Product Manager

About the job

Role Summary As a Product Manager within SPE, you will play a key role in leading and coaching across the project delivery lifecycle, promoting shared learning, continuous improvement, and adoption of best practices. Your work will directly contribute to the success of our software engineering mission, ensuring high-quality, reliable, and effective software solutions that deliver value to our customers. What You’ll Be Doing: • Lead and coach across the project delivery lifecycle, promoting shared learning, continuous improvement, and adoption of best practices. • Provide mentorship and guidance to accelerate development of solution architecture and technical expertise. • Drive resourcing efforts through effective selection techniques, testing, and interviews to support team growth. • Organise and manage work within an Agile/Scrum team, actively participating in sprint ceremonies (planning, estimation, execution, reporting) and proactively identifying risks and impediments. • Identify synergies, reuse opportunities, and lead proof-of-concept initiatives for emerging technologies to improve delivery efficiency and prepare teams for adoption. • Take responsibility for authoring technical documents, including design documents, requirements specifications, process flows, user stories, and other relevant documentation to support business analysis and project delivery. • Act as a product manager by shaping product vision, prioritising features, and aligning delivery with business goals. • Serve as scrum master for your team, facilitating agile ceremonies, removing impediments, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. How You Will Succeed: • Demonstrate strong communication, leadership, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities. • Exhibit strong interpersonal skills, with a focus on teamwork and mentorship. • Thrive in ambiguous environments, maintaining a positive and energetic attitude focused on business impact. • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, with awareness of technical workflows and dependencies. • Apply familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies, including tools like Jira and GitHub Actions (workflow awareness only). • Understand IT service management (ITSM) and ITIL principles. • Approach business challenges with strong problem-solving skills and a product mindset. What You Should Bring: • Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams. • Experience working in regulated industries, including understanding of regulations, SOPs, and compliance frameworks. • Demonstrated curiosity, enthusiasm, and willingness to learn new technologies. • Experience working in Scrum/agile methodologies from a Product Manager perspective: • Managing and refining requirements in Jira. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams during sprint ceremonies. • Supporting build and deployment processes. • Awareness of source management tools like GitHub Actions. • Experience in regulated industries (e.g., Life Sciences) is a bonus but not required.

Requirements

• Agile
• Scrum
• Project management
• Cross-functional collaboration

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-8 years of experience

Preferred Technologies

• Agile
• Scrum
• Project management
• Cross-functional collaboration

About the company

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.