TPO Visual Factory

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We are searching for a talent for a Technical Product Owner - Make Visual Factory who will own the technology product product vision and product roadmap. This role involves managing individual contributors and vendors developing tactical and operational plans to support organizational objectives and business goals. The Technical Product Owner will develop roadmaps aligning with strategic technology programs and business needs.

You will be responsible for

• Responsible for vision roadmap and priorities of enhancements to a product (applications) platforms or solutions in partnership with Business Process Owner.

• Accountable for current product line quality-performance and communication of production issues to BPOs and business stakeholders

• Responsible for Cost-to-Deliver Product E2E Lifecycle and Total Cost of Ownership

• Results delivery through a direct and indirect cross-functional team of 4-6 internal and contract staff; management of vendors; and management of costs

• Helps carve out the product vision

  • Collaborates with cross-functional team to define product requirements

  • Prioritizes product demand & backlog understands economic models to manage prioritization and applies systems thinking

  • Generates key user insights

  • Develops hypothesis on solutions

  • Drives product line vision and ensures development and maintenance of a multi-generation product strategy

  • Supports definition of success criteria for products

  • Creates and owns product roadmap including collaboration with local site-based product owners to rationalize and standardize the product line

  • Collaborates with TS Vendors Site IT Architecture teams in defining future product deployment strategies aligned with future state Historian architecture and strategy

• Drives the team and ensures that all are working towards a common goal ultimately delivering value

  • Sprint Planning: Elaborates on stories

  • Sprint Review: Approves new stories and adds regular feedback includes business/stakeholders in product reviews to gain direct feedback

  • Understands and defines (or helps define) scope for MVP

  • Defines acceptance criteria

  • Actively participates on Scrum rites

  • Participates in retrospectives

  • Monitors sprint metrics release metrics and usability test results

  • Prioritizes functionality for release

• Manages project (oversight) scope and issue resolution.

  • Partner with project manager scrum master business process owner to drive alignment on goals and objectives.

  • Working closely with all stakeholders including our TS partners to ensure that deployed solutions are efficient effective and support the business process goals and objectives across the enterprise.

  • Ensures completion of process and system documentation.

  • Ensures communication of progress and status.

• Continuously thinks of the product

  • Ensures adoption: Ensures that the next iteration is what the users need

  • Monitors usage: Keeps a close eye on usage and determines next steps

  • Conducts surveys and feedback sessions to remain close to users

  • Monitors performance: Works with partners to ensure availability and performance requirements are understood and drives the team to identify issues and solutions.

  • Connect with industry organizations and vendors: To stay current on developments and challenges of potential solutions and architectures.

• Product budgets from financing to implementation.

• Develops insights for site leadership. Contributes to technology projects programs and processes. Creates reports visualizations or other documents. Presents findings and provides updates on status to team and management.

Required qualifications

• Bachelors degree

• A minimum of 5 years experience in a similar position

• Experience in leading and managing vendors

• Experience in a (pharmaceutical) manufacturing environment

• Substantial skills in relevant technologies (Digital and Innovation)

• Adept in ISA-95 model

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with strong interpersonal skills and a team-oriented approach.

• Adept in financial management

• Knowledge of software development and testing methodologies (SDLC)

• Experience working in projects utilizing Agile methodology

• Experience managing product backlog preferably using JIRA

• Experience with Project Management Software Testing Implementation and Change Management

• Experience working within a regulated (GxP) environment

• Knowledge in Supply Chain processes including processes associated with manufacturing for Pharmaceutical

• Track record of program delivery of Supply Chain projects technical management and governance of complex regional and global initiatives across multiple sites and/or regions.

• Experience managing global multi-location teams

• Experience in managing vendor partners in development delivery and support of complex technical systems across a multi-site network

• Ability to influence vendors and stakeholders through good communication and negotiation at multiple levels within the organization

• Supervisory/People Management experience

• Ability to lead and negotiate financial and budget discussions as it pertains to the Historian application platform delivery and strategy

• Understanding of OT systems and OT integrations

• Knowledge and experience with Visual Factory systems (Shift Connector or similar products) include business processes deployment architecture and interfaces.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in data platforms and solutions (Azure Data Lake GraphDB)

• Experience in integrations technologies (MQTT Brokers Kafka or similar)

• Experience in AI/ML Model Mgmt Data Science Prompt Engineering MLOps is a big plus

• Experience with manufacturing-related systems (e.g. MES PAS-X ERP LIMS) and ecosystem integration.

• Familiarity with Enterprise Quality-related systems

• Experience handling Cybersecurity by design

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