10 Product Specialists (Agile Business Analysts)

Product SpecialistThis position may be offered to a candidate authorized to work in the US for his/her/their stated employer, without any restrictions which would prevent the candidate from working on the proposed assignment for the duration of the assignment period.The Managers can set up times for as early as the following day, so please let me know the earliest your folks can interview. I will be sending off the MS Teams details for you once confirmed.Multi-year project. Please include details regarding Agile exp.

Will be looking for healthcare/ Pharma experience.They want to make sure they get someone who will be successful in the environment with releases running parallel, larger/ concurrent projects and challenging timelines. Please include some examples of related size, scope, complexity, etc so I can get an idea of experience.Focusing more on the Sr business analyst type profile. They'll be doing tons of documentation, research (sorting through thousands of documents), elicitation, lots of hands-on/ on the ground work, creating user stories themselves.

So someone too high level, project managing, fully on the business side (some business is fine), etc is not going to work out.UPDATED JD:The Product Specialist (PS) is a member of the Agile Product Team responsible for defining user stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog. This role is instrumental in partnering with the Product Owner (PO) to drive day to day development for RetailPharmacy initiatives that generate multi-million dollar business value to the organization and touch millions of consumers. Responsible for working with the PO to streamline the execution of team priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features/ components for the team.

This PS role will support the RxConnect Agile product team.PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:Team Backlog Maintenance/Prioritization with PO Works with the lead PO to maintain the product backlog and facilitate decision-making on stories, bug fixes, and technical debt as they move through stages in team Rally board Collaborates with Agile teams to continuously review business needs, refine priorities, outline deliverables, and identify and address dependencies, opportunities, and risks Works with Product Managers and stakeholders to decompose features into prioritized user stories that deliver value and tangible business results Provides subject matter expertise – explaining product vision and user stories to the team to ensure requirements are understood and customer value is delivered Collaborates with the Business Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Initiative Owner and Solution Architect to clarify requirementsSprint Planning/Sprint Execution with PO Works with team to ensure user stories meet ‘Definition of Ready’ before development starts and meets the Definition of Done before accepting them as complete Responsible for assuring a level of quality has been achieved by validating that the Story meets acceptance criteria and has met acceptance tests; approves stories as complete Responsible to update product management on Story status to align on delivery expectations Participates in daily sprint ceremonies to facilitate quality and speed of delivery; holds team accountable for what they committed to deliver Works with team to establish regular cadence and manage capacityProgram Increment Planning in Partnership with PO Maintains relationships within and outside the local team and prepares user stories for inclusion in Program Increment (PI) Planning Partner with Product Management, who is responsible for the Program Backlog, to assist in preparing for the Program Increment (PI) Planning meeting Collaborates with the team to produce the PI system demo and presents it to program stakeholders.EDUCATION: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experiencePRIOR WORK EXPERIENCE: 3+ yearsREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: In order of importance, list specific skills or talents that a qualified incumbent should possess (i.e., management of large staff, computer applications, subject knowledge, etc.) 3+ years required experience as Product Owner, Business Analyst, Consulting, IT, or related field.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Familiarity with agile processes, such as scrum, Kanban, and/or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio Experienced in user story writing