Serialization Product Owner - Freelance

Project Details

- Location: Europe (CET)

- Work mode: Full remote with sporadic on-site travel

- Start date: ASAP

- Duration: 6 months

- Extension possibility: Yes

- Language(s): English

Project Summary

We are looking for a Product Owner for our Serialization and Traceability ecosystem within our Digital Manufacturing and Supply organization. You will own the lifecycle, roadmap and compliance of the platforms supporting site-level serialization and aggregation, global traceability and regulatory reporting, B2B connectivity with CMOs, and serialization alert and exception management.

Two priorities: keep these GxP-regulated, business-critical services running without disruption across manufacturing sites, CMOs and affiliates, and contribute to a platform modernization program aimed at moving one of the core serialization applications to a standard version hosted in our cloud environment.

Main Responsibilities & Key Activities

- Act as Product Owner for the Serialization ecosystem, defining priorities, roadmap and product direction across all serialization and traceability platforms.

- Own the multi-year roadmap and prioritize enhancements, regulatory requirements, technical debt reduction and transformation initiatives.

- Ensure stable, reliable and compliant operation of serialization applications with no business disruption across the manufacturing and supply network.

- Govern incident, problem, change and release management activities, monitor service performance, KPIs and vendor SLAs, and lead major incident resolution and business continuity activities.

- Partner with business stakeholders, Serialization Operations, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, manufacturing sites, CMOs, affiliates and Digital teams to translate business needs and regulatory requirements into product priorities.

- Contribute strategically to the platform modernization program: future-state solution definition, target capabilities, business continuity and roadmap alignment.

- Govern vendor performance, support model, releases, enhancements, incidents, problem management and lifecycle activities with serialization platform vendors and B2B connectivity providers.

- Ensure GxP compliance, computerized system validation, audit readiness, data integrity and regulatory reporting continuity across the serialization landscape.

- Coordinate with a Serialization Functional Expert and a Serialization Project Manager in a dotted-line matrix model (2 people plus vendors) to secure delivery of new functionalities, regulatory changes, releases and lifecycle activities.

- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Integration teams on major initiatives. Technical architecture ownership remains with Enterprise Architecture.

- Provide regular status updates to Digital Manufacturing leadership and key stakeholders on product risks, decisions, priorities and delivery progress.