Agile Product Management Senior Advisor

Duties:

• Proactive and takes an active role in understanding the business case, why a change is being requested and learning the desired future state.
• Focused on continuous learning, adopting probe and learn approach for self-learning
• Leverages knowledge of the product’s value stream and system interactions to identify when new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value. 
• Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements. Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)
• Communicates stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and writes definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering. 
• Facilitates product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest. Responsible for maintaining product technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.
• Adept at building relationship with business, technology partners to establish a circle of trust with stakeholders. 
• Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership, health and non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.). 
• Cultivates trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision, goals and priorities. 
• Leads sprint planning , story refinement , feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders. 
•  Actively participates in planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team’s work creates the iterative value (e.g. supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams). 
• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
• Participates in team standups, and retrospectives, facilitates dialog with stakeholders during sprint reviews/product demos.
•  Identifies, monitors and communicates technical product health metrics and KPIs and advocates for product improvements with Business/Technology partners. 
• Manages allocation of team capacity to ensure appropriate levels are utilized for product health improvements and reduction of technical debt (e.g. integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.)
• Leverages agility tools (e.g., Jira) and implements strategies to optimize team performance and achieve overall department objectives (e.g., manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.)

Skills:

8-12 years relevant experience; i.e., business analysis and/or technology development

• Experience in Pharmacy  area
• 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 commitment and ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent technical, analytical, presentation skills and communication skills required.
• Ability to effectively operate within a fast pace, dynamic organization
• Ability to influence and build strong relationship across the organization
• Proven ability to work in a team environment