Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people's lives.
Job Title: Product Owner
Location: Mettawa, IL
Duration: 8 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- In this role you'll be responsible for:
- Overseeing a portfolio of technology products from ideation to operation, including securing cross-functional alignment on project scope, benefits, cost, and timeline.
- Proactively understand business strategies, educate business stakeholders on existing technology capabilities, and influence/develop capability roadmaps and investment.
- Identifying current, emerging unmet business needs, and evaluating technology solutions to balance short-term and long-term objectives.
- Proposing, initiating, and leading programs that transform the focus Business function's processes or technology capabilities.
- Project intake, scope clarification, epic and story grooming, estimating, generating cost and timeline plans, defining UAT and testing strategy, release management, and overseeing engineering decisions.
- Supervising a matrix team of Product Analysts, Business Systems Analysts, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, Architects, Engineers, Testers to deliver technology products to the business.
- All BRM (business relationship management) activities, including serving as the single point of contact for initiatives in your portfolio.
- Making sure that as BTS we are consistent in applying our core capabilities to deliver technology solutions with speed, agility, and efficiency.
- Identifying re-use opportunities and proposing viable pilot and MVP solutions.
- Responsible for compliance with applicable Client Policies and procedures.
- Managing an IT investment budget of $25K to $1M.
Experiences that are required for this role:
Required:
- Bachelor's Degree with 8 years' experience; Master's Degree with 7 years' experience; or PhD with 3 years' experience.
- Experience developing and/or managing the development of technology applications, regardless of tech stack.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a keen ability to build trust, listen, and ask effective questions with the goal of creating a scalable and reusable business solution along with forming effective partnerships.
- Ability to interact with business leaders to demystify complex concepts without relying on technical language.
- Thorough understanding of and hands-on experience with SLC (Software Life Cycle) phases, including Build and Run aspects of a Technology Product.
- Demonstrable working knowledge of Agile methodology, process and ceremonies.
- 1-2 years of experience managing or coaching cross-functional resources employees or contract resources.
- Ability to self-manage time and priorities.
Beneficial:
- Understanding of or experience within the life sciences and biopharmaceutical landscape, including role of manufacturers, providers, patients, payers, distributors and policy makers.
- Understanding of financial planning, forecasting and data management concepts and systems.
- Demonstrable interest in technology trends and application of technology to improve end user's experience through innovation or disruption.
- Experience in leading and managing Agile teams and/or projects.
- Hands on experience with JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNOW and Smartsheet.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mettawa, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $90–$95 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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