Manager, Senior Scrum Master

ROLE SUMMARY
Do you want to make a global impact on patient health? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment that integrates scientific, clinical, and commercial domains through engineering, data science, and AI? Join Pfizer Digital's Commercial Creation Center & CDI organization (C4) to leverage cutting-edge technology for critical business decisions and enhance customer experiences for colleagues, patients, and physicians. Our team of engineering, data science, and AI professionals is at the forefront of Pfizer's transformation into a digitally driven organization, using data science and AI to change patients' lives, leading process and engineering innovations to advance AI and data science applications from prototypes and MVPs to full production.
As a Manager, Senior Scrum Master, you will be part of the Commercial Analytics AI Solutions and Engineering team charged with the development of an array of products that generalize point solutions into analytic and AI systems to simplify and fuel insight generation. You will be a key proponent and coach of Agile practices and values, using these to help drive forward AI-driven transformation that powers Pfizer's customer-oriented vision.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Know Agile best practices and trains/provides guidance on implementation, and able to propose and enhance new best practices.
• Coach Product Owners, helping them create clear and concise Product Backlog Items, ensuring they know how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Understand the functional/technical requirements for successful outcomes and provide leadership to the functional/technical team, helping them to solve some of the more complex challenges while fostering a collaborative, knowledge sharing environment.
• Plan scrum implementations effectively, ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team.
• Lead and coordinate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives on cross functional cross regional teams.
• Establish an environment where the Scrum team can be as effective as possible, addressing behaviors and team dynamics, and ensuring a good relationship between the scrum team, product owner and related stakeholders.
• Ability to recognize and remove roadblocks for the team.
• Coach team on SDLC processes and ensure the processes are followed.
• Lean/Agile leader - Helps the team embrace agile core values, adopt and apply those principles, and implementation practices.
• Guide more junior team members on Agile Delivery.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree with major or minor in information management, information systems, or similar field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a scrum master, working with functional/technical teams of contract or colleague resources.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to establish relationships, influence outcomes, and deliver effective presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Excellent skills in planning, analysis, oral and written communication, consensus building, facilitation, negotiation, and the ability to readily learn new business areas.
• Proven capability leading projects in an Agile/DevOps environment.
• Sound understanding of Agile scaling frameworks, and various other Agile frameworks such as Kanban and SAFe in leveraging the right technique at the right time.
• Demonstrated success in coaching multiple agile project teams (pods) across products.
• Experience with task management tools (e.g. JIRA) and knowledge management tools (e.g. Confluence).
• Highly self-motivated to deliver both independently and with strong team collaboration.
• Ability to creatively take on new challenges and work outside comfort zone.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Scrum Master certification.
• Knowledge of life science industry technology strategies and trends.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and drive business decisions with information and make appropriate trade-off decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to oversee tasks requiring attention to detail, ensuring alignment with business goals and proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously.

Please apply by sending your CV in English.
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Purpose
Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.
Digital Transformation Strategy
One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.
Flexibility
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let's start the conversation!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms - allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.
Disability Inclusion
Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!
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