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**

As a Senior Product Owner, your role forms part of the Imaging Product Group and is responsible for facilitating the generation and maximization of value from our products and services for our customers, both internal and external.

You will take accountability 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) 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 the product requirements.

**Detailed Accountabilities**:
**Product Backlog Management & Requirements**:

- Takes ownership for work on large initiatives (epics/capabilities) and assists with more complex change initiatives.
- Elicits, identifies, documents, and refines requirements from business problems detailed in features into user stories and acceptance criteria that may include technical requirements.
- Ensures Non-Functional requirements are captured and recorded in the acceptance criteria in user stories.
- Prioritizes the user stories in the product backlog (with business stakeholders and Product Manager), to ensure the items with the highest business value are at the top of the backlog and being worked on by the delivery team.
- Ensures the product backlog is clearly communicated to business stakeholders and reflects their requirements.
- Supports Product Managers on the refinement of features.

**Product Delivery**:

- Leads and influences one or more cross-functional agile delivery teams to execute, and delivers on, product requirements.
- Works closely with the delivery team on a day-to-day basis, to action features/user stories.
- Participates and plays a lead role in SAFe ceremonies, scrum meetings, sprint demos, retros and product sprints with the delivery team.
- Represents the “voice of the customer” at the delivery team level by ensuring the product backlog items are visible and clear.
- Maintains metrics on the progress of the Team backlog and team deliverables.
- Monitors the quality of the deliverables by managing defects.
- Defines and refines the delivery roadmap and drives what goes into each release.
- Provides updates on project outcomes to clients or customers.
- Plays an active role in release activities, ensuring the relevant documentation is in place.
- Identifies, records and mitigates operational and technical risks on own initiative.
- Follows agreed standards and ensures all relevant documentation is maintained in accordance with relevant regulatory guidelines and SOP’s ensuring all relevant stakeholders are updated.
- Follows and is a leading advocate of the standard Product Owner practices and processes, ensures adherence and support in the definition of these standards.
- Owns the delivery of the Functional Requirements Specification (FRS).

**Functional Leadership**:

- Provides coaching and support to the Product Owners in the group to help them develop and refine skills.
- Guides and leads, from a functional basis, one or more Product Owners on specific projects by distributing work and supporting them during the end-to-end process.
- Leads by example and provides clear direction and guidance to other Product Owners and is accountable for performance.

**Relationship management**:

- Engages and influences wide variety and level of stakeholders including senior management, making recommendations on initiatives.
- Engages with stakeholders and end-users to gather feedback, understands their needs, and relays this information to the delivery team.
- Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
- Manages expectations of stakeholders on what is being delivered / released and what is not being delivered.
- Helps develop and enhance stakeholder relationships.

**Business analysis**:

- Leads investigating operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions through improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes.
- Leads the analysis