Delivery Manager - RDT Global Products & GPS

Description

The global digital technology team builds digital capabilities across the company, with business-minded technologists working on AI, data and scalable technology to support the company's healthcare work.

This is a delivery leadership role, mainly as Solution Train Engineer (STE) and Release Train Engineer (RTE), with the option to work as a Program Manager, Service Delivery Manager or Agile Coach when the organization needs it.

The company has more than 100,000 employees worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Set the scope for complex, high-impact initiatives and give direction on scope strategy, frameworks and practice.
• Manage significant scope changes so strategic direction holds and disruption stays low, and find ways to make scope processes work better.
• Lead the analysis of difficult delivery problems that cross team and department lines, and help decide how to respond.
• Own delivery on major initiatives, shape the strategic solution and reach agreement through clear persuasion and facilitation.
• Spot strategic risks and opportunities early, and coach colleagues on solving problems.
• Identify key stakeholders, including senior management, map complex stakeholder networks, and build and run engagement and communication plans.
• Shape stakeholder decisions on delivery, resolve conflicts and build working relationships across the organization.
• Lead across major products in a product line or domain, embed Agile practice, drive organizational change and push innovation.
• Assess strategic solution options and propose improvements that move strategic objectives forward.
• Run complex projects, services and multi-team value streams across domains, including end-to-end execution, Program Increment (PI) planning and sync cadences for large programs.
• Work through unclear delivery requirements and put delivery frameworks in place across complicated stakeholder and technical landscapes.
• Use deep knowledge of pharmaceutical and life sciences markets to shape delivery strategy, lead adoption of SAFe and other delivery practices, and improve efficiency, quality and time to market.

Requirements

• More than 10 years of hands-on RTE and STE work, coordinating multi-team Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains in complex enterprise settings.
• A record of working in senior delivery roles such as Program Manager, STE, RTE or Agile Coach, and running large, mission-critical programs to success.
• Solid experience embedding Agile practice, driving continuous improvement and leading change across product lines or multi-discipline areas.
• A proven ability to build lasting relationships with senior executives, product owners, architects and cross-functional teams.
• Deep working knowledge of SAFe, Lean governance, dependency mapping and modern software delivery methods.
• Understanding of GxP, CSV and FDA regulations, and the ability to meet them within an Agile delivery framework.
• Solid business knowledge and market awareness, with the ability to turn strategy into clear execution roadmaps.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking skills to clear systemic bottlenecks, cross-boundary dependencies and technical conflicts.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture, the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) and release governance across cloud and enterprise platforms.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and negotiation skills, with the ability to build consensus and resolve conflict.
• A track record of coaching and mentoring junior delivery managers, Scrum Masters and engineers.
• Strongly preferred: experience in the pharmaceutical or life sciences industry.
• Highly desirable: experience with enterprise CRM platforms such as Veeva, Salesforce Health Cloud, SAP CRM or Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Preferred: relevant certifications such as SAFe RTE, SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC), SAFe Program Consultant, PMP or equivalent.

Conditions

Hybrid work: the company asks employees to be in the office on average two days per week, and office days may change with business needs such as workshops, conferences, town halls, team meetings and other joint events.

Salary range for the primary location, Warsaw Grafit: 228,900.00 to 425,100.00 PLN. Final pay depends on skills, experience, qualifications and location.

For Poland, the salary is 19,075 to 35,425 PLN gross, set by the employment contract.

The role may include a discretionary annual bonus with a 20% target, based on individual and company performance.

The job is advertised in several locations. Where pay transparency rules apply to another location, the Talent Acquisition Partner will share local pay details before the business interview.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Benefits

• These benefits apply to Poland only.
• Annual performance bonus.
• Training budget for courses, certifications, conferences and alternative career paths.
• Recharge Fridays, with 2 Fridays off per quarter available.
• Take Time program: up to 3 months of leave for any purpose.
• Vacation subsidy.
• Flex Location: work from different places in the world for set periods.
• Take Time for Charity: up to 2 weeks of extra paid leave for a charity of your choice.
• Private healthcare (LuxMed packages), group life insurance (UNUM) and Multisport.
• Contributions toward buying company shares.
• Annual sales of company laptops and cars, and more.