Agile Product owner / Business Analyst - Pharmacy finance - Billing & Collections - Morris Plains, NJ - Onsite

Company Description

Arthur Grand is an IT services firm specializing in Digital Transformation initiatives for Federal, Commercial, State & local customers. Since 2012, Arthur Grand has been successfully supporting and delivering IT services to our customers in the areas of enterprise modernization and transformation with a core focus on emerging technologies including Cloud Solutions (AWS, Azure), Agile Development, Custom Programming, Full Stack Development, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Web Development, Mobile APP Development, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, Financial/ERP System Implementation and Infrastructure Management. Arthur Grand’s culture of delivery excellence, combined with a commitment to bring the best talent to provide services, has earned our company an unparalleled reputation for delivering transformative results.

Job Description

Arthur Grand Technologies is currently seeking a highly motivated and skilled Agile Product Owner –Long Term Contract – Morris Plains, NJ for one of our clients.

Job title: Agile Product Owner 

Location: Morris Plains, NJ - MUST BE ABLE TO GO ONSITE IN NJ

Duration: 12 months+

Must Haves:

• 5+ years relevant experience in Pharmacy Finance area including Billing and Collections as a Product Owner
• Significant Agile experience and or Agile certifications with experience and knowledge of Jira, Rally and Business Process Modeling tools
• Strong business and organizational skills and previous business stakeholder interaction paired with excellent technical, analytical, presentation skills and communication skills

Duties:
The Agile Product Owner Senior Advisor is responsible for the initiatives supporting the Specialty Pharmacy Area.  This position utilizes technical and operational aptitude and experience to provide business support to Express Scripts Operations to ensure satisfaction with technology products, systems and services in alignment with ESI objectives.  Assists with ensuring requirements are clear and actionable and that the execution of approved initiatives drives value in the department. Manages deadlines and ensures overall success of assigned portfolio initiatives from beginning to end.

Primary Functions:

• Provide business direction and project management for cross-functional, operational, strategic and/or tactical initiatives in our Specialty Pharmacy area.
• Coordinate cross-functional team members' activities to ensure that designated projects and relevant tasks are completed on time to support the project team's efforts.
• Gather and analyze data, develop queries, document necessary requirements, track action items via a project plan, and provide status reports. Ensure proper processes are met and documented by responsible team and business lead.
• Responsible for timely completion of initiatives and communicating with leadership on roadblocks and changing priorities.
• Optimize results within acceptable product scope and time constraints. Partner with cross-functional project teams to assess status, support escalated issues as they arise and drive the resolution of product impediments.
• Assist in the establishment of the strategic direction and product roadmap.
• Act as liaison between business and technology to execute portfolio level initiatives, resolve issues, monitor KPI results and provide leadership status updates.
• Accountable for completing financial analysis with resource management partner and tracking savings/margin/benefit with leadership.
• Understanding of trends and metrics associated with your product/capability area.
• Leverage data to come up with new opportunities for product improvement.
• Work with business and technology partners to understand our customers' needs to meet business objectives and to improve customer satisfaction/NPS.
• Partner with technology and analytics teams to develop new data sources for KPI's currently not in place.
• Lead large/complex technology projects in our Specialty Pharmacy area and assist others in gathering and documenting requirements.

Skills:

• 5-8 years relevant experience; i.e., business analysis and/or technology development
• Experience in Pharmacy Finance area including Billing and Collections preferred
• Experience working in an agile environment preferred PC skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office, Agile tools (Jira, Rally), Business Process Modeling tools
• Ability to handle analysis from issue identification to proposal of potential solutions
• Strong business and organizational skills
• Demonstrated initiative with comm