Product Owner & Technical Lead

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Job Description
Product Owner & Technical Lead
The Future Begins Here
At Takeda, we are creating a future-ready organization that uses data and digital to meet the needs of patients, our people, and the planet. We need your help to make this happen. Join our new Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia.
In this role at our state-of-the-art center, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and create solutions that will benefit patients around the world. Become the heart of our internal innovation engine.
At Takeda we unite in diversity
Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where individuals are recognized for the diverse backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continually improving workplace experience and accessibility for everyone, and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our Team.
The Opportunity
As a Product Owner & Technical Lead you will play a pivotal role in building the future of HR through technology. You will lead the design and delivery of HR Digital Partner [the Product] - an advanced Conversational AI companion, designed to empower our HR Teams, enhance HR experiences, and simplify, standardize, and automate HR processes.
Responsibilities

• Manage key relationships with business and function stakeholders in HR, DDT and other BUs to surface and deliver on business opportunities and outcomes.
• Lead the development of multiple product strategies, long-term roadmaps and drive the product priority-setting of capabilities and features in response to business needs.
• Proactively monitor and maintain product related end-to-end customer/business experiences and influence relevant stakeholders to support and deliver successful product releases.
• Prioritize the backlog and investments to optimize time savings and employee satisfaction across the enterprise to maximize ROI.
• Engage and align with HR stakeholders and DDT on current business plans, strategies and future opportunities and developments, providing product recommendations to build a pipeline of meaningful releases.
• Engage key stakeholders across business and technology to understand their capability and feature needs to drive the development of a product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Use broad knowledge of AI and Intelligent Automation to develop prototypes and to develop a roadmap for ongoing and new product developments.
• Work closely with development teams to create new business product releases focusing on additional and/or new functionality, product simplification and enhancements.
• Drive the product planning fitting in long-term roadmaps and aligned with short-term release plans.
• Drive prioritization of the product backlog to keep agile teams unblocked and aligned.
• Manage and take responsibility for sustainability of the end-to-end customer experience of developed product.
• Estimate approximate workload requirements and timeline predictions for the development team and continuously monitor and prioritize product developments and workflow and capacity to deliver the most value to users.
• Communicate issues and successes up and down in project groups, HR and DDT partners.
• Oversee and manage product budgets, established in consultation with stakeholders, by balancing new development and ongoing maintenance of the product.
• Monitor and refine the product in partnership with service management teams to continuously optimize user experiences.
• Partner with the Change Management Lead to deliver organizational change management (OCM) and documentation about product to ensure business readiness for product releases/evolution.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment, manage expectations, and address concerns related to deployment of new tools and processes.
• Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging tools related to HR technologies.
• All other duties reasonably required of the position.

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 10 years or more of relevant professional experience.
• Experience as senior product owner or lead designing digital experiences
• 6 years of more experience leading IT projects in SCRUM / Lean / Kanban methodologies
• Proven track record of getting things done in complex organizations
• Understanding and experience with the capabilities of GenAI & Intelligent Automation Frameworks
• Experience in stakeholder relationship management. Influence in orchestrating key stakeholders and product teams to turn product vision into reality.
• Familiarity working in a lean and agile software delivery team.
• Work with virtual/agile teams in various locations, aligning and adapting different work, culture, and communication styles.

Preferred:

• Experience with data driven product design using metrics to drive product decisions
• Focus on continuous improvement and experience with change management and internal communications
• Ability to influence across business units
• Professional in-depth knowledge of technology product management in pharmaceutical industry.
• Extensive experience in design or implementation of solutions or products, and preferably experience in quality improvement.
• Understanding of design thinking and ability to explain technical concepts and convince stakeholders.
• Extensive project management experience.
• Proven track record of developing and exploiting deep customer insights as an accomplished practitioner of design thinking.
• Demonstrated experience and success in creative problem solving.

What Takeda Can Offer You
At Takeda, you may build your career, while contributing to better people's lives. Expect trust driven culture built around Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance. Joining ICC will give you access to high end technology, training and colleagues who will support your growth.
Salary
As a motivated employee, you should be compensated appropriately. The minimum salary for this position is € 4450 per month (full time), but your final remuneration package may be higher depending on your qualifications and experience.
Benefits
Here are a few benefits our employees are enjoying at Takeda. To get a full picture of what we are offering, follow this link.

• Cafeteria
• Medical - High standard medical care
• Bridge days
• Summer Hours
• Multisport Card

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Locations
SVK - Bratislava - Svatoplukova
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time