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AGILE lead, Strategic External Development

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Are you looking for an opportunity to help build and enable an agile, inclusive organization that successfully develops transformative medicines and enables GSK deliver on its mission to positively impact the health of millions of patients. If so, this AGILE lead role in a rapidly growing, empowered, innovative and agile Strategic External Development [SED] organization could be an ideal opportunity to explore. Our GSK culture of being Ambitious for Patients, Accountable for Impact and Doing the right thing are foundational for how, together, we will get Ahead Together and accelerate our performance.

In your AGILE lead role within our Process Excellence team, you will contribute to the optimisation and simplification of SED’s processes, develop our people’s capability to leverage their agile mindset and enable it to meet its ambition to outperform itself in the development of life-changing medicines.

These responsibilities include the following

This role will provide you the opportunity to leverage your Agile lead skills while gaining knowledge of biopharma product development and drive efficiencies for delivery of medicines to patients.

• Build new processes based on agile working and use Agile/Lean methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting Scrum teams to follow Agile values, principles, and practices.
• Coach selected teams from fixed mindset to growth mindset
• Coordinate various sprints to secure and realise on-line value delivery to SED
• Facilitate the change that will be needed throughout the organisation
• Setup the tools and technologies related to daily team interactions (including kanban boards, backlog management, product management etc.)
• Identify and implement system and process improvements based on performance metrics and stakeholder feedback.

Why you?

We are looking for a seasoned Agile practitioner who has:

• Critical thinking skills to identify and solve problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for effectively interfacing with all levels of management and departments within the company
• Strong organizational skills in order to maintain a high level of productivity and setting priorities in order to complete assignments in a timely manner.
• Servant leadership with soft power to influence team behaviours.
• Passionate to develop the Agile Mindset without boundaries
• Exhibits high initiative, strong drive and follow-through.

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelors with at least 7 years of industry experience OR Masters with at least 5 years of experience OR PhD with at least 3 years of experience
• Min 3 years’ experience in Agile Management, Certified SCRUM master, Kanban Management Professional, Agile at Scale or Lean Enterprise experience
• Min 3 years’ Experience with 1 or more management methodologies (e.g. Change Management, Scrum, Design Thinking, Six Sigma, others)
• Min 3 years’ experience with agile methodology, techniques, and frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, to deliver solutions
• Min 3 years’ multi-year experience in being a Scrum Master for multiple teams
• Min 3 years’ experience with managing internal and external teams, and demonstrable ability to work effectively across the matrix and at all levels with an organisation.

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

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  Strong communication and facilitation skills, interpersonal and organizational skills, and project team working skills
• Ability to develop timelines, prioritize and handle multiple tasks to ensure on time delivery.
• Certification as Scrum Master (CSM/ PSM1), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), SAFe® or other Agile relevant certifications.
• Depth & breadth of understanding in writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to influence, motivate and gain commitment without direct authority.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.

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Why GSK?

We’re combining the power of genetic and genomic insights into what causes disease, with the speed and scale of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to make better predictions about who a treatment might work for, and why. We believe this powerful combination of data and technology holds the key to fundamentally transforming medical discovery for the better, improving R&D success rates and shaping how even the most challenging diseases, like neurological conditions and cancer, can be both prevented and treated.

In 2021 we delivered four major product approvals: Cabenuva for HIV, Jemperli for endometrial cancer, Xevudy for COVID-19 and Apretude, our new long-acting medicine for HIV prevention.

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Our approach to R&D

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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