MI Scrum master

We re on a mission to change the future of
clinical research. At Perceptive, we help the
biopharmaceutical industry bring medical
treatments to the market, faster.
Our mission is to change the world
but to do this, we need people like you.

Apart from job satisfaction, we can offer you:

HEALTH:

- Medical plan for you and your dependents.

- Personal Accident Insurance

- Life Insurance

- Critical illness cover

WEALTH:

- Salary structure and Flexi basket

- Provident fund of 12%

- Gratuity scheme

YOURSELF: Internal growth and development programs trainings

Key Accountabilities:

Methods and tools

• Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards as per agile delivery.
• Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards.
• Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team level including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards.
• Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools.
• Identifies and recommends improvements.
• Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.

Knowledge management

• Organises knowledge assets and oversees the lifecycle of identifying, capturing, classifying, storing and maintaining assets.
• Facilitates sharing, collaboration and communication of knowledge.
• Monitors the use and impact of knowledge; interrogates existing knowledge content to identify issues, risks and opportunities.
• Implements specific knowledge management initiatives.

Release and Deployment

• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.
• Liaises with business and IT partners on release scheduling and communication of progress.
• Conducts post release reviews.
• Ensures release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment tools, techniques and processes (including automation).

Organizational capability development

• Develops and maintains a detailed knowledge of capability improvement approaches and techniques and selects appropriate approaches for the organisation.
• Contributes effectively to identifying new areas of capability improvement within the organisation which may be enhancements to skills, technology or processes.
• Carries out capability improvement assignments, such as maturity or performance assessments to identify strengths and weaknesses.
• Selects and prioritises improvement opportunities, generates buy-in and plans improvement activities justified by measurable organisational benefits.
• Mentors and supports localised continuous improvement activities.

Measurement

• Supports projects, functions or teams in the development of project and/or operational methods for measurement.
• Specifies base and derived measures which support agreed information needs. Identifies and prioritises appropriate measures, scales, and targets.
• Specifies how to collect and store the data for each required measure.
• Provides guidance on collection of data including automation.
• Designs reports and reporting formats.

Relationship management

• Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
• Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
• Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
• Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
• Facilitates business decision-making processes.
• Captures and disseminates technical and business information.

Consultancy

• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements, collecting data, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options, implementing if required.
• Collaborates with, and facilitates stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal consultancy agreements.

• Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of client personnel, by ensuring that proposed solutions are properly understood and appropriately exploited.

Business skills

• Demonstrates servant leadership.
• Understands and communicates industry developments, and the role and impact of technology.
• Manages and mitigates organisational risk.
• Balances the requirements of proposals with the broader needs of the organisation.
• Promotes a learning and growth culture in their area of accountability.
• Leads on compliance with relevant legislation and the need for services, products and working practices to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities.
• Identifies and endorses opportunities to adopt new technologies and digital services.
• Creatively applies a wide range of innovative and/or management principles to realise business benefits aligned to the organisational strategy.
• Communicates authoritatively at all levels across the organisation to both technical and non-technical audiences articulating business objectives.
• Learning and professional development takes the initiative to advance own skills and leads the development of skills required in their area of accountability.
• Security, privacy and ethics takes a leading role in promoting and ensuring appropriate working practices and culture throughout own area of accountability and collectively in the organisation.

Other

• Carryout any other reasonable duties as requested.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning
• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention to detail
• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment
• Demonstrable ability to apply critical thinking to problems and tasks
• Builds and maintains an in-depth knowledge of Project Management practices within the life sciences industry and how they affect customers adopting our products
• Ability to define and implement appropriate strategies
• Ability to identify and implement process improvements
• Proactively participates in skills improvement training and encourages their teams to participate
• Maintains an up-to-date awareness of trends, tools, technology, techniques and processes that affect technology within the Life sciences domain
• A self-starter and able to work under own initiative

Knowledge and Experience:

• Solid professional experience in the same or very similar role
• Proven working experience of project management/product delivery leveraging Agile methodologies
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile and/or other development methodologies (certifications, desirable)
• Demonstrable experience and success driving Agile maturity and innovation across teams to deliver value
• Experience using tools to communicate progress to Stakeholders
• Experience of working in and knowledge of the life sciences and regulatory sectors

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in a technical discipline (Maths, Science, Engineering, Computing, etc.) or a related study, or equivalent project-related experience
• English: Fluent

Come as you are.

Were proud to be a Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.