Senior Product Owner, Engineering

Description

About the role

As Senior Product Owner – Engineering, EHS & Sustainability , you will lead a cross-functional product team delivering digital products that enable our Engineering, Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) and Sustainability teams to work safely, efficiently and compliantly.

You will turn complex business needs into a clear product vision, roadmap and prioritised backlog. You'll focus the team on delivering the greatest value for our people, patients and the planet, while balancing risk, cost and strategic priorities.

Working with business stakeholders, Product Managers, Solution Architects, Engineers and Product Analysts, you'll help ensure our products are intuitive, secure, compliant and supportable. You'll also play an important role in identifying and delivering responsible AI opportunities that improve user experience, quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Shape the product vision and roadmap , partnering with Engineering, EHS and Sustainability stakeholders to understand business needs, define outcomes and establish how value will be measured.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog , translating requirements into clear epics, features and user stories based on business value, risk, cost, dependencies and capacity.
• Lead product delivery across the full lifecycle, working with analysts, engineers, architects and testers to deliver secure, compliant and user-focused solutions.
• Drive successful adoption and continuous improvement , ensuring operational readiness and using product performance measures, user feedback and data to inform future priorities.
• Lead AI-enabled product opportunities , converting business needs into valuable AI use cases and defining appropriate success measures and evaluation criteria.
• Ensure effective governance and responsible delivery , including security, data protection, validation, human oversight, risk management and regulated change controls.
• Why You?
• Basic qualifications and experience
• We are looking for someone with:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.
• Experience in product ownership, digital product delivery, business systems or process-led technology roles, including managing and prioritising a product backlog.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into clear, value-led technology solutions and working directly with business stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through the product lifecycle, including refinement, design, testing, release, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Experience working in agile delivery environments and balancing business value, risk, cost and technical complexity when setting priorities.
• Experience in at least one of the following areas: Engineering, including plant maintenance, calibration, validation, content management or capital projects; EHS, including incident management, occupational health, industrial hygiene or chemical compliance; or Sustainability, including energy efficiency, clean energy or waste management.
• Experience delivering AI, Generative AI, advanced analytics or intelligent automation capabilities, including defining success measures and evaluation criteria.
• Experience delivering technology solutions within a regulated or highly controlled environment, with an understanding of governance, validation, security and change control.
• Preferred qualifications and experience
• The following would be an advantage:
• Understanding of product performance measures, including adoption, cycle time, stability, user experience and support effort.
• Knowledge of Generative AI and large language models, with an understanding of responsible AI principles including privacy, security, transparency, human oversight and risk management.
• What you'll bring
• You will be an effective communicator who can make complex technology decisions understandable to a wide range of stakeholders. You'll be comfortable challenging assumptions, influencing priorities and making evidence-based decisions.
• You'll combine a strong product mindset with an understanding of technology, risk and governance. You'll also be able to coach and support Product Analysts and other team members, helping create clear requirements and high-quality solutions.
• Above all, you'll be curious about how digital technology and AI can solve real business problems and motivated by delivering products that create measurable value.
• Closing date for applications: 20th November 2026
• hybrid AGTech

Requirements

• Agile Methodology, Backlogs, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Design Thinking, DevOps, Process Diagrams, Product Strategies, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Services Management, Software Development, User Experience (UX), User Research, User Story
• Why the company?
• Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
• The company is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
• People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
• We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
• Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at the company's site where you can also request a call.
• Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive
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• The company does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact the company's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to the company. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and the company. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of the company. The company shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
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