Product Owner (Sliedrecht, Netherlands)

Product Owner (Sliedrecht, Netherlands)

Our client is an international strategy company, predominantly specialising in the pharma & life science sector.

Within the healthcare sector, they operate in life sciences, medical services, biotech, and pharmaceutics, conducting business all over the globe, but their main clients and activities are currently based in the US and in Europe. They are seeking a Product Owner in Holland.

Role Purpose

As Product Owner you will ensure that the goals of clients and users are at the centre of the full product development life cycle from conception to deployment, iteration, and maintenance. You will focus on building SaaS/digital products and platforms that deliver the client's offer. You also play a key role in managing relationships between various internal teams, collaborating and supporting the timely and successful delivery of new products, and the maintenance and improvement of existing products and platforms. To this end, you will gather user and stakeholder input and requirements, and produce and lead project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Experience as a product owner can manage and develop a product or service through its full lifecycle to bring value to the client;
• Expertly engage with the client, listening, probing, and understanding their requirements and challenges and relay this back to the internal development team to ensure a fully customized client solution;
• In collaboration with IT/Consultancy colleagues, be the product expert, ambassador, and voice of the client;
• Strong collaborative/partner management skills and can communicate, sell in, and engage a variety of audiences, most notably the software development team;
• Participating in discussions related to current and future functionality and creative solutions;
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies and using agile tools and can suggest improvements to ways of working to improve team and product performance;
• Able to take high-level requirements and drill these down into detailed functional requirements;
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in a business or IT-related discipline or equivalent professional experience in a software development environment;
• Experience in business analysis/functional requirements in medium to large-scale programs;
• Experience in managing large technical and/or process-related projects;
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage, influence, negotiate and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders with often conflicting priorities and requirements;
• Confident in communicating with senior level management, client stakeholders, and end users using layman terms, both verbally and in written form;

• Strong communicator with the ability to listen, probe, and ask questions to uncover needs and objections;
• Fluent English language skills verbal and written; quality-oriented proposal writing and proposal management experience;
• Ideally but not a must:
  • 6+ years of professional IT experience with at least 2+ years contributing to architecture or requirements management;
  • 2+ years of programming experience with .NET
  • 2+ years of SQL DB knowledge

• Achievement-oriented with an entrepreneurial approach and the commitment to achieve the goal;
• Willing to travel, as needed.