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Job Details

The Product Owner is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and business requirements, managing the product backlog , and working closely with data operations, quality assurance, and the key stakeholders to ensure satisfaction goals are met. The Product Owner works with aligned cross functional support teams to update the products and supporting processes to ensure the product has current features and optimal usability. The Product Owner’s Job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals. This role may manage assigned product lines and/or integrated solutions using a defined product management agile methodology. This role may also work with teams across business segments to understand data or service sharing opportunities for assigned product lines and integrated solutions to help define and prioritize product development and production support initiatives. This role will work with the Business Analyst and Project Manager to ensure requirements are groomed effectively with Data Operations, Data Management & Quality Assurance, and Systems Management team members.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in discussions with management on development of long-term strategy, and road mapping

• Drives business value through a product backlog of development priorities

• Defines the product strategy and roadmap and key metrics In conjunction with the manager, partners with key business stakeholders, identifies issues, impacts, and articulates options and solutions

• Develop requirements for assigned products and production support initiatives based on market information, customer feedback, and leadership input, and assist teams to realize these requirements

• Partners with Enterprise Architect team to ensure product is compliant with Cencora standards

• Works with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities (vendor management)

• Maintains the agile process and cadence for software delivery

• Runs beta and pilot programs with early-stage products

• Responsible for researching and maintaining a working knowledge of future regulatory and clinical requirements, health IT regulatory requirements, capabilities and technology trends, and incorporating that knowledge into communication and implementation

• Be an expert with respect to the competitor products

• Define and prioritize features to update product regularly and maintain usability of product

• Act as a leader within the company and an evangelist of the product

• Provide training to internal associates

• Participate in customer demos and client meetings as appropriate Collaborate with data acquisition associates and Architects to understand requirements to onboard/integrate data from new partners or new software into our ‘Steady State’ environments (RefineIQ) for custom and production reporting

• Perform other duties as assigned

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires broad training in fields such as healthcare, information technology, computer science, business administration, or similar vocations generally obtained through completion of a four-year bachelor’s degree program. 

• Requires a minimum of six (6) years related and progressively responsible experience as a Product Owner

• Experience in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management is also desirable. 

• Should understand the basics of business process modeling, system development lifecycle planning, and web portal development.  

MINIMUM SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to communicate at all levels of the organization (directors, managers, data engineers, quality assurance analysts, end users, etc.)

• Prior experience with Salesforce, SAP, Microsoft Office Suite - highly desired

• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

• Ability to self-learn and seek out knowledge to improve overall understanding of team technology solutions

• Excellent verbal and wri