Sr. Spclst , Technical Product Management

Job Description

For more than 125 years, our company has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives. IT is a fundamental enabler of our company’s mission.

We are looking for a passionate Product/BusinessAnalyst to be part of the our Company Research Labs Information Technology organization (Research & Development DivisionIT). You will be partnering with Global Clinical Development business groups and contribute to a range of IT programs in the Clinical area at global level.

The Product/Businessanalyst will be part of product teams that solve problems in ways that our customers love, yet work for our business (that means that we might internally develop solutions or buy of the shelf products). Therefore, the Product/Businessanalyst must collaborate closely with business stakeholders, vendors, architects, engineersand designers to discover effective solutions and then work together to deliver those.

While we will empower the product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we will also hold those teams accountable to the results. The Product/Businessanalyst will be part of the team that is accountable for ensuring the solution is valuable, viable and meets business needs.

We will expect that you deep dive into problems, document end-to-end processes and are able to clearly articulate those to your team and others. You will also need to effectively leaddiscussions and ensure that groups don’t lose focus on real priorities. In this job, you will need to be able to influence and bring together your teammates, as well as colleagues and stakeholders through your use of data and logic.

You will also participate on system validation activities following company policies and GxP compliance guidelines.

What you will do/ Key responsibilities:

• Gather documentation related to business processes in clinical domain, document business/user needs and trace requests and responses to requests.

• Continuously broaden your expertise in the Clinical Trials business domain as well as analysis and reporting platforms.

• Work with the business to identify business value for our initiatives and determine the best way to measure that our solutions achieve the targeted business value.

• Be accountable for enablement, adoption, and growth of tools utilizedinthe context of clinical analysis andreporting.

• Build knowledge of existing solutionsand leverage these for the benefit the business stakeholders.

• Partner with team members including project manager, senior product manager, technical lead(s) and development team to create and manage high-quality SDLC deliverables.

• Ensure product releases follow company policies and GxP compliance guidelines.

• Work closely with the team to ensure a healthy backlog of well-formed epics, features and user stories are maintained, which align with the overall roadmap and serve as requirements for the delivery.

• Follow and apply the Product Model principles to maximize the business value.

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Computer Science, or a related study.

Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Product/Business Analyst or similar role.

• Experience with working within a global team

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate across multiple stakeholders.

• Self-driven and able to work independently.

Preferred skills:

• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

• Understanding of the Clinical Trials domain from a data collection, standards and analysis and reportingperspective.

• Experience with GxP validations, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), or working with SaaS and COTS vendors.

• Note: Travel (~5 to 10%) might be required.

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