Senior Technical Product Specialist

Job Description

The Position

Welcome to an exciting role at our company a global front-runner in healthcare with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines vaccines and animal health products. Our mission is to save and improve lives and we have a rich 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity forward momentum and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Were on the lookout for a dynamic professional to join our Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) team. This role includes orchestration and cross-functional program responsibilities spanning the Treasury product and finance value team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a diverse global organization where your contributions directly influence our financial performance.

What will you do

• As an orchestrator on the GLM team you will enhance our Treasury applications by introducing new interfaces and capabilities while ensuring production issues are resolved accurately and on time
• In your role as the crossfunctional program manager for the Finance Value Team you will partner closely with the AVP to manage crossteam dependencies and risks
• You will deepen your expertise in Treasury GLM business processes to maximize the impact of your contributions
• You will support the product manager and technical lead with release management and assist in the daytoday oversight of the backlog and production issues
• You will lead key Agile ceremoniesincluding release planning retrospectives and daily standupsto maintain team alignment and drive consistent delivery.
• You will gain broad exposure to a wide range of technical and business stakeholders
• You will help define key priorities and work closely with the product manager in weekly refinement sessions to ensure the team consistently focuses on the highestvalue initiatives

Qualifications skills & experience required

• University degree preferably in Computer Science or Business Administration.
• 3 years managing IT programs and products as a product/program manager or orchestrator.
• Overall 5 years of overall IT experience.
• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and accountability ensuring tasks are driven to completion through proactive and resourceful approaches.
• Experience in modern practices including JIRA GitHub CI/CD pipelines DevSecOPS Agile principles.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with all key stakeholders through daily activities such as requirement gathering
• Strong leadership skills to drive key priorities commitments and achieve results through interpersonal relationships.
• Strong leadership skills to drive key priorities commitments and achieve results through interpersonal relationship.
• Being capable to effect change without possessing direct authority while exhibiting resilience in challenging situations.
• Experience in modern practices including JIRA GitHub CI/CD pipelines DevSecOPS Agile principles.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a can do mindset

Nice to have

• General understanding of general financial processes and concepts or familiarity with financial applications.
• Exposure to COTS and SaaS solutions (SAP) programming languages (Java Python Bash ) operating system technologies (Linux Unix Shell) and web-based technology stacks (HTTP/TLS REST APIs).

What you will gain

• Learn modern technologies and be part of a dynamic and diverse global organization
• Have a direct line of sight on the impact of IT capabilities on the companys financial performance
• Work directly with senior leadership on managing cross-functional dependencies and risk

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern (e.g. even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system plus referral programme
• 5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner
• Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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