Scrum Master for Life Sciences

Do you have experience with delivering projects to pharma or life sciences customers and do you feel confident in the area of solution development and implementation within Agile ways of working?

Join our Project Management team and help us make an impact as solution provider for big pharmaceutical companies across Europe.

What can you expect in the Scrum Master role?

You will manage IT application analysis, development, implementation, and migration projects for our life science customers. You may run several projects at the same time - most of our projects are application upgrades and migrations. You will deliver the projects together with our internal Application Support teams located in different global NNIT offices primarily following an Agile methodology.

Our projects are primarily run by the customer in a SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) setup. This means implementation of Minimal Viable Products (MVP) through Program Increments.

Your usual work will consist of:

• Planning and facilitation of agenda at the Agile ceremonies;
• Providing coaching and mentoring in the agile mindset and execution process to the team if needed;
• Ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the agile processes and practices
• Facilitate sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives, keeping the team focused and ensuring that everyone can contribute;
• Establishing an environment where the team can be effective;
• Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions;
• Driving, facilitating and executing on Team Backlog;
• Driving, facilitating and executing Iteration Planning;
• Driving, facilitating and executing Iteration Review and Retrospective;
• Resolve or escalate impediments raised by the team;
• Establishing and continuous updates of the Iteration board;
• Ensuring reporting and transparency of the Teams progress;
• Coordination with Product Owner to manage the backlog and guide the team;
• Coordination with Release Train Engineer if part of an Agile Release Train;
• Ensure compliance with agreed standards, e.g. NNIT Quality Management System when facilitating definition of Ready and Definition of Done

If acting as an Agile Lead for software development or implementation projects the Scrum Master is expected to:

• Deliver business value within the agreed schedule, budget and quality as agreed in the customer contract;
• Meet the expectations from NNIT regarding profit margins, customer and employee satisfaction;
• Allocate resources according to the agreed deliverables;
• Preparation and approval of the plan including activities not managed on the Iteration Board;
• Management of the project economy, including contract management, budgeting, invoicing and time registration;
• Execute decisions from StC, internal StC or Epic Owners dependent of setup;
• Management of sub-contractors if required to fulfil the customer contract.

You will join our Project Management team

You will become part of the Solutions global project management team. You will have approximately 45 colleagues in the Project Management team across NNIT - we emphasize teamwork and an open and honest communication approach. We encourage all Project Managers to provide and get sparring within the project management community and we try our best to create a professional work environment with social activities.

If you can relate to some of those requirements:

• 2-3 years of project management experience with delivering applications/software for Life Sciences industry;
• 2-3 years of experience as a Scrum Master within the Life Science Area;
• Change management experience and the ability to take on the role as an Agile Coach if required;
• Experience with SAFe Agile framework for scaling Agile;
• Knowledge or use of Agile tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira;
• Experience and certification with Agile methodology;
• Strong Project Management toolbox;
• Experience working with pharma companies and delivering according to GxP requirements;
• Consultancy/Advisory experience within Pharma or Life Science;
• You work independently with a large personal drive while also securing project results through personal leadership;
• Knowledge and experience in using all major Project Management disciplines with possible knowledge of Prince2 and/or PMI-Standard (certification is not a requirement, but we urge our PMs to be certified within a short timeframe);
• Fluent English, written and spoken;

Then we are looking for someone like you!