Senior Product Owner

Vizient • Irving, TX

3d

About The Position

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves . We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. Summary: In this role, you will apply analytical thinking and problem-solving skills to develop user stories and the product backlog for one primary product. You will work with Product Management and Business Operations to develop user stories and a product backlog to support business needs. You will participate in planning and design sessions and provide clarification on product requirements. You will manage the request process by collaborating with the Product Owner/Product Manager to define and justify new product developments and projects.

Requirements

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 5 or more years of relevant work experience required.
• Experience in the supply chain industry involving Business-to-Business (B2B) data integrations, ERP systems, knowledge of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), and related exchange protocols required.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment required.
• Requires strong leadership skills with the ability to manage through influence and persuasiveness.
• Willingness to travel.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Action OI or Vizient's ODB preferred.
• Experience with GL, Payroll, and staffing desired.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize and coordinate product backlogs for assigned products.
• Create product and enhancement release plans and provide final sign off on product releases.
• Plan and conduct stakeholder and user interviews to gather requirements and understand needs.
• Create and communicate product value proposition and deliver product demonstrations to stakeholders externally and internally.
• Ensure product functionality and features meet user and business needs in a cost-effective manner.
• Interpret data to identify potential business opportunities and make recommendations.
• Frequently engage with users, business operations, product delivery, and sales channels to maintain a thoughtful backlog prioritization that provides maximum value to product viability and aligned with product strategy.
• Translate business needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, facilitate stakeholder requirements sessions, document current and future-state workflows and data flows, and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) validation to ensure solutions align with business goals.
• Perform product demos, explain complex and technical concepts to different audiences in an approachable way.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level