Digital Product Owner Manager

Career CategoryInformation SystemsJob DescriptionJoin Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will serve a critical function within Organizational, Planning, Analytics & Insights (OPA&I) with a goal of enterprise-wide, long-term workforce transformation by connecting people, financial, procurement & capability data to enable business insights & decisions. The Sr. Digital Product Owner will collaborate with the Tech and Data lead for OPA&I and will be responsible for developing and communicating the product roadmap in alignment to OPA&I strategic objectives.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Collaboration: Lead and collaborate with multi-functional teams to develop and advance digital product capabilities for Organization Planning, Insights and Insights. This involves working closely with managers, directors and VPs across finance, workforce strategy, procurement, and other multi-functional teams to align on integrated processes. Collaborate with data engineers/scientists, software engineers and system engineers to identify opportunities for new features and enhancements. You will play a crucial role in ensuring that these capabilities meet the needs of the multi-functional collaborator while staying aligned with the overall strategic goals for workforce planning.
• Product Vision and Development Management: Drive product vision and run development processes, ensuring effective communication and Agile methodologies. As a product leader, you will define the product roadmap, maintain the backlog, and write detailed user stories. Your responsibilities will also include facilitating conceptualisation sessions, coordinating the rollout of new functionalities, and partnering with product owners and business owners to ensure successful implementation.
• Process Improvement and Documentation: Enhance product efficiency through process improvements and maintain essential product artifacts and documentation. This includes identifying areas for process optimization, implementing standard methodologies to streamline development, and keeping thorough records of product-related documents such as playbooks and launch plans. Develop key documentation artifacts that align collaborators and development team and advance the product roadmap with high-value features. Develop a culture that emphasizes thorough documentation for technical and non-technical audiences. Additionally, you will ensure that the product development cycle is efficient and that all team members are well-informed and aligned.

What we expect of you

• Master’s degree and 4 to 6 years of product development for data solutions & track record of leading product development initiatives OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 6 to 8 years of product development for data solutions & track record of leading product development initiatives experience OR
• Diploma and Minimum of 8+ years of product development for data solutions & track record of leading product development initiatives experience

Must-Have Skills:

• Experience in leading and collaborating in agile scrum teams
• Experience in defining and communicating product vision and strategy
• Experience in 4+ years maintaining product artifacts such as product roadmap and backlog
• Experience in composing and reviewing user stories.
• Experience leading conceptualisation through roll-out/release of new features and functionality, in partnership with collaborators and engineering team.
• Experience working effectively in global, multi-functional teams.
• Experience communicating effectively using both offline and online forms of communication
• Experience with product teams building integrated data solutions

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience working with financial and/or workforce data
• Conceptual understanding of data platforms such as Databricks and software development lifecycle management

Professional Certifications:

• Relevant agile/product management(preferred)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and solving skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to run multiple priorities successfully
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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