Agile Product Management Senior Advisor- Hybrid

The Agile Product Management Senior Advisor uses specialized depth and experience to oversee the writing and modifying of complex technical functional requirements for a complex product - these are derived from the business requirements and form the foundation of what the engineers will code/implement in order to achieve business asks.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Agile Product Owner Senior Advisor is responsible for the initiatives supporting the Specialty Pharmacy Area.

This position utilizes technical and operational aptitude and experience to provide business support to Express Scripts Operations to ensure satisfaction with technology products, systems and services in alignment with ESI objectives.

Assists with ensuring requirements are clear and actionable and that the execution of approved initiatives drives value in the department.

Manages deadlines and ensures overall success of assigned portfolio initiatives from beginning to end.
Responsibilities/ Expectations:
• Proactive and takes an active role in understanding the business case, why a change is being requested and learning the desired future state.
• Focused on continuous learning, adopting probe and learn approach for self-learning
• Leverages knowledge of the product's value stream and system interactions to identify when new features or product changes are needed to achieve business value.
• Has a sound understanding of breaking down a problem/ ask to requirements.

Understands the aspects of well-rounded requirements (functional/ non-functional)
• Communicates stakeholder goals and expected outcomes to the engineering/ Solution Architect/ Principal engineering team and writes definition-of-ready user stories, incorporating architectural changes recommended by engineering.
• Facilitates product backlog grooming sessions, ensuring the highest impact work is delivered soonest.

Responsible for maintaining product technical roadmap and advocating prioritization at the right time for non-functional work.
• Adept at building relationship with business, technology partners to establish a circle of trust with stakeholders.
• Has overall ownership of a defined capability or technical product area, including product value, cost of ownership, health and non-functional requirements (reliability, scalability, usability, security, performance, etc.).
• Cultivates trusted relationships with Business/BAT and Technology partners to foster teamwork and a shared understanding of the product vision, goals and priorities.
• Leads sprint planning , story refinement , feature elaboration sessions with business and technology stakeholders.
• Actively participates in planning sessions that form cohesive, iterative plans and ensure the team's work creates the iterative value (e.g.

supports the completion of MVPs/Epics in concert with other teams).
• Proactively resolve upstream dependencies and resolve conflict effectively across teams.
• Participates in team standups, and retrospectiv...