Senior Associate, Scrum Master

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Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
We’re in relentless pursuit of breakthroughs that change patients’ lives.
The Role
The Senior Associate, Scrum Master will facilitate agile development for industrialized assets within Pfizer's Data Science Industrialization team. Responsibilities include aligning teams with sprint goals, coaching agile pods, and promoting continuous improvement activities to enhance productivity. Key tasks involve communication with leadership about impediments, backlog maintenance, and collaboration within teams.
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Do you want to make an impact on patient health around the world? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment that brings together scientific, clinical and commercial domains through engineering, data science, and analytics? Then join Pfizer Digital's Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Analytics organization (AIDA) where you can leverage cutting-edge technology to inform critical business decisions and improve customer experiences for our patients and physicians. Our collection of engineering, data science, and analytics professionals are at the forefront of Pfizer's transformation into a digitally driven organization leveraging data science and advanced analytics to change patient's lives. The Industrialization team within Enterprise Data Science and Advanced Analytics leads the scaling of data and insights capabilities - critical drivers and enablers of Pfizer's digital transformation.
As a Data Science Industrialization Scrum Master, you will be part of the Data Science Industrialization team charged with building and maintaining data science and AI industrialized asset products that power key business applications. You will be a key proponent and coach of Agile practices and values, using these to help drive forward the program of digital transformation and industrialization that powers Pfizer's customer-oriented vision.
Role Responsibilities

  • Work with product leads to align teams with industrialized assets' vision, sprint goals, and release objectives
  • Facilitate agile development for industrialized assets and coach multiple agile delivery pods
  • Create an environment of collaboration within the agile pods that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
  • Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach agile pod team members to conduct continuous improvements
  • Communicate impediments to leadership, clear impediments for the agile pods
  • Support product leads in creation and maintenance of the industrialized assets backlog


Qualifications
Must-Have

  • Bachelor's degree with major or minor in information management, information systems, or similar field
  • 3+ years of work experience with Agile and Scrum frameworks and their application in product development and delivery organization
  • 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
  • Proficient with project management and agile software applications, MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
  • 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
  • Strong English communication skills (written & verbal)


Nice-to-Have

  • Scrum Master certification
  • Knowledge of life science industry technology strategies
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and drive business decisions with information and make appropriate trade-off decisions
  • Strong attention to detail including precise and effective stakeholder communications and proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously


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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