Körber

Principal Business Architect

Körber

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Portugal

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Project architecture & governance: Design clear project frameworks (objectives, success metrics, milestones, governance) for each innovation initiative.
  • Create roadmaps and decision points (build/kill/scale) and drive project cadence (sprints, reviews, steering committees).
  • Business modeling & planning: Build business cases, revenue models, unit economics and go‑to‑market strategies.
  • Prepare investor‑quality decks, financial scenarios, and 12–36 month growth plans.
  • Identify strategic partners, channels, and customers; negotiate pilots and early commercial agreements.
  • Recommend and execute scaling plans or hand‑offs to business units.
  • Customer & market validation: Run interviews, experiments, and market tests to validate problem/solution fit and customer willingness to pay.
  • Define and monitor validated learning loops (hypotheses → experiments → insights).
  • Product & delivery: Define MVP scope and success criteria; prioritize features and manage backlogs when acting as product lead.
  • Coordinate with product and engineering to launch prototypes, pilots, and early releases.
  • Execution & stakeholder management: Lead cross‑functional teams without direct authority; keep stakeholders aligned and informed.
  • Report progress, risks and next steps to senior leadership; make data‑driven recommendations.
  • People & process: Mentor newer innovation team members; help shape processes for ideation, incubation and scale.

Requirements

  • +10 years experience in roles combining strategy, product and operations (startup founder/early‑stage product manager, strategy consultant, corporate innovation, or VC/venture builder).
  • Proven track record launching or scaling new products/businesses — ideally with responsibility for business models, P&L thinking, or early sales.
  • Strong quantitative skills: financial modeling, unit economics, KPI design and analysis.
  • Product competency: experience defining MVPs, writing user stories, prioritizing backlogs, and working with engineering/design teams.
  • Comfortable running experiments and interpreting results (A/B, cohorts, qualitative feedback).
  • Entrepreneurial, bias to action, and resilient in ambiguity.
  • Excellent communicator: can synthesize complex ideas into clear decisions and influence senior stakeholders.
  • Customer‑obsessed and outcome-oriented.
  • Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Experience in digital transformation in pharma is a plus.
Benefits
  • A high level of autonomy and freedom to make your projects successful.
  • Opportunities to lead the future products of KPHS.
  • A collaborative, mission-driven environment where your voice matters.
  • The chance to shape the digitization of pharma and life sciences.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingunit economicsKPI designMVP definitionuser storiesbacklog prioritizationA/B testingdata analysisbusiness modelinggo-to-market strategies
Soft Skills
communicationleadershipmentoringstrategic thinkingcustomer obsessionoutcome orientationresiliencecollaborationinfluenceproblem-solving