Associate Product Management Director – IT Agile Pmo

Associate Product Management Director – IT Agile Pmo

Requirements

• 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)
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Provide direction to other individuals, consultants or third-party partners
• Perform other duties, as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, desired