Project Manager

Job Description

About the position

Are you ready for an exciting role supporting an Agile mindset and way of working in the Power Products organization ?

The International HUB has an opportunity for a Scrum Master in its Bangalore location to support squads working on offers leading the market on Energy Management.

We started our Agile transformation nearly 2 years ago, and we want to continue to improve it. Scrum Masters are key leadership positions in a global organization and part of the Agile Excellence Chapter.

The squads are located in India but require many interactions with Europe and other countries.

JOB SUMMARY

The primary responsibility of this role is to lead the squads to meet their goals :

–          for customer satisfaction through a robust customer feedback loop

–          quality

–          time to market

–          development costs

–          product costs

but as well to support the Product Owner and the squad members in the Agile transition to common alignment, self-organization, fostering communication, encouraging adaptation and flexibility to changes.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

What she/he will do:

• Guide the Squads focusing on creating high value releases
• Partner with Product Owner to ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Be the key facilitator and primarily responsible for facilitation of Squads events
• Drive continuous improvement by coaching Squad members in Agile methodologies to maximize efficiency and self-improvement, and drive change management.
• Manage inter-dependencies between squads, identify risks and opportunities for execution and business success.
• Identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to Squads impediments
• master Agile processes and fine tune them to Squad needs (e.g., mixing Scrum & Kanban to manage maintenance & development) while providing tools and methodologies to accelerate Squad delivery
• Lead animation of a multidiscipline cross functional squad — Design & Engineering, Industrialization, Purchasing, Quality, Manufacturing plants, Launch.

But also :

• Follow-up the budget of the Squads
• Collaborate to the agile transformation of the squad

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree

8+ years of work experience

3 years of product or project development experience would be advantageous

Strong facilitation techniques

Ability to build and lead Squads in a matrix

Promotes Agile values and principles

Outstanding communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills

Knowledge of an Agile Framework  (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), and knowledge of at Agile at Scale frameworks (i.e. SAFe, Scrum at Scale)

Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery Squads

Strong organization, communication, and interpersonal skills. Able to communicate priorities. Interaction with senior leadership.

Experience in one or more of the cross functional disciplines for New product development lifecycle (Design, Test , Quality, Industrialization etc.)