Full-Time

Director – Product Owner

Change Control

Posted on 2/4/2025

MSD

MSD

Compensation Overview

$169.7k - $267.2kAnnually

+ Bonus + Long Term Incentive

Expert

No H1B Sponsorship

North Wales, PA, USA + 1 more

More locations: Linden, NJ, USA

Hybrid work model requires three days on-site per week.

Category
Product Management
Product
Required Skills
Dataiku
SAP Products
Requirements
  • 10 years of Pharmaceutical Industry experience. Quality/Regulatory and Digital Enablement experience strongly preferred.
  • Experience designing, simplifying, and digitizing pharmaceutical industry quality management systems processes.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage complex projects, and drive organizational change.
  • Proven experience as a Technical Product Owner, able to define and prioritize product backlogs and collaborate effectively with development teams.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts to senior leadership.
  • Proficiency with Veeva Vault, Trackwise, SAP, Dataiku, and other relevant software for quality management and change control.
Responsibilities
  • Develop value maps, product roadmaps, and lead roadmap discussions with various stakeholders, communicating the results to the technical teams.
  • Understand, prioritize, and develop strategically aligned IT solutions which deliver maximum business value.
  • Ensure that Change Control Digital Solutions are true enablers to standard processes and ensure that all enhancements are consistent with this global design.
  • Define requirements, translate them between the development and business-facing teams, and document them for GxP systems.
  • Drive continuous product discovery to understand user needs and translate that to solutions and product backlog.
  • Create, maintain, and continuously prioritize the product backlog to maximize value delivery and long-term sustainability.
  • Work with Product Managers to develop and convey accurate and realistic project plans, resource estimates, and timelines in alignment with prioritized business requirements.
  • Ensure all IT systems are designed, built, and operated in an SDLC compliant manner and promote the effective use of IT standards and tools.
  • Lead the end-to-end development of systems and technology blueprints and product roadmaps.
  • Establish strong working relationships with business and technology leaders to align investment planning, portfolio planning, and execution with these roadmaps and architectures.
  • Monitor and optimize the product's total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Develop and regularly calibrate metrics of the Digital Products.
  • Drive release and support planning and execution (go to market).
  • Connect delivery squads with the customers and facilitate direct communication.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with data science, AI implementation, data engineering, or other adjacent technical fields.
  • Ability to partner with business stakeholders and navigate across conflicting priorities to balance critical tactical and strategic needs.
  • Strategic thinker, with demonstrated ability to work in a broad and top-down manner with a fair amount of ambiguity at the center.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions and solve complex technical problems.
  • Ability to effectively collaborate and communicate with a variety of audiences and stakeholders, including executive management, business leaders, IT peers, and colleagues worldwide.
  • Extensive experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.
  • Experience with Veeva QMS, Change Control or adjacent business processes, and SAP ERP (a plus).
  • Experience in implementation of large global cloud platforms in the pharma and life sciences industry.

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