Associate Product Management Director – IT Agile PMO

We are seeking an experienced Agile Lead and Program/Project Manager to drive the evolution of agile maturity across our IT organization to achieve continuous value delivery and increase agility to rapidly respond to customer needs.   This role is instrumental in developing and executing strategies to foster agile best practices and ways of working, coaching and mentoring teams, and ensuring continuous improvement in agile adoption.  Additionally, this role may serve as a Scrum Master or Product Owner to help teams to establish and sustain agile practices.  On occasion, this role may also serve as a program/project manager to lead initiatives and ensure successful delivery. 

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Agile Coaching and Transformation

• Develop and implement strategy to enhance agile maturity across IT, aligned with organizational goals and ongoing product transformation efforts
• Develop a fit for purpose agile delivery framework and guidelines for good agile practices
• Provide coaching, mentoring and training to teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, delivery teams, and leadership on agile principles, frameworks, tools, and best practices
• Develop and facilitate an agile maturity assessment process to help teams establish a baseline of current agility state and identify potential opportunities to improve
• Guide teams to overcome agile adoption challenges, facilitate agile mindset shifts, and promote agile values
• Optimize configuration of and provide training on effective use of Jira and other agile tools to delivery teams
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement to enhance agile adoption and delivery
• Lead and organize an agile community of practice to promote knowledge sharing, learning and adoption
• Collaborate with organizational leadership and product leaders to define and track KPIs and agile transformation metrics, ensuring measurable outcomes

Scrum Master and Project Management

• Act as a product owner or scrum master to help teams establish good agile practices, as needed
• Facilitate agile ceremonies
• Assist product owners with backlog management and sprint planning
• Remove impediments for the team
• Ensure team members effectively implement agile frameworks and good agile practices
• Act as a program/project manager to lead and manage initiatives and ensure alignment with successful delivery, as needed
• Define, facilitate and track initiative scope, activities, milestones, risks and dependencies
• Provide transparent and timely communications to relevant stakeholders
• Perform other duties, as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide direction to other individuals, consultants or third-party partners (This needs to be moved under duties and responsibilities section)
• No supervisory responsibilities.  In the future, this role may supervise and assist with recruiting project management or scrum master consultants.  Is the future 6 months to 1 year from now or beyond or unknow?

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Education:

• Bachelors degree in related discipline + eleven years of related experience; or 
• Masters degree in related discipline and nine years of related experience; or 
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Agile certifications (ICP-ACC, PMI-ACP, PSM, CSM, CSP-SM, CSPO)

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in agile coaching, agile transformation, or agile leadership roles
• 7+ years hands-on experience acting as a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Project Manager
• Experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, desired

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Successful track record of agile coaching and training teams with varying levels of agile maturity
• Comprehensive understanding and mastery of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), principles and skills
• Advanced knowledge of JIRA/Confluence configuration and reporting (can we make this more generic and change to “ticketing system?”)
• Intermediate knowledge of product management and product mindset
• Excellent facilitation, stakeholder management and change management skills
• Exceptional leadership skills with an ability to develop and communicate a strategic vision, inspire and motivate team members
• Advanced writing, presentation, and verbal communication skills
• Advanced active listening and interpersonal skills
• Strong influencing without authority skills to inspire others to achieve desire