Junior Product Owner

Junior Product Owner

CPA Analytics Platform for Longitudinal Patient Data [LRx])

Portugal

Home-based/Remote

As a Junior Product Owner, you will act as the Execution / Operative Product Owner for an analytics platform used to analyze longitudinal patient-level prescription data (LRx) across multiple countries. You will own the day-to-day product execution: managing the backlog, running operational prioritization, and ensuring predictable delivery in a Scrum setup (2-week sprints) for a global, ~10-person engineering team. You will work closely with the Senior Product Owner (strategic/vision ownership) and represent the product in operational forums when needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Backlog ownership (operational): Maintain, refine, and prioritize the product backlog on an operational level; translate user needs into clear epics/user stories with acceptance criteria; ensure items are understood, implementable, and testable.
• Scrum execution & delivery management: Drive sprint readiness (refinement, grooming), support sprint planning, and manage scope, dependencies, and delivery risks; keep delivery transparent through structured reporting and status communication.
• Stakeholder & user enablement: Work directly with internal users (analysts; BD/Sales for feasibility) to capture requirements, improve onboarding, and continuously strengthen service/support and user experience.
• Data/tech collaboration: Partner with the technical lead/Scrum Master and the engineering team to ensure reliable implementation, including coordination around ETL/integration topics and platform operations (“keep-the-lights-on”).
• Quality & release readiness: Support definition of “done”, validate outcomes in demos, and ensure releases meet agreed expectations; collaborate on post-release follow-up to verify outcomes and learnings.
• Compliance-aware execution: Ensure delivery aligns with GDPR requirements and country/environment constraints (e.g., L2/L3 separation as applicable). (This is a role expectation based on your input; not sourced from the internal templates.)

What You Bring

• Excellent analytical capability and comfort working with longitudinal patient data concepts (time series, cohorts, persistence, switching, adherence-style constructs).
• Strong SQL skills (advanced querying; ability to validate datasets, investigate anomalies, and support analytic workflows).
• Hands-on ETL understanding (pipelines, transformations, data quality checks, lineage basics).
• Excel-based analytics expertise including ODBC connectivity, PivotTables, and operational workflows that bridge database access with analysis outputs.
• Practical experience in Scrum delivery (or equivalent agile delivery) and the ability to keep a team moving with clarity and structure.

Nice to Have

• Ability to translate “classic” Excel + ODBC analytics patterns into modern analytics/compute environments (e.g., Python, Spark/Scala) to stay close to the platform’s technical direction.
• Prior Product Owner experience (preferred, not mandatory), or a strong background as an analyst/practitioner with clear ambition to grow into product ownership.

Ways of Working

• Remote-first collaboration with globally distributed stakeholders and teams; communication is primarily online.
• Close partnership with a Scrum Master who also acts as technical lead and contributes to development (hands-on environment).

Growth Opportunity

• This role is designed for someone who wants to grow from execution-focused product ownership into broader end-to-end ownership over time, with structured mentoring from the Senior Product Owner and increasing responsibility as the platform evolves.

Why Join?

Those who join us become part of a recognized global leader still willing to challenge the status quo to improve patient care. You will have access to the most cutting-edge technology, the largest data sets, the best analytics tools and, in our opinion, some of the finest minds in the Healthcare industry.

You can drive your career at IQVIA and choose the path that best defines your development and success. With exposure across diverse geographies, capabilities, and vast therapeutic and information and technology areas, you can seek opportunities to change and grow without boundaries.

Regardless of your role, we invite you to reimagine healthcare with us. You will have the opportunity to play an important part in helping our clients drive healthcare forward and ultimately improve human health outcomes.

It's an exciting time to join and reimagine what's possible in healthcare.

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