Agile Facilitator

Site Name: Upper Providence, Poznan, Stevenage

Posted Date: Apr 4 2023

Come join us as we supercharge GSK's data capability

At GSK we are building a best-in-class data and prediction powered team that is ambitious for patients.

Scientific Digital and Tech's goal is to power the discovery, development and supply of medicines and vaccines to patients. This means new tools to discover new medicines and vaccines, predictive capability for pre-clinical research, accelerated CMC and supply chain and an improved day-to-day laboratory experience for our scientists. Our Digital & Tech solutions will automate workflows and speed up decisions; freeing hands and releasing minds to focus on science.

As R&D enters a new era of data driven science, we are building a data engineering capability to ensure we have high quality data captured with context and aligned data models, so that the data is useable and reusable for a variety of use cases.

GSK R&D and Digital and Tech's collective goal is to deliver business impact, including the acceleration of the discovery and development of medicines and vaccines to patients. The R&D Digital and Tech remit has expanded over the past 2 years, and to position GSK for the future, The change will strengthen R&D Tech, to provide more strategic impact, focus, accountability, and improved decision making in the use of Digital, Data and Analytics (DDA) to strengthen the pipeline.

The Scientific Digital and Tech organization part of R&D Digital & Tech is an integrated family that powers the GSK R&D discovery, manufacture, and supply of new medicines and vaccines to patients. It focuses on optimizing CMC, informing Vaccine and Medicine design, and delivering a competitive, modern laboratory experience.

The Scientific Data Engineering team has a clear remit to build the required architecture, data strategy and implement an engineering approach. The Agile Facilitator will be a key member of the Scientific Data Engineering team and will be crucial in guiding development teams, by utilizing a solid skill set and knowledge of project management and agile methodologies, to ensure they organize and execute demand at pace.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following...

• Act as a servant leader with oversight of all activities across several product teams.
• Build a close relationship with Agile Facilitators, Product Owners, and Business Owners to understand the challenges and ensuring high efficiency by removing impediments or assisting the team in doing so.
• Establish a trusting and safe team environment with a focus on problem solving.
• Foster a "learn by doing" team culture and drive relentless improvement.
• Understands both scrum and Kanban ways of working.
• Knows when to be a servant leader, when to coach and when to drive.
• Self-directed Learner

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• 3+ years' experience as a Scrum Master utilizing both Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• 1+ years' experience in a technical position as a database developer or data architect
• 1+ years' experience in coaching a team in using agile.
• 1+ years' experience as a scrum master for more than one team at a time

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related bachelor's degree (Engineering, Information Technology, etc.)
• Experience working in a hybrid environment picking the best aspects of both agile and waterfall implementations.
• Excellent relationship management, strong influencing, and communication skill
• Relevant hands-on experience working in a SAFe framework
• SCRUM or SAFe certifications are a plus, but not required

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Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Operating at pace and agile decision-making - using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
• Sustaining energy and well-being.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
• Budgeting and cost-consciousness

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 impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We're committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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