Senior Product Owner (Hybrid) - Durham, NC

**Job Description Summary**As a Product Owner, you will be responsible for defining and prioritizing the product backlog, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver a high quality solution. You will act as the bridge between stakeholders and the development team, ensuring the product vision aligns with business objectives. Key Duties will include facilitating requirements, refining user stories, and driving iterative product improvements in an Agile environment. This role requires excellent communication, organizational skills, and the ability to balance technical and business priorities.**Job Description**We are **the makers of possible**BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health is our Purpose, and its no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of usfrom design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per yearto look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which youll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a **maker of possible** with us.We are searching for a Product Owner to join our MMS Pharmacy Automation team. The Product Owner serves as a subject matter expert in their field with depth and breadth of experience, knowledge and skills.The three primary responsibilities of the product owner will be managing and prioritizing the product backlog in partnership with their Software Delivery Leader, translating product managers' strategies to development requirements, stories, tasks, and supporting the holistic success of instruments in their portfolio. To accomplish this, the PO will work with a cross-functional team to define and document requirements and acceptance criteria on a daily basis; work with beta customers to test and validate new releases; liaison with the Service team to ensure that escalations and defects are triaged, prioritized, and remediated; collaborate with Product Managers and Software Delivery Leaders to manage release coordination activities and partner for value delivery.**Key Responsibilities**+ Create, order, and manage the backlog of software features, user stories, and product defects to ensure that the work defined for the team is meaningful to the customer, yet realistic and attainable for the development teams. Balance features innovation, new product development, and sustaining activity via definition and backlog prioritization in collaboration with cross-functional team.Considers risk factors that could affect scope, schedule, and/or resources and inform adequate contingency plans for potential issues.+ Manage software requirement engineering process, in partnership with Systems Engineering, throughout the development life cycle, eliciting, documenting, analyzing, and harmonizing functional and non-functional requirements.+ Support sprint planning and reviews, development estimation, and incremental feature delivery in tight collaboration with Customers, Product Managers, Engineering, and Quality.+ Play an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals governance for change management and lead adjustments to plan+ Facilitate scoping of software requirements to align between product roadmaps and deliverables.+ Support SW Quality in test planning by identifying testability requirements and supporting review of test cases and defects, as needed.+ Lead verification and validation/beta launch activities for their cross-functional project team including: protocol writing, execution, and reporting. Support beta launch activities including site selection criteria, validation testing, definition for success, and outcome documentation.+ Supports hand-over of design to manufacturing and service.+ May include some third line support to diagnose and resolve production issues, assist teams in removing obstacles, and ensuring overall success of product deliverables.+ Execute work within company processes and procedures includingengineering tools (requirement management, escalation management, etc), Design Controls, Product Lifecycle Management, Configuration Management, Phase Reviews.+ Act as a key contributor in a complex environment, and work independently with minimal guidance.+ Contribute to Intellectual Property generation that protects the portfolio and establishes an offensive market position.+ Share expertise with others.+ Follow our competitors and the industry; keep abreast with Agile/Scrum standard processes and new trends+ May include travel to customer locations**When working as a** **Delivery Lead**+ Represent their function in a cross-functional team to define program resource needs and project plans necessary to execute the required and prioritized work within the platform/portfolio.+ Contribute to an integrated R&D product development project plan to deliver and execute efficiently and with sound quality+ Leads system design reviews for assigned portfolio, gathers inputs from other functions**Skills and Experience**+ Bachelors Degree required, preferred in Science+ In-depth?knowledge of Agile process and principles; experience working in Lean/Agile software development teams; experience operating within design control.+ Experience in or ability to leverage Product Management and Development tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Aha!, Jira or equivalent+ Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills+ Excellent organizational and time management skills+ Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills+ Creative thinker with a vision+ Attention to detail+ Domain experience in Pharmacy or Health care**Primary Work Location and Additional Considerations:**+ USA NC - Durham - Roche Drive+ We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor Visas' at this time.+ Relocation Assistance: May be available for this position subject to Company Policy. All candidates are welcome to apply and will be evaluated equally.+ We encourage Candidates near our BD Location of: NC - Durham to apply for this Hybrid role.+ This is a Hybrid role that requires you to be at your assigned worksite 3 days out of the week and up to 2 days from home. Local policies may apply. BD may change your work arrangement based on business needs.+ This position may require up to 20% domestic/international travel.+ Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license and a past clean driving record for a minimum of 3 years; as well as meet BD's auto safety standardsFor certain roles at BD, employment is contingent upon the Companys receipt of sufficient proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In some locations, testing for COVID-19 may be available and/or required. Consistent with BDs Workplace Accommodations Policy, requests for accommodation will be considered pursuant to applicable law.**Why Join Us?**A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. Its also a place where we help each other be great, we do whats right, we hold each other accountable, and learn and improve every day.To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, youll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow, and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.To learn more about BD visit? https://bd.com/careersBecton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.**Primary Work Location**USA NC - Durham - Roche Drive**Additional Locations****Work Shift**Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status.