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Project Manager with Life Sciences Exp
Ref No.: 22-02265
Location: Iselin, New Jersey
Position Type:Contract

  • Hello

    Hope you are doing well. i have a immediate position for

    Role -- Project Manager with Life Sciences Exp

    NNIT/Novo Nordisk

    Plainsboro, NJ

    3 days a week - Hybrid

    No OPT

    Need to have very strong communication skills

    We are currently seeking a Project Manager - Life Sciences to join our team.

    Requirements:

  • Snowflake experience / application project a must
  • SAFe DevOps
  • Data analytic/development knowledge
  • Experience in Lean-Agile methodologies preferred
  • Experience with technical IT delivery as Developer, Tester or similar preferred
  • Elementary understanding of team dynamics and facilitation
  • Limited practical experience with Agile tools or techniques (e.g. shadowing another Scrum Master)
  • Budgeting and vendor management
  • Capable of handling a co-located team
  • Understanding of the Agile mindset and culture
  • Familiar with systems: Connex, Tableau, Informatic, Veeva, Snowflake, QlikView/Sense preferred
  • Certified Scrum Master preferred

  • Responsibilities:

  • Provide facilitation and feedback to ensure the Agile team is evaluating efficiency and taking corrective actions when improvement opportunities are identified
  • Provide collaborative leadership to Agile teams by Agile practices (such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe) and to help team embrace values and principles of Agile
  • Support the Product Owner and entire Agile team in their efforts to facilitate a healthy team dynamic within the Agile team and vis-à-vis other Agile teams
  • Work with stakeholders to understand needed future capabilitiesa nd work with the Agile team, People Leaders and others
  • Facilitate the team in adopting DevOps and built-in quality
  • Help identify IT enablers and facilitate prioritization and execution
  • Promote Agile quality practices
  • Provide overall leadership for the Agile team within the deliveries
  • Coach Agile team members incl. Product Owner and stakeholders to adopt Agile ways of working
  • Help ensure a healthy team environment – help resolve conflicts and drive motivation in the Agile team
  • Provide feedback on performance of Agile team members to People Leaders and cooperate on long term career planning
  • Work with the Agile team and other stakeholders to help solve impediments
  • Facilitate cross-team collaboration and dependencies
  • Apply organizational understanding and power to solve impediments quickly
  • Assist Agile team to manage progress via transparent backlog and board overviews and maintain relevant team metrics and follow-up on team measurements
  • Evaluate future backlog to ensure availability of people and budgets
  • Make sure that team norms are exhibited, including, but not limited to, priority driven workflow, realistic and executable iteration loading, and limited work-in-progress practices
  • Drive Agile teams, vendors and customers in the Agile way of working incl. Agile Delivery Model, Azure DevOps, Agile QMS and Agile Sourcing
  • Work with external stakeholders e.g. vendors, customers and employees to help them understand Agile way of working
  • Inspire and mentor other teams to become Agile
  • Participate in the relevant Communities of Practice
  • Drive the learning culture and Agile mindset
  • Share learnings and examples with the Agile Program Management Office (APMO)/Agile Transformation Office (ATO)
  • Model Agile way of working and continuously drive Agile improvements in corporation with other Scrum Masters
  • Evolve the professional Scrum Master capabilities
  • Establish and follow up on business cases and budgets
  • Drive vendor selection and negotiations in cooperation with procurement

  • *If the team is part of an Agile Release Train (ART), the Project Manager must work with the Release Train Engineer, Product Management, System Architect and other Agile teams (including Scrum Master and Product Owner) to ensure deliveries.

    Ability to act as an independent representative of the team- leading Scrum groups comprising of process engineering; manufacturing management; quality assurance; packaging; shipping; IT (from inside or partner organizations) and serve as backup to the team lead.

    The main skills of the person include:

  • Authentic and credible role model for the Agile methodology
  • Excellent communicator and facilitator of team dynamics
  • Change Ambassador
  • Able to navigate in a complex stakeholder environment
  • Excellent coaching skills
  • Budgeting and vendor management
  • Empathetic and strong relationship builder
  • Good at handling conflicts and building trust
  • A source of motivation and inspiration to others
  • Able to delegate and empower others to take action
  • Able to provide difficult feedback in a constructive way and to ensure a healthy, engaging and inclusive work environment