10 Product Specialists Agile Business Analysts

This position may be offered to a candidate authorized to work in the US for his/her/their stated employer without any restrictions which would prevent the candidate from working on the proposed assignment for the duration of the assignment period.

The Managers can set up times for as early as the following day so please let me know the earliest your folks can interview. I will be sending off the MS Teams details for you once confirmed.

*Multiyear project.
*Please include details regarding Agile exp.
*will be looking for healthcare/ Pharma experience

Updates:
*They want to make sure they get someone who will be successful in the environment with releases running parallel larger/ concurrent projects and challenging timelines. Please include some examples of related size scope complexity etc so I can get an idea of experience.

*Focusing more on the Sr business analyst type profile. Theyll be doing tons of documentation research (sorting through thousands of documents) elicitation lots of handson/ on the ground work creating user stories themselves. So someone too high level project managing fully on the business side (some business is fine) etc is not going to work out.

UPDATED JD:

The Product Specialist (PS) is a member of the Agile Product Team responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing the
Team Backlog. This role is instrumental in partnering with the Product Owner (PO) to drive day to day development for Retail
Pharmacy initiatives that generate multimillion dollar business value to the organization and touch millions of consumers.
Responsible for working with the PO to streamline the execution of team priorities while maintaining the conceptual and
technical integrity of the features/ components for the team. This PS role will support the RxConnect Agile product team.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Team Backlog Maintenance/Prioritization with PO
Works with the lead PO to maintain the product backlog and facilitate decisionmaking on
stories bug fixes and technical debt as they move through stages in team Rally board
Collaborates with Agile teams to continuously review business needs refine priorities outline
deliverables
and identify and address dependencies opportunities and risks
Works with Product Managers and stakeholders to decompose features into prioritized user
stories that deliver value and tangible business results
Provides subject matter expertise explaining product vision and user stories to the team to
ensure requirements are understood and customer value is delivered
Collaborates with the Business Product Owner Product Manager Business Initiative Owner and
Solution Architect to clarify requirements

2. Sprint Planning/Sprint Execution with PO
Works with team to ensure user stories meet Definition of Ready before development starts
and meets the Definition of Done before accepting them as complete
Responsible for assuring a level of quality has been achieved by validating that the Story meets
acceptance criteria and has met acceptance tests; approves stories as complete
Responsible to update product management on Story status to align on delivery expectations
Participates in daily sprint ceremonies to facilitate quality and speed of delivery; holds team
accountable for what they committed to deliver
Works with team to establish regular cadence and manage capacity

3. Program Increment Planning in Partnership with PO
Maintains relationships within and outside the local team and prepares user stories for inclusion
in Program Increment (PI) Planning
Partner with Product Management who is responsible for the Program Backlog to assist in
preparing for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting
Collaborates with the team to produce the PI system demo and presents it to program stakeholders.

EDUCATION:
Bachelors Degree or equivalent work experience
PRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE:
3 years
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: In order of importance list specific skills or talents that a qualified incumbent should
possess (i.e. management of large staff computer applications subject knowledge etc.)
3 years required experience as Product Owner Business Analyst Consulting IT or related field.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Familiarity with agile processes such as scrum Kanban and/or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
2. Strong handson experience with Microsoft Office: Word Excel PowerPoint Visio
3. Experienced in user story writing
4. 1 years of leadership experience with ability to drive collaboration engage influence and inspire
cross functional teams

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Interviewing skills to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information

Listening skills to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say

Analytical skills to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources assess risk reconcile conflicts decompose highlevel information into details abstract up from lowlevel information to a more general understanding distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs and distinguish solution ideas from requirements

Reasoning and decisionmaking skills to determine and recommend solution alternatives that satisfy requirements while also meeting aggressive schedules and budgets

Working knowledge of Microsoft applications (Excel Word Visio)

Ability to function in a fastpaced environment