Senior Product Owner

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The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India's epicenter of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda's recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.  

At Takeda's ICC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE

The Senior Product Manager leads a product initiative within Takeda to promote a unified vision. The Product Manager is primarily focused on the customer, the strategic product roadmap, and go to market strategy. The Product Owner further manages product delivery within the Takeda portfolio and is responsible for the day-to-day development and alignment of delivery to the strategic vision. The Product Owner is focused on delivery, release plans, and communicating progress to stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Management

• Understand GMSGQ Tier 5 business goals and Data, Digital, & Technology (DD&T) strategies, existing DD&T capabilities, enterprise DD&T strategy, and available DD&T products and/or services.
• Understand GMSGQ Tier 3 to Tier 5 end-user needs and behaviors.
• Understand, anticipate, and influence GMSGQ demand for DD&T products and services.
• Proactively engage and onboard potential customers of existing products.

Product Strategy & Planning

• Lead generation, capture, and screening of GMSGQ Tier 3 and 4 innovation ideas.
• Guide multiple product teams on definition of what GMSGQ enhancements, or new products, to offer customers based on their goals, needs, and strategies.

Customer Relationship Management

• Communicate how the product is meeting the business priorities and goals of the organizations (business, technology, and marketing).
• Work with partners in GMSGQ on OpU Level, technology, data, and ecosystem to accomplish product goals.
• Identify high priority / critical issues and provide solutions to GMSGQ Tier4 needs.

Product Delivery

• Provide recommendations on features needed for the product for future stages of development.
• Develop product vision and strategy and synchronize it with GMSGQ Tier 5 and Tier 4 Strategic Themes and Must Wins, product manager, and product owners of teams responsible for adjacent products.
• Lead 2-3 product teams through the process of defining product requirements ensuring they are complete, integral, consistent, and the sole source of requirements for the team.
• Prioritize features for the product roadmap with development teams and ensure successful product releases.
• Scope the MVP considering existing resource constraints and sustained development of the product.
• Oversee initiation and execution of continuous improvement efforts.
• Define product offering in terms of benefits, features, and customer journeys.
• Ensure scalability of products
• Innovate the existing product portfolio.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Build a backlog of user stories, prioritize items to achieve business goals and continuously update together with the team.
• Make sure the team correctly understands the requirements.
• Work with the scrum master, engineering manager, and design leads to align timelines, dependencies, and scope.
• Participate in the planning sprint to reaffirm priorities and confirm requirements.
• Interact with other teams and units as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-team tasks.
• Support the team in collecting ideas and setting priorities for prototyping and development.
• Develop a strategic customer engagement plan for the product and work with GMSGQ Business Owners and strategic partners across the organization to drive execution.
• Work with GMSGQ Business Owners and GDD&T and DD&T teams to prepare for customer launch and readiness.
• Introduce OKRs to make product teams performance visible to senior leadership.

Product Management

• Has ownership of the product strategy, product design, product development and product launch.
• Accountable for holistic product vision, delivery, and value realization across products.
• Set product strategy and plans consistent with corporate priorities and sets vision and direction for the team.
• Define vision that reflects customer and business needs, balancing long term, overall solution direction and short-term Agile release train (ART) vision.
• Confirm product teams comply with GDD&T architecture standards.
• Own the vision, marketing, and ROI for a particular product.
• Interface with customers and be accountable to define the requirements and scope of products to be built.

Product Delivery

• Be an influencer for the organization and the company.
• Demonstrate ability to attract talent from inside and outside of the company.
• Act as content authority over features and their associated acceptance criteria.
• Participate in planning, system demos, and the inspect and adapt workshop for their Agile release train.
• Manage the expectations of business owners and other stakeholders.

EDUCATION, BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS: 

Education / Experience:

Essential:

• Master's degree in computer science or in a Technical/Natural Science
• A relevant and significant experience in Digital, Data and Technology
• Stakeholder Management
• Developing & Implementing Strategies
• Customer Relationship Management
• Requirements Definition & Analysis
• Developing & Implementing Strategies
• Product Management
• Directing & Influencing Others
• GMSGQ Business Goals & Strategy
• Product Development & Delivery (e.g., MVP, v2.0)
• Backlog, Epic, & Story Management
• Teaming & Collaboration
• Deliver Customer Goals & Strategy
• Design Thinking, CX, and UI/UX Tool & Methodologies
• Agile, SDLC, and DevOps Tools & Methodologies (e.g., SAFe, CI/CD, Jira, Confluence)
• GDD&T Platforms, Services, & Standards (e.g., IaaS, PaaS, Architecture)
• Risk assessment
• Market opportunity sizing/ mapping
• Data sources and integrations

Preferred:

• Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry in a manufacturing, engineering, or quality assurance context.