Senior Product Owner

We’re on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

What can we offer you?

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

YOURSELF
• 25 days’ holiday (with the option to buy more)

HEALTH
• Health Cash Plan
• Optional private health, dental insurance, and health screens
• Cycle to work scheme

WEALTH
• Generous pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
• Life assurance
• Season ticket loan

About the role

Job Purpose

As Senior Product Owner, you'll form part of the Imaging Product Group and will be responsible for facilitating the maximisation of value from our products and services for our customers, both internal and external.

Working largely remotely, you'll be responsible for the delivery of large initiatives (projects / epics / capabilities), translating the product roadmap into a delivery roadmap, taking ownership of the Team Backlog (user stories) and delivering the features (via User Stories) for your assigned product, solution or epic. Working with two Agile delivery teams, you'll prioritise their work, participating in SAFe and scrum ceremonies, functionally guiding other Product Owners to completion and overseeing the end-to-end delivery process to execute product requirements.

Detailed Accountabilities

Product Backlog Management & Requirements

• Taking ownership of team backlog (user stories) and breaking down features into user stories for one or more products/applications.

• Taking ownership for work on large initiatives (epics/capabilities) and assisting with more complex change initiatives.

• Eliciting, identifying, documenting, and refining requirements from business problems detailed in features into user stories and acceptance criteria, including technical requirements.

• Ensuring Non-Functional requirements are being captured and recorded in the acceptance criteria in user stories.

• Prioritizing user stories in the product backlog (with business stakeholders and Product Manager), ensuring items with the highest business value are at the top of the backlog and being worked on by the delivery team.

• Ensuring the product backlog is being clearly communicated to business stakeholders and reflecting their requirements.

• Supporting Product Managers in refining features.

Product Delivery

• Leading and influencing one or more cross-functional agile delivery teams in executing and delivering product requirements.

• Working closely with the delivery team on a day-to-day basis, actioning features/user stories.

• Participating and playing a lead role in SAFe ceremonies, scrum meetings, sprint demos, retros, and product sprints with the delivery team.

• Representing the “voice of the customer” at the delivery team level by ensuring product backlog items are visible and clear.

• Maintaining metrics on the progress of the Team backlog and team deliverables.

• Monitoring the quality of deliverables by managing defects.

• Defining and refining the delivery roadmap and driving what goes into each release.

• Providing updates on project outcomes to clients or customers.

• Playing an active role in release activities, ensuring relevant documentation is in place.

• Identifying, recording, and mitigating operational and technical risks independently.

• Following agreed standards and ensuring all relevant documentation is maintained in accordance with regulatory guidelines and SOPs, keeping stakeholders updated.

• Following and advocating standard Product Owner practices and processes, ensuring adherence and supporting the definition of these standards.

• Owning the delivery of the Functional Requirements Specification (FRS).

Functional Leadership

• Providing coaching and support to Product Owners in the group to help develop and refine skills.

• Guiding and leading, from a functional basis, one or more Product Owners on specific projects by distributing work and supporting them throughout the end-to-end process.

• Leading by example and providing clear direction and guidance to other Product Owners, being accountable for performance.

Relationship Management

• Engaging and influencing a wide variety and level of stakeholders including senior management, making recommendations on initiatives.

• Engaging with stakeholders and end-users to gather feedback, understanding their needs, and relaying this information to the delivery team.

• Dealing with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.

• Managing stakeholder expectations on what is being delivered/released and what is not.

• Helping develop and enhance stakeholder relationships.

Business Analysis

• Leading investigations into operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.

• Leading the analysis of stakeholder objectives and underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, assisting in identifying options for consideration during the delivery process.

• Working iteratively with stakeholders to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and defining acceptance measures.

User Centricity Analysis

• Working closely with UX Design to ensure mock-ups are ready on time and accurately reflecting expected product design.

• Evaluating prototypes or designs of systems, products, or services against agreed usability and accessibility expectations.

• Interpreting and presenting results of evaluations and prioritizing issues.

• Working with Product Managers to detail user journeys (AS IS and TO BE) and user activities to better determine baseline metrics and identify areas for improvement or efficiency.

Business Process Improvement

• Analysing and designing business processes, identifying alternative solutions to exploit new technologies and automation.

• Developing graphical representations of business processes to facilitate understanding and decision-making.

• Analysing and designing assessments for feasibility of business process changes and recommending new approaches.

• Implementing business process improvement methods and tools at program, project and team level in line with agreed standards

Data Analysis

• Leveraging data analysis to extract meaningful insights, enabling informed and data-driven decision-making.

• Developing models and diagrams to represent and communicate data requirements and data assets.

What we're looking for

Functional Competencies (Technical knowledge/Skills)

• Detailed knowledge of the Medical Imaging domain area including modalities, equipment, Imaging endpoints, read criteria and viewers in the relevant Service Lines.

• A strong understanding of the SDLC and related technologies and an in-depth appreciation of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum and SAFe, UML, and orientated, Data Modelling using appropriate industry standards and/or other BA methodologies) and the associated behaviours.

• Demonstrable knowledge of Lean Six Sigma.

• Demonstrable knowledge of Root Cause Analysis.

• Demonstrable knowledge of risk identification, analysis and mitigation.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

• A flexible attitude concerning work assignments and new learning.

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail.

• Ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment. 

• Displays a product mindset with strategic and user-centric thinking.

• Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to solve problems and tasks. 

• Shows initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and can cope with changing and evolving priorities.

• Ability to identify and implement process improvements. 

• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate. 

• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative with ability to define owns path and drives work forward with little guidance or supervision.

• Adapts to new environments with little guidance.

• Confident presenter to peers and stakeholders, including senior management.

• Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques, and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain.

• A highly competent coach and trainer who leads by example with an approachable demeanour.

Experience and Certifications

• Professional experience as a Product Owner or in a very similar role.

• Experience of working in and knowledge of medical imaging in clinical trials within the life sciences sector - ideally as an SME in a specific area.

• Exposure to working with AI and cloud-native

• Familiarity with product lifecycle management tools.

• Experience in process Modelling using standards such as BPMN.

• Experience in Scope Management.

Education

• ​Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent QBE.

• English: fluent.

Come as you are.
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