Product Owner - Chertsey, United Kingdom - Go-To Outsourcing

Go-To Outsourcing

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Chertsey, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

JOB ROLE:
PRODUCT OWNER

Pay:
Up to £60k

Summary

CliniSys Group is the industry-leading supplier in the UK and Europe of clinical laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and Order Comms software, and the proud creator of market-leading products known as WinPath, GLIMS, DaVinci, ICE and CyberLab.

Our systems help healthcare professionals test, diagnose, and treat millions of patients every day, helping save or improve their quality of life.

Due to continued growth, we are looking for a Product Owner, tasked with creating our market-leading products, and the next generation of software.

This role is an integral part of the product management function.

The principle focus of this role is to orchestrate the day-to-day definition, prioritisation and tracking of the product and sprint to deliver successful product releases on time and on budget, that align with the product and business strategies and goals.

Key Responsibilities

Product Management Function
Work as an integral member of the Product Management function, the role of which is to maintain the product strategy and product release roadmap and their alignment with CliniSys business objectives.
Working with product management, domain experts and customers to fully specify detailed user stories for features and technical components.
Backlog, requirements, and release planning
Maintain and groom a prioritised backlog of features and user stories ready for assigning to a product release
Plan and scope successive product releases that incrementally deliver value to customers, forming the product roadmap
Confirm and manage customer expectations to minimise scope creep for a release
Prepare and present material for the key milestones of the CliniSys Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) gates to the wider stakeholder group
Establish story acceptance criteria and contribute to the story review process
Ensure UX designs are prepared and agreed on time, for use in demonstrating the vision
Prioritise work tactically within sprints to maximise engineering productivity, setting the goals, and delivering demonstrable value in each
Agile team role
Ensure the team understands the project goals and what the successful release looks like
Work with and coordinate business analysts as required
Be the voice of the customer and provide a business perspective on value
Assist the team to solve complex realworld challenges
Provide quick 'just in time' decisions to system level questions and defect triage
Coordinate 3rd party system integrators to drive process on schedule
Coach and mentor junior product owners
Promote the product management function and the profession
Process and tracking
Support the CliniSys Agile Software Development Lifecycle process
Look for continual improvements in the product management process
Ensure product changes align with expectations before approval gateways
Track delivery of engineering projects and releases
Provide key performance metrics to Product leadership on the delivery and benefits of each iteration
Keep customers and other stakeholders (particularly Delivery) informed of the status of the product releases
Develop and when necessary, deliver concise and meaningful training, demonstrations or presentations for internal stakeholders and external audiences as required

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

As a Product Owner, you should:

Have the ability to plan and manage the development project from start to finish.
Be willing and able to learn about complex, technical software products from various sources knowledge transfers, feature descriptions, documentation, and experimentation.
Be detail oriented, with strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
Be mindful of the product goals and reiterate those to the team with regular frequency.
Have a good understanding of the commercialisation of products, and to present entrepreneurial thinking from the team to leadership as it arises.
Ensure that the product(s) meet the customer needs, whilst remaining aligned with the Product vision and strategy.
Have excellent organisational, leadership, and communication skills, both written and verbal.
Be able to delegate requirements analysis duties to business analysts where required and track their progress so they deliver on time for when they are needed by you and your team.
Be solution, technology and team facing.

Qualifications and experience

Certified Scrum Alliance Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or equivalent
Strong understanding of agile development practices and scrum
Strong understanding of a software development lifecycle
05 yearsexperience of a Product Owner leading a team in an agile environment
Any experience in healthcare and life sciences highly desirable

This role will be based from our
Chertsey or Glasgow office, with the ability to work from home a number of days per week