Product Owner

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Job Description

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE (3-4 bullets)

• Product Owner is a specialist with years of experience and works independently on tasks with high cross-product complexity. Inputs for his/her work are given mainly directly by other stakeholders. Works independently on assigned tasks and may help less experienced members of chapter when necessary

• One of main responsibilities is to gather, analyze and document software specifications and may assign small complexity tasks to less experienced members of a chapter if needed

• Advise less experienced analyst/s in effectively analyzing complex end-to-end business processes and eliciting business requirements and needs, including identification of business needs

• It is expected to be active part in creation of analysis standards in Takeda. It is also expected to know Takeda environment and products / systems on a high level

• Responsible as a main analyst for dedicated area and is a first contact point for all complex cross-product changes and issues

• Consults and advice business regarding complex changes, projects, or programs

• It is expected that the output will be on a desired level according to company standards

• Close cooperation with development, product/platform owners, QA and others is expected on daily basis including validation of user stories, QA and other outcomes.

• Represent Analysis Chapter as a role model and advocate of the Business Analyst role outside of the Chapter

SCOPE

• Works with the business to identify the challenges and opportunities for Agentic AI to make an impact
• Ensure that analytical outputs are complete, consistent, understandable, achievable, unambiguous, verifiable and in line with established standards
• Process and decompose internal customer requirements into specifications and smaller blocks like epics, user stories
• Works with teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, demo and training, defining support procedures
• Provides continuous updates to stakeholders and Project Lead during project delivery, communicate changes, problems, and ambiguities in a timely manner

• Possesses in-depth knowledge of analysis methodologies and its capabilities, forms the bridge between the business and the team of testers and developers during successful delivery of projects.

Financial:

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Leadership/People:

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ACCOUNTABILITIES (Describe the primary duties and responsibilities of the job.  Include only the essential functions of the job. Approximately 5 – 10 bulleted task statements should be identified

• Expert product owner in defined area and is responsible for overall process and strategy for dedicated area
• Gather and analyze requirements from internal customers in form of discussions, workshops, and others
• Process and decompose internal customer requirements into specifications and smaller blocks like user stories
• Gather and incorporate suggestions from stakeholders into analytical outputs
• Maintain and manage changes in documentation and outputs for assigned parts of software
• Create and update analytical outputs like software specifications and their components
• Review and control internal outputs within the analytical team or chapter
• Collaborate in defining, implementing, and improving processes, policies, and tools related to analysis
• Prepare reports for the project manager / direct manager and present the results of the analysis
• Ensure that analytical outputs are complete, consistent, understandable, achievable, unambiguous, verifiable and in line with established standards   
• Deliver tasks on time and in the required quality
• Manage the delivery team
• Participate in story pointing, backlog grooming and prioritization
• Participate in daily scrum call       
• Use and follow set standards and processes
• Understand the capabilities of agentic AI(Agentforce), Salesforce datacloud, Einstein 1 Platform and marketing cloud
• Understand best practices around GENETIC AI, understand guardrails and principles
• Able to translate the business problem into user stories
• Able to map business capabilities maps into agentforce and data cloud capabilities map
• Able to design different agents to drive business values

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise(Breadth and depth of knowledge, application and complexity of technical knowledge)

• Ability to create tactical plans that support the execution of a broader strategy, ability to decompose high-level information into small parts, abstract small parts into large picture
• Ability to find missing information and coordinate gathering of inputs on his own
• 5+ years experience in Salesforce area
• 5+ years experience in Product Ownership
• Deep knowledge of relevant lifescience domains/products/journeys
• Confident and skilled at identifying and navigating through roadblocks
• Knowledge on Agentforce, Data cloud including LLM – ChatGpt, Gemini, Gpt4.0 etc
• Experience in Agile development
• Certification in SAFE Agile principles, SAFE Product Owner

Leadership(Vision, strategy and business alignment, people management, communication, influencing others, managing change)

• Ability to cooperate with people directly or indirectly (matrix structure)
• Ability to govern people from external resources
• Provide guidance and advise business analysts in dedicated area
• Ability to effectively engage stakeholders and support them in their “Agile” journey; making sure that products owners and project stakeholders are aware and understand their roles in delivering a successful product
• Ability to influence and build consensus amongst peers and less experienced analysts
• Facilitates a culture which is open for innovation and remove barriers
• Communicates the impact of various projects to leadership team

Decision-making and Autonomy(The capacity and authority to make organizational decisions, autonomy in decision-making, complexity of decisions, impact of decisions, problem-solving)

• Able to balance the needs of the business team and delivery team when managing and prioritizing the project pipeline.
• Assertive, with the confidence to be a voice of authority and able to influence stakeholders.
• Ability to foster a learning and growth mindset within teams
• Ability to promote innovative thinking and self-development.

Interaction(The span and nature of one’s engagement with others when performing one’s job, internal and external relationships)

• Create and maintain an atmosphere of trust through facilitation of retrospectives and feedback exchange among team members.
• Help other teams and conventional parts of the organization build effective communication and interaction with the team.
• Coordinate interaction with other teams of one's own and other units.
• Coordinate interaction of internal and external resources within business analysis area

Complexity(Products managed, mix of businesses, internal and/or external business environment, cultural considerations)

• Clear obstacles and blockers in the team’s path (such as dependencies on other teams) and maintain a list of obstacles
• Contribute to product development to the extent of her or his competence
• Divide problems into smaller tasks and solve them effectively. Understands relations and trends in more complex tasks
• Lead the development of complex products, as well, contribute the design of operational processes to support the product.

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