Agile Product Management Advisor

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Agile Product Management Advisor (Care Services MEA) MEA Transformation Office External Job Description: Agile Product Manager (APM) Role Purpose: The Agile Product Manager owns the product vision & direction and ensures alignment between business, portfolio, customer needs, and delivery execution.  The role prioritizes outcomes over outputs, and is responsible for defining desirable, viable, and sustainable solutions that meet customer needs. The Product Manager is responsible for understanding internal stakeholders and end users deeply, identifying potential opportunities for new products or features, and defining the strategic direction of their product.  The role exercises considerable creativity, foresight, and judgment in conceiving, planning, and delivering initiatives.  Ideal candidate must possess a broad base of skills and knowledge spanning technology, strategy and business planning, user experience design, and agile development practices.  The position is aligned to Health Operations & Care Services experience for the Cigna Healthcare MEA business, with leadership responsibility for the scrum team’s Product Owners.  A key focus area will be driving the discovery and delivery for Claims Management, Access to Care, Clinical Care Management, Customer Services, and Provider Management – enabling straight-through processing, AI-driven decision support, member and provider experience improvements, and regulatory-compliant operations across Cigna Healthcare MEA. The individual acts as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology to set objectives, communicate capability requirements, and establish roadmaps based on strategic priorities and optimizing value.  The role partners closely with Portfolio Managers, ensuring product roadmaps align to approved initiatives and strategic objectives of the customers and business area they represent.  They are responsible for clearly articulating and sharing their product vision across the portfolio and team levels.  Coordination and alignment with EPIC outcome owners and delivery leads is a key aspect of the role, as the Product Manager is accountable for decomposing EPIC initiatives into features in collaboration with the Product Owners for scrum teams to deliver.  The individual guides the team towards successful delivery in close collaboration with the System Architect and Release Train Engineer at the program level.  Key Responsibilities: • Own and articulate the product vision and roadmap aligned with business strategy, customer needs, and market context. • Align roadmap priorities and capacity allocation with portfolio leaders. • Collaborate with Customer Experience, Data & Analytics, and Architecture to shape and evolve the product roadmap. • Lead product discovery using Design Thinking to identify feasible, desirable, and viable solutions. • Shape product evolution as Epics and facilitate decomposition into Features. • Leverage data, insights, and customer feedback to validate hypotheses and continuously improve products. • Align product metrics with business objectives to ensure strategic relevance. • Use metrics to guide roadmap decisions and feature prioritization focused on value. • Track and report metrics demonstrating measurable business outcomes in collaboration with Outcome Owners. • Work with Portfolio Managers and Epic Delivery Leads to agree on delivery priorities and track progress. • Communicate product vision and roadmap with the Agile Release Train (ART). • Share priorities during PI Planning to ensure alignment and focus. • Manage and prioritize the ART feature backlog to maximize value delivery. • Collaborate with Release Train Engineer (RTE) to foster a predictable and accountable delivery culture. • Be accountable for transitioning Fea

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