Junior Technical Product Manager

<p style="text-align:left">Job Description</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h2>Our company’s Information Technology organization partners with colleagues across the business to help serve our patients and customers around the world. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation.</h2><p></p><h2>This role functions as a co-pilot to a Senior Technical Product Manager, helping to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of the product roadmap. This role offers a unique opportunity to work cross-functionally, connecting the technical and business worlds, and to synthesize and demystify unmet and unarticulated business requirements into actionable steps that drive product development. You will work with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high-value product solutions that improve how we plan and run clinical trials and regulatory submissions for our patients, partners, and colleagues.</h2><p></p><p><b>Responsibilities</b></p><p>·       Analyze business problems and translate requirements into actionable product backlog items and user stories. Incorporate input from Business System Owner (BSO) and other stakeholders to ensure alignment with strategic goals.</p><p>·       Support product team to prioritize high-impact work and continuously reassess priorities as new insights and data become available‑impact work and continuously re‑assess priorities as new insights and data become available</p><ul><li><p>Maintain and prioritize a healthy backlog of well-formed epics, features and user stories which align with the overall roadmap and serve as requirements for the delivery squad based on the objectives and Key results</p></li><li><p>Partner with squad members including but not limited to scrum masters, technical lead(s) and development team in release planning to manage high-quality product delivery leveraging Agile and Digital SDLC methodology</p></li><li><p>Conduct and/or participate in agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives).</p></li><li><p>Collaborate with engineering and design to ensure work is well refined, scoped and ready for delivery; accept user stories before they enter sprints.</p></li><li><p>Provide an escalation point for delivery issues or deconflicting dependencies that affect multiple teams across products. Capture dependencies for execution and focus on reducing impact.</p></li><li><p>Communicate product updates, progress, risks, and plans to stakeholders.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Experience and Skills</b></p><ul><li><p>Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.</p></li><li><p>2&#43; years of relevant work experience, with some Technical Product Management experience supporting Information Technology, Pharmaceutical Research, Clinical Trial Operations or related business areas.</p></li><li><p>Experience working in agile environments (scrum, kanban) and with agile teams.</p></li><li><p>Hands on with product tools such as Jira, Confluence, analytics platforms and common collaboration tools; comfortable producing roadmap artefacts and prioritization documentation.</p></li></ul><p>·       Possess the essence of a Product Mindset - discovery, creating delightful user experiences, and ensuring strong engineering execution.</p><ul><li><p>Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to quickly establish credibility and trust with a variety of stakeholders</p></li><li><p>Self-motivated, curious, and collaborative; able to foster an inclusive team culture across a global organization.</p></li><li><p>Proficiency in written and spoken English.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Preferred Qualifications</b></p><p>·       Experience in product strategy and roadmap development</p><ul><li><p>Ability to lead continuous discovery activities, like user research and usability testing, in partnership with UX/Design and BSO.</p></li><li><p>Skilled in maintaining and prioritizing a healthy backlog of epics, features, and user stories that align with the overall roadmap.</p></li><li><p>Ability to work effectively in regulated environments and partner with clinical, compliance, and quality teams when delivering regulated features.</p></li><li><p>Experience defining success metrics and continuously measuring and reporting progress against these metrics.</p></li><li><p>Previous experience in Life sciences and Pharma industry or Clinical operations domain</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>What we offer</b></p><ul><li><p><span>Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally</span></p></li><li><p><span>Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern</span></p></li><li><p><span>Competitive salary &amp; incentive pay</span></p></li><li><p><span>Pension and health insurance contributions</span></p></li><li><p><span>Internal reward system and referral scheme</span></p></li><li><p><b>5  </b><span>weeks annual leave, </span><b>5 </b><span>sick days, </span><b>15 </b><span>days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, </span><b>40  </b><span>paid hours annually for volunteering activities, </span><b>12 </b><span>weeks of parental contribution</span></p></li><li><p><span>Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card</span></p></li><li><p><span>Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes</span></p></li><li><p><span>Up-to-date laptop and iPhone</span></p></li><li><p><span>Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner </span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><i>Ready to take up the challenge? 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