Job description
SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER
Covetrus is a global animal-health technology and services company dedicated to empowering veterinary practice partners to drive improved patient health and financial outcomes. Headquartered in Portland, Maine, with more than 5,000 employees and more than 100,000 global customers, our passion for the well-being of animals and those who care for them drives us to advance the world of veterinary medicine. In the USA, we bring together products, services, and technology into a single platform that connects our customers to the solutions and insights they need to work best. Now, our mission is to bring this technology to veterinarians and their clients worldwide.
SUMMARY
The Senior Product Owner is responsible for product execution throughout the product lifecycle, including conducting research, creating and aligning product strategy with corporate strategy, defining the product roadmap, requirements gathering and documentation, release management and readiness of their products, measuring the effects of these activities, and using metrics to feedback into the process. This role has an additional critical function of working closely with other product managers to align roadmaps and works closely with other stakeholders to define the product strategies. This role requires strong analytical skills, collaboration with development teams, business teams, and key stakeholders to document requirements and deliver scalable solutions to the end user. Working in an agile environment, this position collaboratively partners across administrative and functional areas of the company
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Communicate clear priorities and status of roadmap items to all stakeholders. Responsible for maintaining relationships and understanding expectations.
- Work closely with internal customers in order to understand customer issues and propose solutions.
- Manage, coordinate, and establish priorities for complete product life-cycle including the planning, design, development, testing, implementation, and commercialization of business solutions.
- Owning the team backlog (grooming, prioritization and refinement)
- Informing and influencing the Product Management roadmap
- Responsible for translating the overall vision into tactics for a particular product
- Sets the quality standard for delivery as well as user story elaboration and establishment of story acceptance criteria
- Defines minimum viable product (MVP)
- Responsible for assigned product level key performance indicators (KPI’s) and managers product(s) with a high degree of scope, complexity and strategy
- Leads problem resolution as needed to ensure that internal and external customers receive prompt, efficient service
- Work with cross-company product managers to ensure strategic product roadmaps are successfully
- Implement key metrics for product features and analyze metrics to verify objectives are progressing as planned.
- Initiate marketing strategies, maintain product development roadmaps, and execute product launch activities.
- Participate in and foster a working environment where creativity, innovation, ownership, and teamwork are encouraged and rewarded.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- None
QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Business/Marketing Degree with Computer Science minor, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of software product management/business analyst experience
- Experience in an AGILE working environment
- Industry experience in IT-enabled healthcare or animal health is highly desirable.
- Exposure to project management/information sharing tools like JIRA, Confluence, Lucid Charts, Balsamiq, etc. highly desirable.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
- PSM/PSPO
- SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) POPM preferred
COMPETENCIES (SKILLS AND ABILITIES)
- Deep understanding of Agile product lifecycle; including planning, development, and implementation.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, active listening, analytical, and financial skills.
- Strong leadership capabilities with experience in managing cross-functional teams, especially in highly leveraged, fast growth environments.
- Internal and external (customer-facing) presentation and training skills
- Leadership and participation in cross-functional teams
- Thrives in a fast-moving environment, working on a variety of projects and technologies in an iterative, team-based culture
- Ability to think critically and creatively and to contribute in a team environment.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Extensive computer work
- Some Travel May be Required
Covetrus is an equal
opportunity/affirmative
action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Jobs that are in Colorado:
If you are a Colorado applicant, you are eligible to receive information about the salary range and benefits for this role. Please contact
recruitment@covetrus.com
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