Lead Product Specialist

Boeing • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

The Boeing Company is looking for a Lead Product Specialist to join the team in Seattle, WA; Berkeley, MO; Hazelwood, MO: Everett, WA; or Renton, WA. Lead Product Specialist needs to collaborate with business and product stakeholders to define and document the ‘business need’ into clear and precise requirements with testable acceptance criteria. The role then partners with the IT Delivery organization to deliver a solution that meets the business needs.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience on business requirements and analysis on teams and projects that involve cross-functional and/or cross-business domains with management interface experience
• Experience capturing product requirements with a clear focus on real business needs and delivering measurable value
• Experience in creating diagrams & Workflows
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework
• Experience in Supply Chain domain – either in IT or within a business function
• 5+ years’ experience leading projects for supply chain logistics
• Experience managing projects and utilizing standard project management tools

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree: Computer Science, Engineering, Business Management, or related
• Demonstrated systems thinking experience across broad process and architectural landscapes
• Demonstrated organization skills to effectively work in cross-functional, multi-level environment with shifting priorities and requirements
• Excellent organizational and planning experience

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to define and document detailed business requirements
• Quickly learns each business unit’s warehouse ops, transportation and logistics business flows, processes and products
• Facilitate regular requirement gathering and design sessions with the business product owners/users and communicates expectations to the IT development team
• Elicit requirements using a variety of techniques such as interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, site visits, use cases, scenarios and business process flows
• Negotiate solutions that satisfy requirements and deliver business value while ensuring consistency and security standards
• Identify process improvement opportunities by reviewing existing processes and data.
• Use a variety of techniques to document and map complex business processes to ensure requirements are clear to help deploy the right solution with first time quality (ie. epic/capability/feature/user story, UML models)
• Ensure requirements are testable and traceable
• Partner with the IT delivery team throughout the project to ensure expectations are met
• Serve as liaison between the business product team and the IT delivery team to resolve any issues
• Develop and execute test cases to validate the requirements
• Strong communicator and writer that works to develop strong relationships with business customers, IT, Infrastructure, vendors and partners
• Monitor project progress by tracking activity; resolving problems; publishing progress reports; recommending actions and escalations as needed

Benefits

• Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees