Job Description Summary

 As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a high quality solution. You will act as the bridge between stakeholders and the development team, ensuring the product vision aligns with business objectives. Key Duties will include facilitating requirements, refining user stories, and driving iterative product improvements in an Agile environment. This role requires excellent communication, organizational skills, and the ability to balance technical and business priorities.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

We are searching for a Product Owner to join our MMS Pharmacy Automation team. The Product Owner serves as a subject matter expert in their field with depth and breadth of experience, knowledge and skills. 

 

The three primary responsibilities of the product owner will be managing and prioritizing the product backlog in partnership with their Software Delivery Leader, translating product managers' strategies to development requirements, stories, tasks, and supporting the holistic success of instruments in their portfolio. To accomplish this, the PO will work with a cross-functional team to define and document requirements and acceptance criteria on a daily basis; work with beta customers to test and validate new releases; liaison with the Service team to ensure that escalations and defects are triaged, prioritized, and remediated; collaborate with Product Managers and Software Delivery Leaders to manage release coordination activities and partner for value delivery. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Create, order, and manage the backlog of software features, user stories, and product defects to ensure that the work defined for the team is meaningful to the customer, yet realistic and attainable for the development teams. Balance features innovation, new product development, and sustaining activity via definition and backlog prioritization in collaboration with cross-functional team. Considers risk factors that could affect scope, schedule, and/or resources and inform adequate contingency plans for potential issues. 

• Manage software requirement engineering process, in partnership with Systems Engineering, throughout the development life cycle, eliciting, documenting, analyzing, and harmonizing functional and non-functional requirements.  

• Support sprint planning and reviews, development estimation, and incremental feature delivery in tight collaboration with Customers, Product Managers, Engineering, and Quality.   

• Play an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals – governance for change management and lead adjustments to plan  

• Facilitate scoping of software requirements to align between product roadmaps and deliverables.  

• Support SW Quality in test planning by identifying testability requirements and supporting review of test cases and defects, as needed. 

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