marketing capabilities, digital analytics, Google advertising and listing capabilities, MyGNP digital properties, CRM-enabled workflows, and related customer engagement platforms are aligned to CPS product development and innovation priorities.   The GPO ensures innovation work is customer-centered, aligned to CPS strategy, and delivered through disciplined product management practices. The role partners with peer Group Product Owners and cross-functional stakeholders to translate market problems into validated opportunities, execute proof-of-concepts and pilots, coordinate digital solution experimentation, and move successful innovations into formal product roadmaps for commercialization and adoption.   Primary Duties and Responsibilities   Innovation Strategy, Pipeline, and Prioritization   Define and drive the innovation strategy, business plan, and growth themes for the Solution Innovation product group aligned to CPS objectives .   Maintain and prioritize an innovation backlog of ideas, prototypes, digital capabilities, and enhancements; make trade-off decisions based on customer value, feasibility, strategic impact, and readiness to scale.   Continuously evaluate and quantify market demand, define opportunities, and identify product/market fit for innovation concepts across CPS solutions and digital marketing enablement capabilities.   Ensure the digital marketing enablement roadmap and associated platform priorities are integrated into the broader Solution Innovation pipeline where they support CPS growth, customer engagement, and pharmacy enablement.   Oversight of Digital Marketing Enablement   Provide strategic oversight to the Director – Digital Marketing Enablement and their team to ensure digital marketing tools, vendor capabilities, customer-facing digital properties, platform enhancements, and digital analytics support CPS strategy and innovation priorities.   Ensure digital marketing enablement work—including Google advertising, Google Business Profiles, My GNP Mobile app, MyGNP.com, social media enablement, Salesforce-enabled workflows, analytics, vendor management, and product marketing—is aligned to CPS product development and innovation processes.   Guide prioritization of digital marketing enhancement requests, platform capabilities, pilots, and customer experience improvements so they are evaluated through a consistent product and innovation lens.   Ensure digital marketing enablement capabilities provide actionable insights, scalable customer engagement tools, and reliable inputs into broader CPS solution development and commercialization planning.   Solution Discovery, Prototyping, and Proof of Concept   Lead discovery to translate customer needs, digital engagement opportunities, and market problems into use cases, hypotheses, requirements, and minimum viable experiments.   Direct execution of proof-of-concepts, beta tests, digital pilots, and prototypes through the Solution Innovation developer pod and digital marketing enablement team where applicable.   Establish measurable success criteria for experiments and pilots; recommend whether to stop, iterate, scale, or transition work into the appropriate product or platform roadmap.   Ensure lessons learned from digital marketing pilots, customer utilization patterns, analytics, and vendor-enabled capabilities inform the broader product development and innovation process.   Product Ownership and Agile Delivery   Lead end-to-end success of innovation capabilities from requirements definition through design, development, launch authorization, and post-launch analysis.   Partner with UX/design, digital marketing enablement, commercial, product, and operations teams to ensure voice of customer informs requirements and solution designs.   Ensure the Solution Innovation pod and digital enablement delivery teams operate with clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, release plans, and measurable outcomes.   Identify and manage interdependencies, resource conflicts, platform constraints, vendor dependencies, and risks; develop mitigation plans and manage issue resolution.   Team Leadership and Operating Model   Set priorities, sprint goals, and deliverable expectations for the Solution Innovation developer pod and ensure appropriate alignment with the Director – Digital Marketing Enablement and their team.   Create clear operating rhythms between innovation development, digital marketing enablement, product teams, commercialization, brand, and solution enablement stakeholders.   Establish sustainable processes and lightweight standards for rapid innovation, including documentation, privacy/security considerations, reusability