Product Owner

Tecnoambiente Consultoria e Serviços Ltda; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 65,000

Job description

Exeter, Devon (with hybrid working)

About Us
FDB (First Databank) is the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide and four decades of experience, FDB enables our developer partners to deliver actionable solutions that help improve patient safety, quality, and healthcare outcomes. Our values drive our work, and we have clear expectations, work better together, are constantly curious and put health at heart.

We are looking for a Product Owner to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis, with clinical experience in general practice, e.g. as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician and a proven interest in developing digital tools for the NHS.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 working days holiday per annum plus statutory holidays
• Flexible option for employees to purchase up to five additional days holiday
• Annual company bonus scheme
• Health and Wellbeing allowance
• Health Shield flexible health cash-back scheme
• Electric Vehicle scheme
• Enhanced pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Charity days
• Full flexible working
• Enhanced maternity/paternity schemes
• and many more!

This is an exciting opportunity where you'll have the chance to develop your expertise whilst working on products that help healthcare professionals improve patient care.

The Role

The Product Owner takes accountability for their respective solution(s), representing customer requirements and overseeing the delivery of robust relevant solutions that deliver demonstrable value to customers in a timely and cost-effective manner.

• Define and manage delivery of the product roadmap, delivering solution enhancements with clearly demonstrable value to customers, to appropriate quality, time and cost variables.
• Lead design, development and implementation of software products that not only match clients requirements but are also delivered within time and budget constraints (project, capex and operational), whilst working with colleagues across the organisation to optimise the balance between short-term profitability and long-term sustainability.
• Manage product feature requests and bug fix backlogs to ensure enhancements and new solutions are delivered to customers expectations in a timely and cost-effective manner, driving customer satisfaction and retention.
• Create prototypes, authoring of detailed specifications, successful communication of conceptual ideas, and design rationale to provide unambiguous requirements to all supply functions (internal and external), ensuring product design delivers a cohesive user experience.
• Identify, test and deliver existing or new growth opportunities that leverage the products capabilities and position in market.
• Be constantly curious to establish, document and disseminate a deep understanding of the customer/user experience to underpin and evidence the generation of value through product deliverables to customer, user and FDB.
• Work closely with peers to ensure the products vision, strategies and roadmaps are aligned and are supportable for the future.
• Lead and facilitate major technical decisions for the development team; and evaluating revenue and sales projections against development and maintenance costs, ensuring both current solutions and future developments are sustainably profitable.
• Work collaboratively with customer facing teams to ensure that enhancements are deployed by customers and the expected value is materialised.

About You
To join us as a Product Owner, you will need:

• Clinical experience in general practice, e.g. as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician
• Excellent analytical and research skills
• A curious mindset and desire to engage with market stakeholders to understand problems
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills when dealing with key stakeholders, both internally and externally

It would be beneficial to have experience of working as a product owner / architect, or experience of working in a software development organisation.

Ideally, you will also have Project Management experience and/or qualifications with practical knowledge of using Agile or Scrum methodologies and presenting ideas to senior stakeholders.

Other organisations may call this role Product Owner, Product Architect, Product Development Manager, NPD Manager, or Technical Product Manager.

So, if you are seeking your next step as a Product Owner, please apply via the button shown.

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