🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland · 16h ago
Technical Product Owner - Legal - RDT Group Functions
Roche
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At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.The PositionTechnical Product Owner - Legal - RDT Group Functions We are looking for an experienced Technical Business Analyst and Product Owner to partner with Business Product Owners and stakeholders in Legal to translate requirements into strategic digital solutions. You will work closely with the IT Product Manager to shape the strategic vision, roadmap, and delivery of Legal-related products within Roche. This includes supporting platforms that span global teams across both Pharma and Diagnostics.The Technical Business Analyst and Product Owner will play a key role in analyzing complex business processes, identifying optimization opportunities, and enabling the automation and digitization of workflows - ranging from review and approval to oversight, monitoring, and governance frameworks - while ensuring alignment with the "One Roche" philosophy.About Our Team: RDT Legal Product Sitting within the broader Legal, Compliance & Group Communication division, our team partners with the Legal department to enable efficiency and effectiveness through legal-specific solutions. Working hand-in-hand, we blend IT expertise with business know-how to support Legal at every step of their digital journey.The Legal Product portfolio covers solutions for legal spend and matter management, document management, and contract management, as well as workflows and reporting. We handle the entire lifecycle of these solutions - whether we build (make) or buy, manage, or operate them.Key ResponsibilitiesBusiness Requirements & Process AnalysisConduct detailed discovery and analysis of processes across legal global teams to identify current pain points, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunitiesTranslate complex business requirements into clear functional specifications and technical requirements for development teamsDevelop comprehensive business cases and impact assessments for legal products, quantifying benefits (cost reduction, time savings, risk mitigation) aligned to organizational goalsCreate and maintain detailed process maps, workflow diagrams, and requirements documentation to ensure shared understanding across stakeholdersStrategic Alignment & PartnershipCollaborate with the Business Product Owner to define product strategies and outcomes that address organizational business objectivesActively contribute to the global legal technology strategy through technical insights and feasibility analysis, including the development and alignment of long-term goals (e.g., Data Domain & AI-driven solutions)Partner with external vendors and internal teams across Roche to assess existing platforms, propose innovative approaches, and ensure optimal solutions for Legal ProductsConduct gap analysis between current state processes and target state solutions to inform product roadmap decisionsVendor Selection & Requirement ManagementCollaborate with the Product Manager and the Business Owner on vendor evaluations by defining functional and technical requirements, evaluating software capabilities, and contributing expert technical criteria to Request for Proposals (RFPs)Build trust and act as a key interface between Roche and external service providers to ensure value delivery, feasibility, and alignment with Roche standardsEngage closely with Procurement to adopt Roche good practice and ensure sufficient due diligence is applied, not only on functional and technically fit, but also fulfilling the security and privacy requirements, especially on sensitive or confidential information and data protection considerationsDevelop and refine Request for Proposals (RFPs), evaluation frameworks, and vendor scorecards aligned to business prioritiesCross-Functional Stakeholder Management & Requirement Harmonization Facilitate requirements workshops and discovery sessions across Legal to gather, consolidate, and prioritize business needsAct as a critical liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating business requirements into technical approaches and vice versaReconcile conflicting stakeholder requirements related to functionality, timelines, funding, and feasibility, proposing data-driven prioritization recommendationsAlign requirements across Pharma and Diagnostics to advance a "One Roche" strategy across technical infrastructure and data governanceProduct Development & ImplementationOwn the Technical Solution definition and business requirements management for legal platforms from the ideation stage through delivery, adoption, support and transitionDefine incremental goals with measurable business outcomes, enabling continuous value delivery and feature refinementDevelop detailed acceptance criteria, test scenarios, and success metrics tied to business objectives (process efficiency, compliance, effectiveness, user adoption)Collaborate with technical teams on development, enhancement, and integration activities for legal platformsAssess whether to integrate systems into broader Roche platforms or develop or buy standalone solutions based on stakeholder goals, regulatory and compliance requirementsSupport user acceptance testing (UAT), training requirements, and change management planning based on business impact analysisGovernance, Risk, and ComplianceEnsure all legal platforms align with Roche’s legal, regulatory, data privacy, and security standards; document compliance requirements and audit trailsMonitor regulatory and industry trends in the legal landscape, evaluating impacts to current and future product requirementsMaintain traceability between business requirements, regulatory requirements, and implemented solutionsProduct Operations & Life Cycle Management:Vendor Release Management: Coordinate with external SaaS and software vendors to track, evaluate, and implement technical releases, ensuring smooth system upgrades with minimal impact on business operationsApplication Health & Performance: Partner with support teams to monitor product performance, track system uptime, resolve application-specific issues, and act as a senior technical escalation point for Level 2/3 support pipelinesTechnical Debt & Lifecycle Maintenance: Proactively identify, track, and prioritize technical debt, system bugs, and minor enhancement requests within the product backlog alongside new feature requestsDocumentation & Technical Readiness: Own the creation and maintenance of technical product documentation, system configurations, and technical release notes to ensure operational readiness for all platform updatesKey Skills & Competencies:Business Analysis ExpertiseProven experience conducting business analysis, requirements elicitation, and process modeling, ideally in the environment of LegalDemonstrated ability to develop business cases, perform cost-benefit analyses, and quantify business value of digital solutionsStrong understanding of processes in Legal in global corporate and pharmaceutical/diagnostics contextsExperience with requirements management tools, workflow mapping, and documentation methodologiesTechnical & System ExpertiseStrong understanding of IT systems, databases, and platform architectures, particularly in Legal, or related fieldsExperience with product lifecycle management and delivering solutions through implementation and adoption phasesKnowledge of innovations such as AI and automation for legal solutions is an advantageStakeholder Engagement & CommunicationExceptional ability to build trust and facilitate alignment across multifunctional, global teams with competing prioritiesSkilled at translatingSourced from LinkedIn. 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