Job Description

The Position

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the Product team (Product Manager, Release Train Engineer, Product Owner(s), Developers, Business Analysts, technical resources, and other stakeholders)
• Act as a subject matter expert and coach to the team in Agile methodology, tool usage and decision-making process following the proper guidelines
• Organize, manage and facilitate the scrum process and ceremonies; daily stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, grooming and planning meetings, etc.
• Facilitate the flow of information within the squad to drive ownership and empowerment
• Facilitate scrum events and ceremonies, coach the team on the value and purpose of these events
• Facilitate sprint reviews/deployment retrospectives, identify areas for improvement and turn them into action items
• Exhibit servant leadership behavior toward the product squad teams and the wider organization
• Build and drive cross-squad/team engagement and collaboration
• Resolves team impediments with the other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the product-centric delivery approach in the organization
• Assist in tracking the execution of features and capabilities and assist with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by teams and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary
• Coach and inspire leaders and teams in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets, help manage risks and dependencies, escalate and track impediments and provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks

Must Haves:

• University degree in Business Administration, Computer Sciences or any related field
• Scrum Certification or similar
• Min. 5+ years recent experience as Scrum Master within a matrix organization and an agile environment
• Min. 5+ years of experience as Project Manager of global IT Projects, at least strong experience with project methodology
• Solid background and experience in the Regulated industry, preferably the pharmaceutical industry
• First hands-on Coaching experience with Agile Teams
• English fluent, spoken and written

Soft Skills:

• Ability to lead and support within an agile environment and within the tasks and responsibilities
• Exhibits servant Leadership style and experience
• Very strong communication and presentation skills with senior stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence and train different teams, internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborative, listens and cultivates alignment
• Finds ways to work efficiently and effectively across the workstreams and is able to connect the dots across

Nice to Haves:

• SAFe experience or Certification
• Additional Languages (e.g German)
• CSV/GxP knowledge

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we\xe2\x80\x99ve become one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organisations located in Kuala Lumpur provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources) and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the APAC region. Today Roche employs altogether around 1100 employees in Malaysia.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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