Senior Product Owner

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

We are looking for a Senior Product Owner to help shape and deliver Roche’s new innovative data platform and ecosystem that delivers and connects our diagnostics and digital products to our laboratory and hospital customers.

The Product Owner (PO) is the member of the Agile Team/Squad that acts as the ‘voice of the customer’ for the agile team. The PO contributes to the Vision and Roadmap, clearly communicating the vision to the team, accepting stories, and continuously refining and prioritising the team backlog.

You will be responsible 

• Lead definition phase to build the delivery backlog.

• Lead refinements with development team in order to plan the delivery of value (sprint /iteration planning)

• Support Business Product Manager to process some customer requests and prioritise the discovery backlog within.

• Contribute as part of the Product Management Team to the preparation of the

• features/enablers backlog, ensuring preparedness for next Product Increments ( PI(s))

• Socialise incoming features and enablers with the development team in order to elicit early feedback and preparedness for the next PI, in line with the PI objectives.

• Continuously ensure that the prepared backlog consists of items which maximise value whilst minimising cost, requiring scoping correctly the features with input from architecture+security, development and UX concerns.

• Learn and fully understand all functionalities of the product

• Manage the requirements baseline for the product

Your profile

• Experience working in agile methodologies. SAFe is a plus.

• Experience working with Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Trello,...)"

• Ability to map customer needs to their solutions

• Analytical skills, negotiation, experience in writing stories and/or technical requirements

• Comfortable in presenting and running demos of working software, and speaking to the development team from a user’s perspective

• Background in software development is a plus.

• Background in laboratory workflows, healthcare or biomedical engineering is a plus

Moreover, you bring

● Leadership skills to move forward and ensure the delivery of the commitments

● The capacity to question established norms and practices in order to achieve desired outcomes

● Focus on project results aligned with the strategic vision

● Experience in product management within the health domain

● A strong desire to understand and learn about global customer needs

● The proficiency to perform adequate stakeholder management and guide the process to a successful outcome

● Good communication and negotiation skills

● The skill to understand and translate customer requirements into clear, practical, and well-organized expectations

Locations

You will be based in Pune, India. 

As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.

Leadership Skills

You are also responsible for building, and then providing effective influential leadership. Doing so in a manner that is consistent with the Roche Values and leadership capabilities. You will seek to inspire and lead teams to create transformative solutions, and to influence their prioritization and uptake in the wider organization, in order to ensure that customer solutions are at the forefront of the market and deliver its optimal contribution to the Roche Diagnostics Vision.

Both Diagnostics and Diabetes Care Leadership teams use these skills when referring to leadership. Consider bringing them into the job description. 

The Senior Product Owner is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are: 

• Put patients first

• Follow the science

• Act as one team

• Embrace differences

• Accelerate learning

• Simplify radically

• Make impact now

• Think long term

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.