Product Owner - Platform Engineering

at  Elanco

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

IT in Elanco is an evolving and growing space, with key focuses on improving the health of our estate and reducing friction for both IT and business. This role hones in on improving the health of our large application estate by creating tools to empower other product people to maintain their applications and on the rules of the estate at large to ensure best practices.
You will join a team of talented product owners and engineers to ensure existing applications are secure, reliable, and efficient. You will also be the face of our internal customers, partnering with them to solve the biggest challenges across our enterprise using everything from our discovery capabilities to inner-sourced application development.
A successful PO at Elanco is a highly motivated individual who is passionate about collaborative problem-solving and who proactively identifies opportunities and drives tangible outcomes. A strong combination of technical awareness and experience with Agile (specifically Scrum or Kanban) will be essential to the success of this role.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:

Over the past 5 years, Elanco IT has been on an incredibly exciting journey. Separating from our parent company and standing up on our own gave us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a modern technology stack free of the burden of large-scale technical debt. We are now looking to take this one step further by leveraging newly established engineering capabilities to help Elanco deliver on customer needs faster than ever before. This is a great opportunity to drive a newly created engineering team, embed a strong Agile culture and practices, and tackle some of the largest challenges in Animal Health.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS & KEY EXPERIENCES:

• 3-5+ years’ experience as a Product Owner/Manager or a similar role.
• Real-world experience working in an agile delivery team.
• Experience working on IT development programmes or an engineering/cloud background is advantageous.
• Experience eliciting and breaking down needs into actionable user stories, and ability to own, prioritise, and manage a product backlog.
• Comfortable and effective at conveying complex technical challenges into easy-to-consume explanations for a non-technical audience.
• Certified product owner (CSPO) or similar certification preferred.
• Experience working in a regulated, multi-agency and international environment is advantageous.
• Team player capable of building high-performing, collaborative and ownership-driven teams in a highly dynamic environment
  Other Information: 2 days a week in our Hook office (RG27 9XA) is required.
  Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected statu

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