Remote Product Owner

Primary City/State:

Phoenix, Arizona

Department Name:

IT Bus Apps Insurance Division

Work Shift:

Day

Job Category:

Information Technology

Primary Location Salary Range:

$37.48/hr - $62.47/hr, based on education & experience

In accordance with Colorado’s EPEWA Equal Pay Transparency Rules.

Innovation and highly trained staff. The Information Technology professionals at Banner Health are utilizing cutting edge technology to change health care for the better. If you’re ready to change lives, we want to hear from you.

The Insurance Division IT Claims System Management team is responsible for enabling technology to process, adjudicate, automate and monitor all business processes to enhance the Provider, Member and Employee experiences across Banner Health. This team takes great pride in leveraging innovative technologies to solve complex circumstances and provide oversight of products across its life cycle to ensure each meet the needs of our internal and external customers.

As an IT Product Owner, you will act as an integral leader toward the creation and communication of strategic plans, oversight of large-scale projects, process design & documentation, and every component in between. In conjunction, our Support and Development team plays a vital role in developing functioning applications within the Insurance Claims Division. Your experience with IDX, its myriad of integrated applications, and ability to leverage agile values, principles and methodologies, will directly transform Banner Health’s Insurance Division technology.

Your pay and benefits are important components of your journey at Banner Health. This opportunity includes the option to participate in a variety of health, financial, and security benefits. In addition, this position may be eligible for our Management Incentive Program as part of your Total Rewards package.

Within Banner Health Corporate, you will have the opportunity to apply your unique experience and expertise in support of a nationally-recognized healthcare leader. We offer stimulating and rewarding careers in a wide array of disciplines. Whether your background is in Human Resources, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Managed Care Programs or Public Relations, you'll find many options for contributing to our award-winning patient care.

POSITION SUMMARY
This position is a high level strategic contributor and leader that will oversee business planning, tactical execution, and business integration of all digital initiatives; inclusive of, but not limited to, web site development, mobile platform and presence, internal application development, content management, self-service adoption, and ongoing maintenance of electronic channels. Incumbents are to provide managerial oversight and technical guidance to assigned product team members.

CORE FUNCTIONS
1. Translate emerging customer needs and technologies into actionable business terms and associated plans. Manage the process of Business Governance and prioritization of all enhancement requests to any and all electronic channels. Assure that the proper business case has been provided and the solution fits with overall strategic direction.

2. Develop solutions by applying accepted processes or is able to create new approaches to leverage technology from abstract information. Review and consult on design and content of all digital projects to ensure consistency across electronic platforms, efficiency and lack of redundancy, appropriateness of statistical analysis, and relevance to business and strategic objectives.

3. Provide leadership and mentorship to team members in the areas of strategy, external research and benchmarking, best-practice analysis, business analysis, and ultimately implementation of electronic solutions to our customers. Leads a team of information technology professionals, end user customers and vendors to assemble request for information/proposal (RFI/RFP), return on investment (ROI) calculations, capital or operating budgets data or other high level strategic specifications and documents.

4. Establish and manage an effective dashboard of metrics that communicates objectives of initiatives and the progress towards specific goals. Oversee the effective, correct, and consistent application of data analysis and decision making based on fact for all information feeds into the innovation process for the Digital Business Technology team. Promote the use of data analysis and fact based decision-making. Educates and influences business leaders on the most effective use of electronic channel options from both a short-term and long-term perspective. Maintains a significant role in the creation of strategic technology plans.

5. Provides leadership for company staff, information technology staff and various committees guiding the design, implementation and maintenance of complex application and system specifications and processes. Participates and may lead taskforces to plan, implement, and coordinate facility activities to maximize information technology service quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

6. Designs and administers complex standards and policies regarding application and end user customer documentation. Ensures that department and company standards are implemented and consistently adhered to.

7. Provides high level expertise to the development of fully integrated testing scenarios. Ensures that the information systems across multiple levels and states and their relationships are considered and are part of the comprehensive testing plans.

8. Maintains current professional and technical knowledge relating to the healthcare industry by attending educational workshops/conferences, establishing personal networks, and/or maintaining relevant certification or licensure as business needs require.

9. Incumbents are to lead a team of IT Professionals as well as providing team members with technical guidance as needed. Incumbents are to foresee and resolve customer issues and provide solutions that meet the needs of the organization. Incumbents are to manage resources to resolve conflicting objectives and priorities and to stay within budget guidelines.

Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards. Provides all customers of Banner Health with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.

NOTE: The core functions are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented as outlined by the incumbent's immediate manager.

Banner Health Leadership will strive to uphold the mission, values, and purpose of the organization. They will serve as role models for staff and act in a people-centered, service excellence-focused, and results-oriented manner.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Must possess a strong technical and business knowledge as typically obtained through the completion of a bachelor's degree related field.

Must also have in-depth knowledge of concepts within job function as would normally be obtained in 5 years’ work experience in the field. 4 years of experience with user-centered design for mobile/web apps or large, content-rich consumer sites. Must be able to develop conceptual sketches, wire-frames, visual mock-ups, and develop prototypes for demonstration of concepts with the business stakeholder. Must demonstrate general knowledge of information technology and healthcare. Needs experience in medium scale project planning and reporting, either individual or team. Requires communication and presentation skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences. Requires ability to communicate and interact across facilities and at various levels. Incumbent will have skills to mentor less experienced team members.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Additional related education and/or experience preferred.