Product Owner Corporate

Overview

The Product Owner Data Corporate serves as the strategic leader and primary bridge between requirements and Agile delivery teams within the Data & Insights Excellence department. The role drives an Agile squad of developers and owns product vision, strategy, backlog management, roadmap alignment, and value delivery across the Corporate data portfolio.

What you'll do

• Drive a delivery squad in an Agile culture aligned with Sanofi values and ensure a safe environment.
• Lead by example through active participation in day-to-day product operations, backlog refinement, and stakeholder engagement.
• Define and communicate a coherent, inspiring product vision across the Corporate data portfolio.
• Align roadmaps and maintain a clear, well-structured, and prioritized product backlog with the business.
• Translate high-level strategic objectives into actionable product goals and measurable outcomes.
• Build and sustain strategic relationships with senior business stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Participate in prioritization discussions.
• Represent the product team in executive forums, governance committees, and cross-functional leadership meetings.
• Ensure consistent backlog hygiene standards with appropriate escalation paths for complex or high-impact items.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters and delivery teams to ensure smooth sprint planning and Agile execution.
• Identify, escalate, and resolve impediments that block delivery or reduce team effectiveness.
• Monitor velocity, delivery quality, and team health metrics.
• Define portfolio health metrics and KPIs, and manage risks across the Data & Insights product landscape.
• Ensure strategic alignment between roadmap commitments, team capacity, and evolving business priorities.
• Provide transparent, data-driven portfolio reporting to senior leadership and governance bodies.
• Lead product review meetings, steering committees, and executive-level communications.
• Manage stakeholder expectations with full transparency, proactively surfacing risks and trade-offs.
• Produce clear, compelling communications for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Define and drive the roadmap for product ownership practice maturity within the team.
• Promote product ownership best practices.
• Stay current with industry trends in data, AI, and digital transformation.
• Benchmark internal practices against industry standards.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex digital or data product portfolios in a global organization.
• Team leadership skills.
• Data and technical fluency in data, BI, and AI.
• Business acumen in Finance processes.
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Process management skills.
• Experience with tools and systems like ServiceNow and Jira.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.