Strategic Planning Analyst jobs in Toms River, NJ

Job Summary

Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Baxter Planning is a dynamic and rapidly growing company setting the standard for SaaS in the service supply chain planning space. We are developing many new products and solutions to build on our success in global markets.

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner to join our team and play a key role in shaping the future of our solutions. The Product Owner is responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by a software Scrum team to ensure impeccable features and functionality of Baxter Planning’s SaaS solutions.  The ideal candidate will be passionate about working with teams to drive outcomes for our customers. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation and technology and wants to be part of an energetic, diverse, and inclusive team to apply. 

Baxter Planning combines the flexibility of a start up with the stability of an established company, leveraging over 30 years of industry expertise to support a rapidly growing customer base. This is an exciting opportunity to join our talented and innovative team based in Barcelona, Spain. We offer flexible hybrid work arrangement, a supportive work environment including team building events and excellent work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Take lead of scrum teams as the product owner
• Provide vision and direction to the agile development team and stakeholders through the project and create requirements.
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product.
• Define product vision, roadmap and growth opportunities.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Work with developers to make architecture and design decisions.
• Review work by developers.
• Work with users and domain experts to gather requirements to improve the functionality and usability of our product.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years of experience with agile development practices
• Attention to detail
• Strong object-oriented analysis and design skills
• Awareness of the scope of development work and data models for reliable technical requirements
• Commitment to continuous self-improvement and education
• Highly self-motivated, self-starter
• Results oriented
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Desired

• Track record of delivering scalable, high-performance enterprise software
• Experience with supply chain management
• Experience applying domain analysis and design patterns to practical software problems
• Expertise with Java

What we offer:

• Work in a young, dynamic, and multicultural team
• Permanent work contract
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working model – only one day in the office
• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for growth in an international company
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible benefits
• Gym access
• Quarterly team building events

Employer will not sponsor visas for this position.

EO Statement

Baxter Planning is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Baxter Planning is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.