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Senior Product Owner - Data & AI

Merck Healthcare

Spain Hybrid

English

Employment Type: Full-time, Part-time
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Job Description

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

We are seeking a seasoned technical Product Owner with significant experience in the Data & AI domain to lead the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our internally built products in Healthcare R&D. This role is crucial in leveraging Data and AI to accelerate and enhance our R&D initiatives, ultimately fostering the discovery and development of new drugs. You will be responsible for defining the product vision, expected business value, and impact, defining and executing the product roadmap and evaluating its impact on the business.

Acting as the primary liaison between R&D end users, business stakeholders as well as the engineering and architecture teams, you will define the product roadmap and ensure seamless integration with other systems and processes within our global R&D Data and AI landscape. This will also require you to engage in user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate the product's functionality, usability, and performance. Furthermore, you will continuously gather feedback from end users and regularly communicate product roadmap updates across the organization. Your proactive approach will be essential in identifying new product growth opportunities, as well as potential risks or roadblocks, and proposing mitigating strategies to ensure successful roadmap delivery.

In addition to these responsibilities, you will champion a product mindset and focus on business value throughout the organization, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Staying up to date with emerging technologies and industry best practices related to data analysis, ML, especially FMs, will be vital in enhancing the effectiveness of the product. You will report to the Head of Product Management in the Healthcare Digital, Data & IT organization.

You will join a multicultural team working in agile methodologies and having high autonomy in decision-making. This role can be remote in Spain or our office onsite in Barcelona. Infrequent travel to Darmstadt might be required.

Who You Are

  • Master´s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or a related field.
  • Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role, preferably in developing enterprise data platforms or data-related products.
  • Ability to envision long-term product success and craft clear and actionable product roadmaps to achieve the strategic company’s goals.
  • Good conceptional understanding of the data and AI ecosystem, data flows and architecture, ML, and FMs.
  • Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and DevOps methodologies and experience in managing backlog items, sprint planning, and sprint reviews.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and a strong sense of ownership.
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and prioritize tasks effectively.
  • Experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences R&D domain is very beneficial.
  • Fluency in English is essential.

If you are curious and ambitious to take up this challenge, apply today and be in the driver's seat to bring our D&A landscape to the next level. Your contribution will make a lasting impact on our customers and our organization!

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

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About the Company

Life is a beautiful gift and health is what allows us to enjoy it. That is why we are deeply committed to helping patients. No matter how complex or rare the disease may be, we don‘t give up. Our ~17,800 Healthcare employees wake up every day motivated by our purpose: To help create, improve and prolong lives – as one for patients.We are the Healthcare business of Merck, and the only pharmaceutical company that is developing solutions along the whole “circle of life”. For over 350 years, patients have always been at the heart of everything we do.Our pioneering work in cancer treatment is focused on discovering, developing and delivering science-driven breakthrough therapies that turn cancer patients into cancer survivors. Our tireless passion for R&D as well as a creative and focused approach help accelerate innovation in oncology and immuno-oncology.

To realize our ambition, we’ve created a balanced portfolio. Our core business helps provide a strong foundation, fund innovation and mitigate risks. Our specialty portfolio enables us to be on the frontlines of change and truly become a specialty innovator.We have a proud history of advancing care in immunology for people living with chronic progressive diseases such as multiple sclerosis. For more than two decades we have maintained our commitment to delivering innovative solutions across treatment, devices, and support services. This dedication drives the research and development of our pipeline products and our efforts to address areas of unmet medical need.

Today, we are a global market leader in the field of fertility treatments. Our therapeutic portfolio, devices and advanced fertility technologies have helped many couples achieve their dream of having a baby. Everyone should have the opportunity to become a parent. To date, more than 5 million babies have been brought into the world with the help of our leading fertility products.

Imprint: merckgroup.com/imprint

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