ROBAR Technical Product Owner / Implementation Lead

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced ROBAR Technical Product Owner / Implementation Lead to support the implementation and deployment of a future-state enterprise labeling solution within a global regulated manufacturing environment. This role will work closely with business stakeholders, manufacturing sites, quality and validation teams, application engineers, implementation partners, and technical leadership to design, implement, validate, and deploy an enterprise labeling platform. The ideal candidate will have direct ROBAR experience or extensive experience implementing comparable enterprise label management platforms within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or other highly regulated manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert for the implementation and deployment of the ROBAR enterprise labeling platform.
• Partner with the Technical Product Owner and business stakeholders to define product vision, implementation priorities, and deployment roadmap.
• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, technical, and compliance requirements for enterprise labeling processes.
• Translate business requirements into user stories, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, configuration requirements, and implementation tasks.
• Manage or support the product backlog, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and release planning.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and solution design workshops with manufacturing, quality, regulatory, supply chain, technology, and business stakeholders.
• Define future-state workflows for label creation, template management, review and approval, print execution, revision control, lifecycle management, and retirement.
• Configure or support configuration of the ROBAR platform while ensuring alignment with approved business processes and enterprise standards.
• Coordinate integrations between ROBAR and ERP, MES, PLM, product master data, regulatory, and printing systems.
• Support interface specifications, master data mapping, variable data mapping, technical design reviews, and integration activities.
• Evaluate local manufacturing site labeling processes, identify process gaps, and align site-specific requirements with the global enterprise solution.
• Support migration of legacy label templates, product information, label data, and configuration into the new platform.
• Partner with Quality and Validation teams to ensure compliance with GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), 21 CFR Part 11, electronic records, electronic signatures, audit trails, and data integrity requirements.
• Develop and review User Requirements Specifications (URS), Functional Specifications (FS), traceability documentation, validation documentation, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria.
• Support system, integration, regression, user acceptance, validation, and production readiness testing.
• Coordinate defect triage and ensure functional and technical issues are resolved prior to production deployment.
• Participate in deployment planning, cutover rehearsals, go-live readiness activities, production deployment, and post-production hypercare.
• Develop product documentation, process documentation, training materials, and user guidance.
• Establish product performance metrics and identify opportunities to improve labeling quality, compliance, usability, operational efficiency, and governance.
• Support transition of the platform into a sustainable product support and governance model.

Required Qualifications

• Experience serving as a Technical Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Systems Lead, Business Analyst, or Implementation Lead for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience implementing enterprise labeling, label management, artwork management, or regulated printing solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise labeling processes including label templates, variable data, approval workflows, print execution, revision control, template governance, and label lifecycle management.
• Experience translating business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience coordinating integrations between labeling applications and ERP, MES, PLM, master data, manufacturing, and printing systems.
• Strong understanding of application configuration, interface design, data mapping, master data, and production deployment.
• Experience working in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, life sciences, or other regulated manufacturing environments.
• Strong knowledge of GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), data integrity, controlled application change processes, and 21 CFR Part 11.
• Experience supporting validation, integration testing, regression testing, UAT, defect management, deployment, and hypercare.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to drive decisions across business, technology, manufacturing, quality, and regulatory organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct implementation, configuration, or product ownership experience with ROBAR.
• Experience with ROBAR workflows, integrations, label templates, master data, variable data, and printing processes.
• Experience with enterprise labeling platforms such as Loftware, NiceLabel, or BarTender.
• Experience integrating labeling solutions with SAP, Siemens Opcenter or other MES platforms, PLM systems, product master data, and shop-floor printing environments.
• Experience supporting medical device labeling, pharmaceutical packaging, UDI, and global product labeling requirements.
• Experience leading enterprise platform deployments across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Agile product management experience including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, and roadmap management.

Preferred Industry Background

• Pharmaceutical
• Biotechnology
• Medical Device
• Life Sciences
• Other FDA-regulated Manufacturing Environments