Product Analyst

AbbVie - Mettawa, IL

Full-time

Mettawa, IL

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The Product Analyst at AbbVie plays a vital role in the technology product lifecycle, focusing on the development and management of technology programs that support the Commercial Finance & Planning groups across various therapeutic areas. This position involves analyzing business processes, documenting requirements, and managing technology products from ideation to operation, contributing to the digital transformation of the company.

Responsibilities

• Support the Product Owner in managing technology products from ideation to operation, ensuring cross-functional alignment on project scope, solution, deliverables, and timeline.
• Understand current business processes and strategies, educating stakeholders on existing technology capabilities and proposing enhancements.
• Identify current and emerging unmet business needs, evaluating features and technology solutions to address those needs.
• Elicit, define, validate, and document business requirements with input from business and BTS stakeholders, coordinating meetings and participating in discovery sessions.
• Oversee the health of all BTS documentation related to specific technology products, including BRD or User Stories (JIRA) and other living documents.
• Manage demand intake, scope clarification, epic and story grooming, estimating, traceability, and generating timeline plans.
• Define and execute UAT and testing strategies, release management, and validate engineering decisions.
• Conduct training and identify process disconnects, translating them into improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate end-to-end testing and performance testing throughout the project development phases.
• Ensure compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years' experience; Master's Degree with 5 years' experience; PhD with 0 years' experience.
• Excellent communication and people skills, with the ability to build trust and ask effective questions.
• Ability to interact with business stakeholders to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
• Deep experience in eliciting, defining, and writing requirements for business application delivery in a pharmaceutical/healthcare setting.
• Experience with Reporting & analytics, BI and Visualization capabilities, and Business Process workflow or automation.
• Demonstrable expertise in Agile methodology, process and ceremonies, and Dev/Ops methodology, along with tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Nice-to-haves

• Relevant experience with Business Intelligence, Reporting and Data Management capabilities in a financial planning & analysis setting.
• Thorough understanding of SLC (Software Life Cycle) phases, including Build and Run aspects of a Technology Product.