Agile Product Management Advisor

Position

The Agile Product Management Advisor uses specialized depth and experience to oversee the decomposition of business vision/ process flow to tangible MVPs, writing andmodifyingof complex technical functional requirements for products varying in complexity. The Sr Advisor acts as conduit between business and engineering, steering the discussion towards futuristic, reliable solutions to solve complex business problems.

The Agile Product Management Advisoris responsible forthe initiatives supporting the Specialty Pharmacy Area. This positionutilizestechnical, operational aptitude and experience to understand, incorporate and translate business use cases/needs to system flow charts, storymapsand refined story shells. The Sr Advisor is also adept at Software Lifecycle handling and contributes to / challenges design proposals to deliveroptimalsolutions on-time and on-budget. Adept atrepresentingrequirements in actionable, measurable outcome driven approach. Manages deadlines and ensures overall success of assigned portfolio initiatives from beginning to end.

Responsibilities

• Proactive and takes an active role in understanding the business case, why a change is being requested and learning the desired future state.

• Focused on continuous learning, adopting probe and learn approach for self-learning

• Leverages knowledge of the product’s value stream and system interactions toidentifywhen new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value.

• Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements.

• Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)

• Communicates stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and writes definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering.

• Facilitates product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest. Responsible formaintainingproduct technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.

• Adept at building relationship with business, technology partners toestablisha circle of trust with stakeholders.

• Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership,healthand non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.).

• Cultivates trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision,goalsand priorities.

• Leads sprintplanning,storyrefinement ,feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders.

• Activelyparticipatesin planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team’s work creates the iterative value (e.g.supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams).

• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
  Participates in team standups, and retrospectives,facilitatesdialog with stakeholders during sprint reviews/product demos.

• Identifies,monitorsand communicates technical product health metrics and KPIs and advocates for product improvements with Business/Technology partners.

• Manages allocation of team capacity to ensureappropriate levelsareutilizedfor product health improvements and reduction of technical debt (e.g.integration and deployment of tooling, test automation, etc.)

• Leverages agility tools (e.g., Jira) and implements strategies tooptimizeteam performance and achieve overall departmentobjectives(e.g., manage story aging, manage WIP, epic size/throughput, etc.).

• As a member of the team, drives complex projects from anend-to-endperspective, understanding the business logic end to end and helping orchestrate requirements with all cross functional dependency teams.

• Ability to be succinct and crisp inrepresentingstories,risksand updates. Ability to provide program updates to Sr leaders at various level as required by project/ program.

• Detail oriented andpossessesexcellent task management, documentation skills 

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Agile experience requiredpreferablyAgileSAFecertified.

• JIRA/Jira Align, Aha Product, Draw IO, MPP

• Exposure on Data Modeling, Data analysis, Test Data creation

• Proven Experience in Product roadmap and Backlog creation

• Able to analyze Java, Cobol, PLSQL programs

• Strong in Cross team collaboration – UI/UX, Scrum teams (Own & Interdependent), Delivery leaders, BPO, SRE, Security, Legal & Compliance...etc.

• Prior experience in facilitation of PI Planning,Path togreen, ART & SOS...etc.

• Expertiseof PBM or Healthcare domain

• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills

• Ability to navigate difficult discussions using data as evidence for best next steps and resolution.

• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders, executionteamsand peers.

RequiredExperience& Education 

• 11-13years ofYears’ experiencein software development or maintenance

• College degree (Bachelor) in related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience.

• Demonstrate ability to perform root cause analysis and suggest rectification options.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills – Should be able to provide technical and functional impact summary of the managed incidents

• Development/ Design experience preferred

• PreviousProduct Management experience driving complex business productsrequired

• Certification in Product Management preferred; not mandatory.

• Proventrack recordof excellent communication and stakeholders

Location & Hours of Work

• Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate

• Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India in a hybrid working model (3 days WFO and 2 days WAH)