Preclarus Product Owner

Product Owner For Preclarus Dashboard Team

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

As a Product Owner supporting the Preclarus dashboard team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will play a key role in translating business needs into scalable, high-impact dashboard solutions. You will partner closely with business stakeholders and a cross-functional development team to define requirements, prioritize work, and deliver data visualization products that drive strategic decision-making.

In this role, you will act as the bridge between business and technology—owning the backlog, clarifying requirements, and ensuring that dashboard features are aligned with user needs and organizational priorities. You will gather and document business requirements, convert them into clear user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with developers, data engineers, and UX designers to bring solutions to life within the Preclarus platform. You will work with a high degree of independence within the defined priorities, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement, and influence decisions through data and stakeholder engagement. You will be expected to manage moderately complex initiatives, balance multiple priorities, and contribute to the evolution of team processes and product strategy.

You will support the full product lifecycle, from discovery and requirements definition through development, testing, and release. By leveraging tools such as Power BI and SQL, you will also contribute to validating outputs, ensuring data accuracy, and continuously improving dashboard functionality. Your work will directly enable stakeholders to access meaningful insights that support Thermo Fisher's mission of enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

In this collaborative environment, you will drive continuous improvement by refining processes, enhancing data products, and advocating for best practices in product/software delivery and dashboard design. You will serve as a key point of contact for stakeholders—facilitating communication, managing expectations, and ensuring successful adoption of delivered solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements and translate them into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications
• Own and manage the product backlog for the Preclarus dashboard team, ensuring alignment with business priorities and strategic objectives
• Partner with developers and technical teams to ensure clear understanding of requirements and successful delivery of dashboard solutions
• Participate in development ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and support iterative delivery
• Validate delivered solutions through testing, data validation, and stakeholder feedback
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define success metrics and ensure dashboards meet business needs
• Identify opportunities to enhance dashboards, improve data quality, and optimize processes
• Support user adoption through documentation creation, training, and ongoing stakeholder engagement

Expectations:

• Independence & Ownership: Operates with limited supervision, managing assigned workstreams and delivering against defined objectives with accountability for outcomes
• Problem Solving: Applies strong analytical skills to address moderately complex business and technical challenges, proposing practical and scalable solutions
• Stakeholder Influence: Builds effective relationships and influences stakeholders across functions, balancing business needs with technical feasibility
• Execution Excellence: Manages multiple priorities effectively, delivering high-quality work on time in a fast-paced, Agile environment
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively identifies opportunities to improve processes, tools, and products, contributing to team efficiency and effectiveness
• Collaboration: Works effectively within cross-functional teams, contributing to a positive team environment and shared goals
• Communication: Clearly communicates requirements, insights, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences

Requirements:

• Advanced Degree with no prior experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 2+ years of experience in business analysis, product ownership, or data-focused roles in a software development environment
• Preferred Fields of Study: Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments, including backlog management and sprint ceremonies
• Demonstrated ability to gather, document, and translate business requirements into user stories and functional specifications
• Experience partnering with software development teams to deliver data products or applications
• Proficiency in Power BI, including dashboard design, data modeling, and DAX (preferred)
• SQL skills with ability to query and validate data across multiple sources is a plus
• Understanding of data visualization best practices and user-centered design principles
• Experience with data warehousing concepts, ETL processes, and data integration workflows
• Familiarity with tools such as Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar for backlog and workflow management
• Experience with AI
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to prioritize work, manage competing demands, and deliver in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with enterprise systems (e.g., Salesforce, SAP) a plus
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and validation practices (preferred)