Healthcare Product Owner

at  Perficient Inc

Overview:
At Perficient you’ll deliver mission-critical technology and business solutions to Fortune 500 companies and some of the most recognized brands on the planet. And you’ll do it with cutting-edge technologies, thanks to our close partnerships with the world’s biggest vendors. Our network of offices across North America, as well as locations in India and China, will give you the opportunity to spread your wings, too.
We’re proud to be publicly recognized as a “Top Workplace” year after year. This is due, in no small part, to our entrepreneurial attitude and collaborative spirit that sets us apart and keeps our colleagues impassioned, driven, and fulfilled.
Perficient is on a mission to help the Healthcare industry take advantage of modern data and analytics architectures, tools, and patterns to improve the quality and affordability of care. This is an excellent opportunity for the right individual to assist Perficient and its customers to grow the capabilities necessary to improve care through better use of data and information, and in the process take their career to the next level.
Perficient currently has a career opportunity for a Product Owner in our National Healthcare Business Unit.

Responsibilities:

• Understand complexities of a large program and provide guidance for the development teams.
• Interact with product managers, project managers and other organizational units such as QA, operations, and external IT partners.
• Negotiate scope, schedule, and funding with external IT and business partners.
• Establish common goals across multiple teams, and define useful metrics and reporting to track team performance.
• Manage milestones across multiple teams.
• Lead teams of engineers through the completion of all phases of the project.

Qualifications:

• 3-5+ years of healthcare industry experience in Product Owner or related role, payer or provider side or both, in consulting or directly, with strong relationship management, account management, and sales support experience.
• 3-5+ years of Product Owner experience including in Healthcare industry - and experience with full product lifecycle
• Highly proficient in collaborating with product and project stakeholders, end-users, business partners, and technical team members to deliver high quality projects.
• Hands on experience with gathering, managing and prioritizing product backlog. Well-versed in industry best-practices and current technologies.
• Must have experience in agile environment and Jira
• Experience with Global Delivery Model is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with proposal creation and leading proposal presentations.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Wide variety of IT and business consulting engagement experience.
• Flexibility to travel.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• CSPO Certification
• Scrum/Agile Methodology
• Payer experience preferred
  Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.

• Understand complexities of a large program and provide guidance for the development teams.
• Interact with product managers, project managers and other organizational units such as QA, operations, and external IT partners.
• Negotiate scope, schedule, and funding with external IT and business partners.
• Establish common goals across multiple teams, and define useful metrics and reporting to track team performance.
• Manage milestones across multiple teams.
• Lead teams of engineers through the completion of all phases of the project