Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Understand key business objectives and strategy, communicate to the team in partnership with GBPOs
- Bridge the gap between conceptualizing and actioning project ideas
- Create and onboard project teams and integrating them into DDIT OPS Supply Chain by providing them with a clear vision of the product
- Monitors project progress, provides timely feedback to collaborators
- Facilitate Scrum Collaborations, Coordinate and/or facilitate story mapping, sprint/release planning meetings, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives and demo sessions
- Enable our team to meet sprint goals by helping to address potential impediments
- Partner with Product Owners to support agile projects, develop and prioritize the backlog
- Plans schedule for project deliverables and roadmap
- Develop and monitors agile critical metrics for the team
- Evaluate teams’ performance in agile, provide insight into progress of team velocity and sprint/release activities
- Motivate and inspire team members and improve their potential
- Be Agile process ambassador, foster and coach the team for adoption of Agile tools and practices
- Support Agile maturity and Innovation approaches across teams to improve the methodologies’ efficiency
- Knowledgeable on agile methodologies such as XP, Lean and Kanban, their strengths, weaknesses and how they can be used together with scrum
- Support deployment process - through helping with testing, business analysis process
Key performance indicators:
- Team velocity, lead time, cycle time, and throughput.
- Time to market -Sprint burn-down and release burn-up -Customer and team satisfaction.
- Defect escape rate
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- 5 years or more experience working as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role is preferred, with a good understanding of software development processes and project management.
- Overall, 10 years or more IT experience.
- Good understanding and experience working with Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum and Kanban, and a deep understanding of Agile values, principles, and ceremonies.
- Excellent leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills to cultivate collaboration, handle group dynamics, and facilitate decision-making within the team.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate sophisticated concepts and interact with collaborators at various levels.
- Good understanding on Project management tools like Devops/TFS/Jira
- A growth mindset and enjoys continuous learning and adapt well to new Agile practices, emerging technologies, and industry trends.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, capable of identifying and resolving obstacles that hinder the team's progress.
- Exposure to Supply Chain Fundamentals.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent
Certifications:
- Possess a valid certification among “CSM, ACSM, CSPO, Safe Agile, PSM”
- Project management certifications in PMP, Certification in IT project management (CITPM) or Prince2
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
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Accessibility and accommodation
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to diversityandincl.india@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message
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