Job Description Summary
Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:
Drives Scrum adoption across all levels in the organization.
Assessing and leading scrum team, organization and coaching to higher level of maturity
Facilitate agile team ceremonies, participate and contribute to daily synchronization meetings
Facilitate with your team the estimation and planning for creation of useful, reliable and practical plans for next Program Increment and support Product management Team in high level estimation of the product roadmap
Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blocker
Own project burn ups/metrics (velocity tracking/forecasting)
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information
Being involved in cutting edge technology, development and quality practices, driving continuous improvement and mentoring the teams in these areas
Assists Product Managers/ Owners, System Architect and stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
Contribute outside the team to standardize new ways of working and Promote team building/team accountability
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
- Drives Scrum adoption across all levels in the organization.
- Assessing and leading scrum team, organization and coaching to higher level of maturity
- Facilitate agile team ceremonies, participate and contribute to daily synchronization meetings
- Facilitate with your team the estimation and planning for creation of useful, reliable and practical plans for next Program Increment and support Product management Team in high level estimation of the product roadmap
- Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blocker
- Own project burn ups/metrics (velocity tracking/forecasting)
- Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information
- Being involved in cutting edge technology, development and quality practices, driving continuous improvement and mentoring the teams in these areas
- Assists Product Managers/ Owners, System Architect and stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
- Contribute outside the team to standardize new ways of working and Promote team building/team accountability
Essential Requirements:
7+ years’ experience as Scrum Master PSM -1 / PSM -2 / CSM / CSP certification is mandatory Business understanding of pharmaceutical industry and data standards. Domain experience in at least one of the following areas – a) Pharma R&D, b) Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain and c) Marketing and Sales.
Desired Requirements:
Experience in working in Pharma / Life Science industry strongly preferred Preferably agile experience in large data programs Scaled Agile (SAFe, LESS) experience is a plus.
Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network.
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Skills Desired
Agility, Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Building Construction, Business Analytics, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Media Campaigns, Sales, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Marketing, Waterfall Project Management
What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
