Product Owner 2

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Job Details

Purpose Summary

As a Product Owner, I am responsible for understanding customer needs and business objectives for my product(s) and for delivering a successful product through the effective leadership of the development team, ensuring delivery aligns with the Product Manager's roadmap. I produce software with excellent user experience and high customer satisfaction.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• I lead cross-functional product delivery, working closely with development, engineering and other internal teams to deliver high-quality products, features and releases that align with the product vision, roadmap, business objectives and identified market needs.
• I identify problems encountered by the customer, bringing cross-functional teams together and establishing working groups to deliver high quality products that meet customer needs and drive business growth.
• I collaborate with the Product Manager, UX team and other stakeholders.
• I manage scope to timescales and budget.
• I represent our users in all our digital product decisions.
• I collect, manage and prioritise product features and requirements from all stakeholders across the business and externally, according to business value.
• I define user journeys and translate identified needs into clear, prioritised product requirements.
• I maintain a concise, prioritised and clear backlog of User Stories and Bugs, balancing the needs of the business alongside technical debt, security and other priorities.
• I facilitate product demonstrations and other feedback activities to validate delivered functionality and inform future priorities, including organising ongoing sprint demo sessions to solicit and collect feedback from stakeholders.
• I produce testable User Stories meeting the definition of ready for the development team that deliver value within a single sprint and align with the solution objectives.
• I ensure well documented, testable non-functional requirements.
• I ensure requirements consider system configuration options and define appropriate defaults.
• I ensure requirements consider application security and align to the development process and regulatory/compliance guidelines.
• I can use Generative AI to help create User and Functional requirements, and I know when to leverage AI and when not to do so.
• The employee agrees to take over additional reasonable tasks that align with their abilities, if required.

Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, ideally in a related field, or equivalent and demonstrable experience as a Product Owner/Manager.
• Minimum 1 years' experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner or Product Manager.
• Experience using AI tools and Generative AI
• Experience working with pharmaceutical software, eTMFs, Pharmacovigilance and/or Regulatory Affairs tooling is preferred but not essential.
• English language fluency.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements

• I have experience performing requirements analysis and writing specification documents to deliver customer outcomes.
• I have experience delivering products using agile development methodology techniques, working directly with developers/technical teams.
• I have a data-driven focus and experience interpreting data and translating it into stories, using it to drive product strategy.
• I have a deep understanding of product-specific market personas and their challenges.
• I am strong across execution, highly analytical and data-driven, drive decisions, and create experiences that customers love.
• I have experience defining user journeys and stories and setting good quality story standards.

Technical skills:

• Requirements analysis (ideally including SaaS & Managed Service Products).
• Agile SCRUM.
• Use of JIRA.
• Ability to write BDD and understanding of Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Ability to derive and document non-functional requirements.
• Able to convey technical and non-technical ideas and concepts to varied audiences.
• Backlog management and refinement.
• Understanding of SDLC processes.
• Understanding of UX and product design.
• Self-motivated with a relentless drive and passion to make improvements and achieve results.

What Cencora offers

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