Senior Product Owner

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Management

• Understand GMSGQ Tier 5 business goals and Data, Digital, & Technology (DD&T) strategies, existing DD&T capabilities, enterprise DD&T strategy, and available DD&T products and/or services.
• Understand GMSGQ Tier 3 to Tier 5 end-user needs and behaviors.
• Understand, anticipate, and influence GMSGQ demand for DD&T products and services.
• Proactively engage and onboard potential customers of existing products.

Product Strategy & Planning

• Lead generation, capture, and screening of GMSGQ Tier 3 and 4 innovation ideas.
• Guide multiple product teams on definition of what GMSGQ enhancements, or new products, to offer customers based on their goals, needs, and strategies.

Customer Relationship Management

• Communicate how the product is meeting the business priorities and goals of the organizations (business, technology, and marketing).
• Work with partners in GMSGQ on OpU Level, technology, data, and ecosystem to accomplish product goals.
• Identify high priority / critical issues and provide solutions to GMSGQ Tier4 needs.

Product Delivery

• Provide recommendations on features needed for the product for future stages of development.
• Develop product vision and strategy and synchronize it with GMSGQ Tier 5 and Tier 4 Strategic Themes and Must Wins, product manager, and product owners of teams responsible for adjacent products.
• Lead 2-3 product teams through the process of defining product requirements ensuring they are complete, integral, consistent, and the sole source of requirements for the team.
• Prioritize features for the product roadmap with development teams and ensure successful product releases.
• Scope the MVP considering existing resource constraints and sustained development of the product.
• Oversee initiation and execution of continuous improvement efforts.
• Define product offering in terms of benefits, features, and customer journeys.
• Ensure scalability of products
• Innovate the existing product portfolio.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Build a backlog of user stories, prioritize items to achieve business goals and continuously update together with the team.
• Make sure the team correctly understands the requirements.
• Work with the scrum master, engineering manager, and design leads to align timelines, dependencies, and scope.
• Participate in the planning sprint to reaffirm priorities and confirm requirements.
• Interact with other teams and units as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-team tasks.
• Support the team in collecting ideas and setting priorities for prototyping and development.
• Develop a strategic customer engagement plan for the product and work with GMSGQ Business Owners and strategic partners across the organization to drive execution.
• Work with GMSGQ Business Owners and GDD&T and DD&T teams to prepare for customer launch and readiness.
• Introduce OKRs to make product teams performance visible to senior leadership.

Product Management

• Has ownership of the product strategy, product design, product development and product launch.
• Accountable for holistic product vision, delivery, and value realization across products.
• Set product strategy and plans consistent with corporate priorities and sets vision and direction for the team.
• Define vision that reflects customer and business needs, balancing long term, overall solution direction and short-term Agile release train (ART) vision.
• Confirm product teams comply with GDD&T architecture standards.
• Own the vision, marketing, and ROI for a particular product.
• Interface with customers and be accountable to define the requirements and scope of products to be built.

Product Delivery

• Be an influencer for the organization and the company.
• Demonstrate ability to attract talent from inside and outside of the company.
• Act as content authority over features and their associated acceptance criteria.
• Participate in planning, system demos, and the inspect and adapt workshop for their Agile release train.
• Manage the expectations of business owners and other stakeholders.

Qualification & Requirements

Education / Experience:

Essential:

• Master’s degree in computer science or in a Technical/Natural Science
• A relevant and significant experience in Digital, Data and Technology
• Stakeholder Management
• Developing & Implementing Strategies
• Customer Relationship Management
• Requirements Definition & Analysis
• Developing & Implementing Strategies
• Product Management
• Directing & Influencing Others
• GMSGQ Business Goals & Strategy
• Product Development & Delivery (e.g., MVP, v2.0)
• Backlog, Epic, & Story Management
• Teaming & Collaboration
• Deliver Customer Goals & Strategy
• Design Thinking, CX, and UI/UX Tool & Methodologies
• Agile, SDLC, and DevOps Tools & Methodologies (e.g., SAFe, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence)
• GDD&T Platforms, Services, & Standards (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, Architecture)
• Risk assessment
• Market opportunity sizing/ mapping
• Data sources and integrations

Preferred:

• Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry in a manufacturing, engineering, or quality assurance context.

Benefits

• Insurance Benefits
• Retirement Benefits
• Vacation Policy
• Other Perks and Benefits…