Manager, Product Owner, Data Management

Job Description

• Manager, Product Owner, Data Management

  
  

  Our Digital team is innovating how we understand our patients and their needs. Working cross functionally we are inventing new ways of communicating, measuring and interacting with our customers and patients through digital channels and technologies.

  
  

  We are seeking a talented, motivated and self-driven professional to join our organization and play an active role in our Company's Human Health transformation journey to become the premier “Data First” commercial biopharma organization. As a Product Owner, you will be part of the our Data Management and Platforms team where you will be responsible for shaping the strategy, overseeing delivery execution and ensuring value realization of data platform features and data products.

  
  

  In this role, you will leverage strategic thinking, technical skills, creativity and knowledge of pharmaceutical data landscapes to shape the product vision and strategy. You will partner with architecture, data science and IT teams, as well as global and regional stakeholders to assess needs, develop the product strategy and roadmap, lead engineering teams to deliver best-in-class data platform features and data engineering services, and measure value realization aligned with the company’s mission and our organization strategy. You will have the opportunity to deliver impactful capabilities that enable data-driven decision making across our company's commercial division and realize value for commercial and marketing teams.

  
  

  Primary Responsibilities:

  
  

  ·Translate problems, needs and opportunities into the product vision, strategy and roadmap for the data platform supporting the HHDDA organization, aligned with business strategy and objectives

  
  

  ·Conduct stakeholder meetings to continuously shape and evolve product vision and roadmap

  
  

  ·Develop and leverage in-depth knowledge of biopharma marketing/ commercial analytics domains and data landscapes

  
  

  ·Lead design, prioritization and delivery of data platform features and data engineering/ management services through the software development lifecycle, from concept to testing, deployment and adoption

  
  

  ·Create and manage epics and user stories to ensure delivery teams have well-groomed and prioritized backlogs to meet product objectives and deliver on the product roadmap

  
  

  ·Partner with stakeholders across the division and the broader Human Health organization to implement robust refinement practices and customer feedback loops to ensure features and services delivered are aligned with business/ user needs

  
  

  ·Drive value-based prioritization of work, manage release scoping in alignment with stakeholders and ensure customer expectation are managed optimally

  
  

  ·Partner with various business strategy and execution teams, internal data stewards and 3rd party vendors to further develop and scale the company’s data assets

  
  

  ·Manage optimal balance between user/ stakeholder needs and technical capabilities to maintain high platform performance standards, efficient operations and minimize technical debt

  
  

  ·Work closely with product owners/ managers, scrum masters and technical leads to optimize team setup and resolve impediments to enable efficient and high-quality software development

  
  

  ·Work independently under minimal guidance, ensuring alignment with management teams.

  
  

  Education:

  
  

  ·B.S. or M.S. in Engineering or related field, such as Computer Science, Data Science, Business, etc.

  
  

  Required Experience and Skills:

  
  

  ·Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, with demonstrated Product Ownership experience developing data and analytics capabilities in an Agile framework

  
  

  ·Knowledge of data engineering capabilities and data science lifecycle

  
  

  ·Relevant experience in Product Development Frameworks, System Development Life Cycle

  
  

  ·Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders

  
  

  ·Leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to set direction and lead/ motivate teams

  
  

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  Preferred Experience and Skills:

  
  

  ·Understanding of Global Commercial and Marketing Analytics domains and data landscape

  
  

  ·Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry

  
  

  ·Agile Certifications

  
  

  ·AWS Cloud Certifications

  
  

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Hybrid

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Required Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Project Management, Software Development, Stakeholder Relationship Management

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Job Posting End Date:

09/30/2024

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