Healthcare Product Owner - Remote

Perficient currently has a career opportunity for a Healthcare Product Owner - REMOTE in our National Healthcare Business Unit. While our headquarters location is St. Louis, MO, this position is remote and can be based anywhere within the continental United States.
Healthcare and life sciences leaders count on us to solve complex business challenges and drive better care experiences. We have been trusted by the 10 largest health systems, 10 largest health insurers, and more than 150 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and clinical research organizations to deliver world-class capabilities and experience with leading technology innovators. We’ve earned multiple vendor, industry, and analyst recognitions, and Modern Healthcare’s 2022 survey ranks us as the fourth largest healthcare IT consulting firm.
Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly growing, global, digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, experience work-life balance and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse and knowledgeable colleagues.
Responsibilities

• Lead teams of engineers through the completion of all phases of the project.
• Understand complexities of a large program and provide guidance for the development teams.
• Manage milestones across multiple teams.
• Establish common goals across multiple teams, and define useful metrics and reporting to track team performance.
• Interact with product managers, project managers and other organizational units such as QA, operations, and external IT partners.
• Negotiate scope, schedule, and funding with external IT and business partners.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with proposal creation and leading proposal presentations.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with Global Delivery Model is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution.
• 3-5+ years of healthcare industry experience in Product Owner or related role, payer or provider side or both, in consulting or directly, with strong relationship management, account management, and sales support experience.
• Hands on experience with gathering, managing and prioritizing product backlog. Well-versed in industry best-practices and current technologies.
• Must have experience in agile environment and Jira
• 3-5+ years of Product Owner experience including in Healthcare industry - and experience with full product lifecycle
• Wide variety of IT and business consulting engagement experience.
• Highly proficient in collaborating with product and project stakeholders, end-users, business partners, and technical team members to deliver high quality projects.
• Flexibility to travel.

Preferred skills:

• Experience with mandates and government affairs
• CSPO Certification
• Scrum/Agile Methodology

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.
What We Believe
At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you'll become part of something special.
We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We're committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we're not done yet.
Perficient Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.
Disability Accommodations: Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.
Disclaimer: The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.
About Us
Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, experience work-life balance, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

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