Technical Product Owner

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting a **Technical Product Owner **to support technology functions across CAR-T manufacturing sites located in Belgium. The Supply Chain Advanced Therapies MAKE Technology team within the JJT Global Supply Chain organization has responsibility for delivery of an IT product portfolio that supports a variety of key manufacturing platforms and provides outstanding customer experience across multiple channels within J&J Innovative Medicine.

About our program: CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy) is an innovative approach to target destruction of cancer cells, which works by harnessing the power of a patient’s own immune system. The therapy is created from the patients’ own T cells and are engineered to eliminate cancer cells expressing a specific antigen. To support the CAR-T program in EMEA, Johnson & Johnson in collaboration with our partner Legend Biotech, are building two CAR-T manufacturing centers in the Ghent area (Belgium) and a QC laboratory/Cold Storage facility located at an existing site in Beerse, Belgium.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Shape the squad vision / roadmap and steer the squad in delivering products / platforms features / work oriented around business impact.
- Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing requirements and features, optimizing cost and improving delivery efficiency.
- Act as the “voice of the customer” within the squad to ensure the team “builds the right thing”.
- Plan resourcing for the squad (i.e., new role, change in role), AS order entry requests (internal technical services staffing requests), interview, select and onboard members to join the squad.
- Accountable for shaping and hitting squad Objectives & Key Results
- Work closely with the product and platform team to establish the products’ business value and support messaging, comms, and customer outreach as required.
- Ensure the products / features / work meets relevant security, privacy & compliance standards.
- Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle.
- Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of squad objectives.
- Facilitate release planning, sprint planning and demos with partners.
- Collaborate with other Squads within the Product / Platform enabling synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks.
- Drive reporting and analytics to provide visibility on squad performance and monitoring of sprint metrics and user results.
- Work with Lead Engineer to balance technical debt with feature delivery.
- Actively participate in all squad ceremonies; leads and optimizes the flow of value using various tools and reporting cadence.
- Closely work together with Product / Platform lead to understand product strategy and squad projection needs.

**Qualifications**:
**Qualifications**:
**Education**:
A minimum of a bachelor’s degree, preferably in computer science, industrial engineering, business organization or equivalent.

**Experience and Skills**:
**Required**:

- At least 7 years of meaningful work experience in (Supply Chain/Manufacturing).
- Demonstrated ability in the life sciences or the healthcare industry.
- Specific experience with MES Systems, especially the Körber PAS-X platform, or solution knowledge including its usage in the broader Pharma/Life Science industry.
- Experience with Data Historian technologies and reporting such as OSI PI (Aveva PI) or GE Proficy.
- Familiarity with IoT devices for equipment connectivity and data capture within a production environment.
- Experience leading product backlog preferably using JIRA.
- Proven track record collaborating with business partners to translate needs into relevant technology platforms and solutions.
- Ability to think strategically and tactically to resolve problems, prioritize and balance multiple tasks.
- Ability to stay up to date on technology trends to identify and evaluate new technologies that can be applied to pharma manufacturing.
- Understanding of the software lifecycle and development process (SDLC), waterfall, agile and other SDLC methodologies.
- Knowledge of software testing and quality assurance (QA) and compliance requirements such as FDA, GxP, and 21 CFR Part 11/Annex 11.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical partners and to lead and empower teams, set the vision, drive technology strategy and roadmap, and build strong relationships.
- Ability to work with multi-functional teams to deliver software projects on time and within budget.

**Preferred Technology/System Knowledge**:

- Cloud computing platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Electronic Document Management (EDMS) Systems such as Veeva Vault, Documentum, etc.
- QMS (Quality Management System) and Validation systems/platforms such as TrackWise, Kneat, or SalesForce.
- Asset Management tools such ServiceNow, SolarWinds, etc.
- Integration middleware/iPaaS technologies such as MuleSoft or IBM API Connect.
- DevO