# Associate Director, Product Owner - ODS

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Associate Director-Product Owner - ODS (Operational Data Store) is responsible for maximising the value of their HR Product portfolio by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the HR product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities.

- Own and manage the Product backlog, ensuring requirements are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs.

- Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity.

- Lead the Product team’s delivery activities, guiding Engineers, Architects, and Testers to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to architectural standards.

- Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist covering support model requirements, training needs, continuity planning, configuration/runbook documentation, release notes, and user onboarding.

- Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals, and support effort.

- Ensure product changes follow required SOX standards, security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes.

- Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies, contract/interface impacts, and sequencing needs.

- Act as an escalation point for the HR Product team and business users on functional product issues.

- Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product, promoting agile, iterative, value-driven, and data-led ways of working.

- Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working.

Required Skills & Qualification:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering).

- 15 to 19 years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.

- Knowledge of functional domains within Global Functions (e.g. HR) and familiarity with the technology platforms that enable them (e.g. Workday).

- Understanding of product performance measures and KPIs.

- Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements and managing a product backlog.

- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.

- Demonstrated ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value, process impact, risk, cost, and technology constraints.

- Experience leading delivery teams or analysts through the product lifecycle.

- Familiarity with enterprise governance requirements.

- Exposure to continuous improvement approaches.

- Experience working within agile delivery environments.

## Skills

### Required
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Automation
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Data Management
- Design Thinking
- Digital Solutions
- Human Resources Integration
- Operational Data Store (ODS)
- Product Delivery
- Requirements Gathering
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Workday HCM

### Nice to have
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Skilled in coaching and guiding Associate Product Owners and delivery team members
- Able to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data
- Comfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements
- Strong analytical mindset

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