Duration & Type: 12 months Contract with our client – a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry Location: Remote The candidate should be able to work in EST, CET, or CST timezone — in that order of preference. The candidate will be working with HQ-based people and those in Ireland and Barcelona. Note: The ideal candidates have helped build patient services applications. Responsibilities:

• Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
• Highlight product features in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation
• Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners
• Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team
• Monitor the progress of product development, as well as plan for product release
• Contact customers and end users to obtain information on expected product features
• Provide reports to update management and stakeholders on product development operations
• Analyze customer opinions and feedback to determine features or components that will add good value to a product
• Participate in agile conferences and study relevant scrum material to update job knowledge/skill
• Constantly exchange ideas with product owners within an organization
• Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements
• Measure product performance as well as value delivered to clients in order to make adjustments where necessary
• Develop and implement action plans for building and sustaining demand for a product
• Ensure implemented product features add value to end users and increase company returns.

Required:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Software engineering, business management or related disciplines.
• Training and certification as a professional scrum product owner (PSPO) or as a certified scrum product owner (CSPO) is also crucial for the position
• Healthcare experience preferred
• Web application and/or salesforce.com experience preferred
• Leadership Skill: Product owners are able to direct and motivate the product development team of an organization
• Analytical Skill: They are able to conduct surveys to determine most appropriate feature to add to a new or existing product
• Interpersonal Skill: They are adept to working with user groups and scrum team to obtain and analyze user stories.

For consideration, please send resume to [email protected]