Senior Product Owner

Site Name: Belgium-Rixensart, Italy - Siena, Stevenage, Upper Providence Posted Date: Dec 20 2022 Are you looking to expand your expertise as an IT Product Owner within a global environment that allows you to keep pace with the speed of change? At GSK, we are transforming how new technologies are used to improve performance across the organization. Within R&D Tech we are looking for a Senior Product Owner. In the emerging data and analytics world, Data plays a key role, and the Senior Product Owner/Business Analyst must be a creative thinker and propose innovative ways to look at problems by using data. This role will provide YOU the opportunity to bring experience in moving from POC to industrialized products, applying agile/lean delivering approaches. Our work covers working with teams in R&D. You will also have ownership and responsibility for the product domain identified (scientific platforms and product Dev Tool) within the respective product suite. This individual is recognized as the go to leader and trusted advisor for their domain, working collaboratively and adaptively to constantly meet the needs of their customers and deliver value to GSK, by contributing to the development of our in-silico and digital capabilities. In the role, you will collaborate with other functional teams and digital innovation team, to ensure the optimal portfolio of applications exists to support the business: This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following… Technology Strategy & Enablement: in the role of trusted advisor, strong domain knowledge including one or more of the following: business process, industry best practices, in market solutions. Demand management: Collaborate with business stakeholders to manage and prioritize the product backlog to produce the product set with the highest business value. Accountable for the product backlog and product cost forecast. Governance: Establish business value, manage delivery and service performance and manage business risk within the scope of their product. Responsible for representing the product in governance boards such as Steering and Design Authority. Product/Project Delivery: Design and deliver the optimal set of products and services which meets the business strategy and requirements. Accountable for creation and execution of the product roadmap. May complete hands on configuration, providing detailed designs and wider impact assessments. The ability to think big picture and customer first is imperative. Quality, Risk & Compliance: Accountable for ensuring the product within the domain is compliant with internal security and risk management policies and practices, as well as external regulatory and statutory requirements e.g. GxP and that Tech continuity plans are in place for all critical products. Feature Definition: Proven ability to translate customer requests, competitive activities, and industry trends into value drivers of new technology solutions and product requirements that can be easily understood by product teams, developers and other key constituencies within the organization. Service Management: Responsible for ensuring any changes are delivered in accordance to the services levels that are in place, to ensure adherence to those SLAs, and directly managing any Level 3 support issues and escalations. Accountable for Lifecycle Management of the product. People Management: Will work in collaboration with the broader team to drive and deliver business value to tight timelines adhering to the release management calendar where applicable. Depending on team structure, the incumbent may matrix manage the team Adoption strategy & change management: in the role of change agent, support both the product teams and the business in agile approaches to solution development and adoption, building excitement, momentum, visible success stories and clear value-based versions of vision as roadmap plans come to life. Why you? Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: A higher degree (PhD preferred) in Engineering, Information technology, Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computational Chemistry or related quantitative field 5+ years of experience as Product Manager / Business Analyst / product Owner in data driven scientific platforming (eg. NLP, NLG, Computer Vision, etc.) Strong analytical mindset and business analysis capabilities Demonstrable experience in working in an IT product related industry, with experience in IT software analysis, design or delivery. Knowledge of Cloud (Azure or AWS or Google Cloud) platform infrastructure and on-prem to run and optimize distributed data applications Outcome driven experience, consulting background plus Product mindset, move from POC to Products Self-confident/assertive/dynamic/motivated behavior & being able to work on multiple tasks/projects in parallel, with limited supervision Result-oriented Pro-active and future thinking and acting. Good experience in relationship management, influencing and communication skills Content knowledge of respective functional area (business operating models, processes & products) Knowledge and assessment of emerging trends (both functional and technical) within domain Fluency in English (written and oral) Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: A higher degree (PhD preferred) in Engineering, Information technology, Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computational Chemistry or related quantitative field Pharmaceutical industry experience Outstanding Business analysis skills on the domain Experience within automation (integration of sensors, controls, and actuators designed to perform a function with minimal or no human intervention) Why GSK? GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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