Japan Offering & Contracting Product Owner (Tokyo)
Job Description
At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
＜Position Title＞ Japan Offering & Contracting Product Owner
＜Working Location＞ Tokyo
＜About Global Pricing & Contract Value Delivery＞
Pricing & Contracting center of excellence for Product Ownership for technology-driven transformation, unlocking scale and powering growth. We own value delivery and drive impact by enabling efficient, agile, and data-informed solutions. translate vision into action, connecting business and technology to deliver meaningful outcomes.
＜Main Responsibilities＞
As Product owner you own the vision behind the products for Japan contracting and offer development. Delivering the product that addresses customer needs and contributes to the goals of the organization.
Core responsibilities:
1. Close collaboration with business stakeholders to understand the current pain points and gap in contracting and offer development processes and partner with IT to select the right technology product for resolution
2. Gather customer requirements to map the product vision and scope
3. Translate the product vision into product backlog
4. Prioritize and manage the product backlog to deliver the right value at the right time
5. Lead the Japan P&C Agile Pod to ensure the Agile pod focuses on what truly drives business impact — balancing stakeholder needs, strategic goals, and user insights.
6. Manage the end-to-end product life cycle. (transformation, grow, run)
7. Partner with global data core and analytics teams to support analytics package creation to enable better decision/actions for contracting and offer development
＜Must Haves＞
Job Experience
Minimum 6 years of experience with leading end to end program/project execution
Experience in multinational/international companies
Experience with technical product launches in a lead role
Skill / Knowledge
Fluent with Japanese and English
Good stakeholder management and communication skills
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies
Strong problem-solving skills
Good influencing skills
Able to translate customer needs into a scalable technical solution that brings value
Able to understand the implication of architecture design for alignment with solution architects on the best option for the product, however it’s not required for PO to have skills of mapping architecture design, mainly to understand the why and impact of design for product roadmap, timeline and value delivery to make an informed product strategic decision
Competency
Effective communicator with both business and technical stakeholders
Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional and technical teams
Self-driven, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
Education
Bachelor’s degree or above
＜Nice to Haves＞
Job Experience
Experience in the medical device, healthcare, or life sciences industry
Experience as a product owner or in a related product management role within an agile software development environment
Skill / Knowledge
Understand the basics of Lean Six Sigma methodologies
Strong analytics skills to partner with analytics team SMEs to translate customer needs into an action driven insight
Familiarity with major CRM platforms
Knowledge of Salesforce functionalities
Knowledge of Jira, Miro, and Analytics tool like Power BI
Competency
Having any certificates within Agile and project management is a plus (PMP, certified product owner, certified scrum master, lean six sigma green belt etc.,)
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here