Agile Delivery Manager
At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe.
Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our offices are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.
AstraZeneca believes in a culture of lifelong learning. To support your professional growth, we offer wide-ranging opportunities for learning and development.
Our position:
Do you want to be part of a high-performing team that can make a real difference at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies? We are bringing together a team of experienced project managers who go beyond just “managing the plan” and provide project leadership and insights to the business customers. AstraZeneca is building an internal consulting capability in our Global Business Services (GBS) group focused on delivering high-quality project management capabilities to our enterprise organization.
Our vision is to build a global, enterprise project services team that delivers business outcomes by responding to the ongoing internal business demand for strong project management skillsets and capabilities across the company. You will work closely with our businesses as a project expert and trusted advisor. We set the highest quality standards, collaborate, and work hard to support our business partners.
You will work within the GBS Project Services team to define and deliver the service quality, whilst also working with the business as a project thought leader, responding to their demand for project support. With a strong understanding of change management and excellent communication skills, you will work effectively with stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.
About Global Business Services:
In Global Business Services (GBS) we dare to change the way we work – we are brave, resilient and take smart risks with a focus on simplifying the way we work. Through our global scale and diverse services, we look to drive value through our innovation and expertise. This requires a team who see no boundaries, can collaborate, challenges the norm, feels empowered, and stays motivated and engaged.
In our role as a global business services group, we are passionate about working smarter, to free up time, free up money, protect value and provide new capabilities to the enterprise – all to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines.
In GBS Productivity and Project Services, we support this ambition by being trusted partners for delivery excellence and building long-term capabilities to efficiently drive internal business projects. This is where you could come in. Working in Productivity and Project Services is fast-paced, dynamic and challenging. We are looking for people who want to seize the opportunity to take an exciting step in their personal development journey, leverage their own experience as a thought leader in project management and play a fundamental part of delivering a world-class organisation.
Assignment Specifics:
This role is part of the US Oncology Business Unit and is dedicated to ensuring orchestration of multiple Agile teams towards coordinated delivery for all products in a specific category of our US OBU Service Catalogue including products such as Data Management, Analytical, and Omnichannel.
Typical Accountabilities
As an Agile Delivery Manager, you will guide and support an agile release train (ART) across many scrum teams that support the assigned workstream. Collaborate closely with Product Owners & Leads, Program Managers, Agile team leads, and stakeholders to prioritize and manage the product backlog.
This role will work under the direction of the Agile Transformation Lead, to help establish and implement systems and processes that will drive consistency, ways of working, seamless execution of product innovation and delivery.
You will lead and facilitate team level ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives) that support the delivery of epics. Your core responsibilities will be enabling teams as a true servant leader to ensure that goals are met by the teams and the ART.
You will improve ART performance by identifying resolution of program impediments and being a change agent with continuous improvement.
Work cross functionally within the US Oncology Business to coordinate across all projects and franchise requests efficiently triage and assure defining Agile/Jira processes (scheduling, Kanban board, etc).
Responsible for integrating strategic and tactical input from diverse internal partners as applicable to the product
Mentor and coach team members on Agile principles and practices, leveraging deep insights gained from prior experiences. Champion innovation and best practices within the team.
Foster a culture of trust, transparency, and accountability.
Utilize Agile metrics and tools to track and report on team progress; derive actionable insights and drive continuous improvement.
Act to optimize and manage internal stakeholder relationships, provide guidance and support to the internal functions and product leads, while empowering them to take ownership of their work and achieve their goals.
Additional accountabilities:
Deliver excellent customer service, effective communication, professionalism, and a commitment to exceeding expectations.
Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies to bring value to internal customers.
Provide coaching and mentoring to other team members.
Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
Proven ability to lead Scrum teams for complex deliveries.
Facilitation of all the team's meetings and ceremonies using SAFe Framework.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and a self-starter.
Removes roadblocks, many of which will be beyond the team's authority or will require support from other teams.
Continuous improvement mindset and highlights opportunities to improve efficiency of scrum teams.
Ability to coaches and mentor the team on agile ways of working.
Management of dependencies internal and external to scrum team.
Raises risks and blockers when necessary to appropriate team members / leadership.
Experience working closely with Business stakeholders (Product Owner) to understand and align on backlog priorities.
Experience with calculating team capacity, analyzing and adjusting learnings from previous sprints.
Experience managing more than one scrum team (2 or more)
Extensive understanding of agile methodology, techniques, frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, or Kanban) and agile tools (Jira and Confluence).
Proficiency in Jira and Confluence with the ability to customize workflows and drive tool adoption.
Participated in a PI event.
Advanced certifications such as Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or SAFe Program Consultant (SPC).
Minimum of 5-7 years of experience as a Scrum Master in Agile teams preferably in a regulated industries and highly matrixed organizations such as Pharma, with a proven track record of success.
Minimum of 5-7 years of experience as a Project/Program manager in a Non-Agile environment. Comfort delivering through an Agile transformation.
In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), with a demonstrated ability to tailor and apply them effectively in various contexts.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes of issues and implement effective solutions.
Proven ability to develop and scale Agile practices for large organizations, including experience with frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), or Disciplined Agile (DA).
Bachelor’s degree
Desirable
Project Management Certification
Management Consulting experience
Experience working with distributed or remote teams across different time zones and cultural backgrounds.
Deep understanding of Agile engineering practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Deployment (CD).
Experience in a sales and marketing pharma/Medtech/Biopharma commercial environment
Knowledge of data stack and martech.
Data and analytics business acumen
WHY JOIN US?
At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.
Help to shape our journey towards becoming a tech-enabled enterprise. Encouraged to look to the future, think strategically and innovate, we influence progress today. We are constantly introducing new solutions and technology through on our quest to grow through innovation. We love it here because put simply, we make a meaningful impact.
Technology at AstraZeneca is a home for purposeful disruptors. Apply now to learn more about this exciting opportunity with a world-renowned pharmaceutical brand!
SO, WHAT’S NEXT?
To be considered for this exciting opportunity, please complete the full application on our website at your earliest convenience – it is the only way that our Recruiter and Hiring Manager can know that you feel well qualified for this opportunity. If you know someone who would be a great fit, please share this posting with them.
Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head office is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects.
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