Job Description
The Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) value team in R&D IT brings together product management engineering and data science expertise to enable data and technology products and services that accelerate our scientists ability to discover and develop innovative medicines that change the course of human health. Our IT team operates as a business partner proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver the services and solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation and advance the drug discovery and development pipeline.
We are seeking an energetic and collaborative person to join the R&D IT Research and Development Sciences (RaDS) Product organization. As a Product Analyst in the Composition of Matter Develop & Make Product you will be part of a team tasked with delivering digital capabilities that help scientists develop laboratory-scale processes and controls for various modalities of composition of matter (small molecules peptides conjugates biologics etc). This includes creating efficient foundational platforms needed to execute both in silico and physical lab experimentation modeling and analytics with high quality frictionless dataflows to enable laboratory development and scale up.
The Product Analyst works on cross-functional teams that bring together science technologies capabilities and talent to create products that deliver high impact business value insight and a fantastic user experience to scientists throughout the life cycle of the solution.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Maintain assigned applications as technical owner throughout their lifecycles
Maintain a high level of relevant scientific & technology domain knowledge
Know the associated user base and their challenges as well as they do
Understand external landscape and make comparisons to make product decisions
Collaborate with Product Manager to establish goals and workplans
Execute assigned work in backlog & roadmap ranging from product discovery through product delivery and testing
Requirements:
Minimum of 2 years experience in technology product development working with scientists OR professional scientific experience related to chemistry or biochemistry is considered to be a must
Bachelors degree (or higher) or equivalent in a scientific discipline such as engineering biology or chemistry or a technical discipline such as computer science is preferred but not needed
Strong communication and problem-solving skills ability to work in matrixed environments eagerness to learn and drive for data-driven decision making
Experience with Jira Jira Align OKR tools (e.g. Workboard) Confluence and Agile methodologies (scrum Kanban etc.) is preferred
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
Pension and health insurance contributions
Internal reward system plus referral program
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 Foodora and other discount programs
Up-to-date laptop and iPhone company car
Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers
Competitive salary incentive pay and many more
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RegularRelocation:
No relocationVISA Sponsorship:
YesTravel Requirements:
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