Job Description Summary

The Product Owner (m/f/d) 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.

We are flexible! This position can be either full time or part time based on need and individual agreement.

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. 
 
Why Join Us?

A career at BD means learning and working alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time. 

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.

Become a maker of possible with us!

In recent years, BD’s Medication Management Solutions (MMS) business unit has expanded into the high-growth pharmacy automation space and is now one of the global leaders in pharmacy automation. The Pharmacy Automation platform positions BD to offer our pharmacy customers a more comprehensive set of thoughtful, connected care technologies as they expand care to new settings, centralize their pharmacy operations and own the charge in addressing some of the biggest challenges facing the industry, including health care worker burnout and the global clinician shortage. BD’s Pharmacy Automation portfolio covers a wide range of hardware and software technologies from storage and dispensing robots, vision solutions, pouch packagers, vial filling systems, blister card production systems as well as central fill solutions and enterprise pharmacy management software solutions. We are searching for a Product Owner to join our MMS Pharmacy Automation team.

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.

• Lead verification and validation/beta launch activities for their cross-functional project team including: protocol writing, execution, and reporting. Support beta launch