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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).
- 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.
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Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, economics, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
Less than 2 years of experience in product management, product operations, business analysis, market research, project coordination, or a related field required.
Certification in product management, agile practices, or business analysis preferred.
What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
Affiliated Companies
Affiliated Companies: Phlexglobal, Inc.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.
The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.
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