Agile Product Management Advisor - The Cigna Group
Bloomfield, CT
About the Job
This is a temporary contract opportunity with The Cigna Group through Magnit, an enterprise third-party vendor for contingent work.
Global Intake Planning & Delivery (GIPD), Global Infrastructure & Operations
Role Summary/Key Objectives:
The Agile Product Manager (APM) owns all aspects of their technical products leading business value creation and managing overall product health. The APM applies specialized product knowledge and expertise to understand business and technology objectives, communicate the product vision and roadmap, prioritize and translate needs into requirements to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Working with multiple Scrum/Kanban teams.
- Understanding and managing team capacity & optimizing performance, building trusted relationships
- Understanding dependencies & broad knowledge of product/service offerings
- Continuous status reporting, developing, and producing actionable insights including KPI’s, scorecards and ongoing daily/monthly reports, working with Community of Practice to review trends and needs for additional services
- Identifying and engaging necessary stakeholders, technology, and expertise to drive alignment within projects or programs
- Being a passionate advocate, with the ability to identify, champion customer needs, and improve with agile principles in mind
- Coaching the engineering team on agile methodologies as it applies to their team structure
Specific areas of responsibility are:
- Manages capacity and work for two Scrum/Kanban Access Management Product Responsible for communicating vision, goals and business value. Prepares, executes and incorporates feedback from customers.
- Change Agent - ability to analyze processes and determine improvements by suggesting optimization of workflows within
- Backlog Grooming - In charge of backlog management, looking for value – adding additional user stories based on project/sponsor need and assessing the prioritization of existing work to ensure there is proper sequencing,
- Build and maintain relationships with other teams in the wider IT organization
Following Skills are highly Recommended:
- Access Management Experience.
- Strong Jira experience including creating structures and dashboards.
- 1+ years of experience in Product Management
- Excellent communicator - written and verbal
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in IT or 3+ years of experience in the IT sector
- Agile Certifications - Product Manager, CSPO, SAFe Recommended
Hourly Pay Rate Range (dependent on location, experience, expectation)
The pay range that Magnit reasonably expects to pay for this position is: $33.62 - $44.83/hr
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)