Agile Product Owner Advisor - Express Scripts - Remote (Finance)
The Agile Product Owner Advisor represents the "voice of the customer" at the team level, maintaining and prioritizing the Product Backlog, to ensure that the team is working on stories that maximize business value and deliver necessary fixes and functionality to all customers. They must have strong business skills and experience, with either some past experience working with technology teams, or the ability and interest to learn how to work with technology teams. The Agile Product Owner will be 100% allocated to this role. The incumbent provides expert content/professional leadership on complex assignments/projects. Exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives. Uses deep professional knowledge and acumen to advise functional leaders. Focuses on providing thought leadership but works on broader projects, which require understanding of wider business. Recognized internally as a subject matter expert.
Job Description:
The Pharmacy Benefit Services (PBS), Operations Business Product Owner (BPO) serves as the key interface and liaison between the business sponsor, or client and technology counterparts to advance high ROI/efficiency, division-wide and enterprise-wide initiatives. This individual would have responsibility for the accuracy and comprehensiveness of business requirements of new and modified business applications and/or products.
The Business Product Owner serves as the interface to the Technical Product Owners (TPO) for business applications, product or client requests to contribute to business requirements for new and existing systems from ideation through production and project oversight.
They will participate heavily in:
o the extraction of requirements from business sources
o discussions with technical resources on business intent and requirements
o skills to discuss, if not influence, technical design of associated applications
o the ability to guide technical support
PRIMARY FUNCTION
• Participate in defining business requirements with business sponsors, TPO and System Engineering teams for new and modified business applications, product, or client requests
• Apply new technical tools and techniques to support business within the digital and communication BPO space.
• Apply Express Scripts project tools and methodologies to advance business applications, products, or client requests.
• Provide input and insight into technical design of new and existing business applications.
• Owns the creation of epics to support analytic needs
• Participates in essential meetings, ceremonies, and release planning conversations to ensure training or documentation resources support a successful adoption
• Communicate and report on progress regularly with stakeholders
• Prioritize and manage workload and meet project deadlines.
• Business, technical and financial acumen applied to projects and portfolio
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
• High school diploma or GED required
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 5 years experience with program management or product owner preferred
• Knowledge of agile methodology preferred
• Proficiency in Jira preferred
• Business, technical and financial acumen preferred
• Ability to operate within a fast paced work environment a plus
• Excellent communication (oral and written), facilitation, presentation, and organization skills required
• Excellent organization skills preferred
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously required
• Demonstrated problem solving and organization capabilities preferred
• Proven ability to manage multiple project simultaneously and work well within an ambiguous environment preferred
If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.
