Scrum Master - Pharma/Life Science

Role & responsibilities

Scrum master should be able to create the environment for a team to deliver value, be highly independent, confident in their abilities and flexible enough to adapt to an evolving landscape.

• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum practice, and guidelines.
• Works with

  Multiple Scrum Teams

  , as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.
• Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Adept at

  refinement, story splitting, estimation, velocity, retrospection

  , and other Scrum techniques.
• Planning and

  problem-solving

  involving product management and delivery teams.
• Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information on team performance and progress using key Agile metrics.
• Working with the Product Owner to align team with product vision and sprint goals and participate in product backlog preparation activities.

• Mitigate risks

  and communicate to leaders using best practices in Agile.
• Instill

  continuous improvement activities

  to reduce waste and increase productivity.
• Leverage skills from coaching, facilitation, conflict resolution and more to guide teams to embrace Agile mindset.
• Handle the escalations and conflict within the project team.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed clients.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills.

Preferred candidate profile

• 6-9 years of experience as a Scrum Master
• Life sciences/Pharma domain experience is a must
• Proven experience managing technology transformation, digital health, lab systems (e.g., LIMS, ELN), clinical systems (e.g., CTMS), manufacturing systems or similar.
• Strong understanding of regulatory environments and compliance standards (FDA, GxP, CSV, etc.).
• Good understanding of industry regulations such as GxP, CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.
• Hands on experience as Scrum Master/ Agile Project Manager for at least for 3-4 years.
• Hands on experience in

  Software Life Cycle (SDLC),

  waterfall, hybrid and agile projects
• Experience in using

  Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean Agile

  frameworks.
• Experience in Project Management tools such as

  JIRA, ADO

  etc.
• SAFe/ CSM / PSM equivalent certification.
• Bachelors in Engineering / MBA.
• PMP certification, Agile or SAFe certification preferred.
• The experience in applying a wide variety of well-documented patterns and techniques to enhance the Scrum approach (e.g.

  Estimation Techniques, progress visualization techniques, retrospective formats, approaches for handling bugs

  , etc.).
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills