Product Owner, Data & Analytics

Are you ready to take end-to-end ownership of a data value chain, from generation to analytics, and drive innovation in a leading global healthcare company? We are looking for a Product Owner to strengthen the data foundation and analytics capabilities around Novo Nordisk’s customer engagement activities in Japan. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to meet business goals and can combine technical expertise with excellent stakeholder management, then this might be the perfect opportunity for you to join our dynamic team of Digital professionals in the heart of Tokyo. This unique role combines Product Owner type responsibilities with hand-on-implementation and supervising of engineering efforts. Apply today for a life-changing career!
 

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation and supervision in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases.
 
The position  
As the Product Owner, Data and Analytics at Novo Nordisk, it combines Product Owner type responsibilities with hand-on-implementation and supervising of engineering efforts. 
you will have the following key responsibilities:

• Customer Engagement Data & Analytics (business domain): Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of all data products and analytics products related to commercial interactions with our customers through various channels, from design to maintenance and eventual deprecation. This includes the Customer Engagement Taxonomy (CET), a key Data Product which harmonizes, consolidates, categorizes, and applies specific counting and scoring logic to interaction data from various owned and third-party channels, serving as a Single Source of Truth for business consumption.
• Agile Product Ownership: Manage relationships and expectations with internal customers (e.g., other analytics product owners or business side analysts) who rely on your data and analytics products. Engage proactively to understand their priorities and needs, and how your data products create value for the business. Reflect this in a prioritized public backlog with estimates and high-level requirements. Ensure requirements are correctly captured and signed off by internal customers before initiating development and verify the implementation prior to facilitating the User Acceptance process. Ensure your products have sufficient business documentation, including definitions related to dimensions and KPIs. Proactively onboard key internal customers to promote use and value realization and participate in business forums where definitions and KPIs are discussed and decided.
• Data and Analytics Engineering: Implement and Maintain Data Products on our Snowflake-based Data Platform and Analytics Products in PowerBI, QlikSense, and/or Streamlit, through a combination of hands-on work and supervising work by junior engineers (usually vendor side), depending on the task. Ensure adherence to engineering principles and best practices on the Data Platform through alignment and collaboration with the local Platform Owner. Handle data ingestions and integrations to, from, and between the different parts of our Customer Engagement Platform, consisting of our field force CRM system, email marketing automation solution, event management solution, online customer portal, and aforementioned content tagging solution. Ensure an appropriate level of technical documentation related to the implementation.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Balance strategic product ownership responsibilities with detailed technical work. Manage your own budget and dedicated engineering capacity (approximately 0.5-1.5 FTE expected through vendor). Identify bottlenecks, flag resourcing risks, and negotiate timelines and resources based on the expectations of management and stakeholders. Collaborate with the Product Owners of the Customer Engagement Platform and other teams to ensure adequate support for both product and engineering tasks. Leverage resources such as dedicated engineering teams or additional product managers as needed. Represent Japan's efforts in the customer engagement data & analytics domain towards global stakeholders and align on our behalf. Participate in global alignment and knowledge-sharing meetings to ensure cohesive and integrated efforts across regions.

 
Qualifications

• Must have a minimum bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 5 years of total professional experience, with at least:
  3 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, business intelligence engineering and/or software engineering.
  2 years of experience in proactive, stakeholder facing roles such as Project Manager or Product Owner.
  2 years of experience from modern software development methodologies such as Scrum, SAFe and/or DevOps.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python and dimensional modelling is mandatory. Experience from the following is considered a plus: Pharmaceutical Industry, global or multinational working environment, Budget and vendor management, SnowFlake (or similar) or dbt (or similar) or PowerBI (or similar).
• “Business First” mindset with strong interest and opinions on the business application of your data domain.
• Excellent English communication skills are mandatory; Japanese proficiency is strongly preferred.

 
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
Please upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
 

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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