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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies.

With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Product Owner to join our dynamic clinical innovation teams at PPD (a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific). This role will play a critical role in driving the development and success of our software products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and partners, to define and prioritize product requirements, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software solutions that meet customer needs.

This is a remote position for candidates based in Bulgaria & Poland.

This role acts as the voice of the client and serves as the go-to subject matter authority on systems, integrations, processes, and operations required to support our products. The Product Owner will function as a link between the development team and key collaborators, ensuring effective communication and alignment of expectations. You will drive the direction of our application software products through needs identification, research, vision-setting and prioritization.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough user research to gain insights into user needs, pain points, and translate them into product features and software requirements.

• Take ownership of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap by collaborating with critical partners, including the leadership team, clients, and the product team.

• Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure the timely delivery with the committed features.

• Conduct regular product demonstrations to team members, incorporating feedback and iterating on product features.

• Oversee the product release planning, feature backlog management, prioritization, and translate features into actionable epics and user experiences.

• Make critical decisions regarding functionality and priorities, always focused on delivering value and maintaining high quality.

• Define and measure key performance indicators to ensure customer satisfaction, engagement, and adoption.

• Manage timelines for implementation, delivery, and deadlines throughout the development process.

• Analyze the competitive landscape, trend reports, market statistics, and metrics to enhance our products.

• Apply collected feedback, collaborate with partners and the team, and recommend and implement changes accordingly.

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and other Agile ceremonies to ensure successful product delivery.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

• Previous software product management experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5-8 years’ experience)

• In some cases an equivalency, consisting of appropriate education, training, and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of CosmosDB, SQL, .NET, React JS and C# is a plus

• Knowledge of Life Sciences systems and business is a plus

• Deep understanding of product vision, product launch, and other related concepts

• Excellent communication skills for effective team communications. That includes working with cross-functional global teams at all levels within the organization.

• Proven organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.

• Strong technical foresight and system thinking approach.

• Consumer-centric focus with experience leading user experience components.

• Familiarity with UX/UI design principles and an understanding of user-centered design concepts

• Ability to articulate and clearly communicate sophisticated problems and solutions simply and logically.

• Proven record in effective requirement elicitation and analysis.

• Ability to see opportunities and risks/problems and propose solutions that drive improvements.

Management Role:

• No management responsibility

PPD values the health and well-being of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.

• Able to work upright and stationary for typical working hours.

• Ability to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.

• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.

• May require as-needed travel (0-25%).

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.