Product Owner - Chicago ( Illinois )

Job Description :

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Mettawa IL (onsite Tues/Wed/Thurs)(Only local with DL)

Duration:  6+ months 

Duration: Through July 2027

Product Owner, Commercial BTS

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 AbbVie 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.
• 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.