Agile Delivery Lead

Agile Delivery Lead

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

About the job

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Join our Digital Team as Agile Delivery Lead and you can help make it happen. Our mission is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop & deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments and help patients improve their health. At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Your job? You will coach the team and guide them to successful outcomes. The role will involve working closely with Product Owner to maintain a rich product backlog, to guide the development and partner teams to successfully deliver prioritized features, keeping in mind quality and delivery predictability.You will ensure projects are effectively developed, integrated, and deployed with quality and on time delivery.

Main responsibilities:

• Coach and mentor teams in adopting agile principles and behaviors
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, continuous delivery and outcome-driven decision-making
• Guide sustainable cadence in product development
• Bring agility into product discovery and hypothesis validation thinking
• Learning from data and taking decisions from it
• Support collaboration between cross-functional product teams (PO, Full-Stack Developers, Data Professionals, UX/UI) & business stakeholders
• Remove impediments for continuous flow and improvement
• Coordinate with teams to manage dependencies and remove impediments
• Measure success by using standard metrics and drive team efficiency and productivity improvement through data points.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to team members to improve the team’s Agile and Scrum maturity
• Influence others including those more senior on best practices in Agile and work with other Agile Delivery Leads to increase the effectiveness of the application of Agile/Scrum
• Leverage agile tracking tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)

About you

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Broad experience working in a variety of Agile environments of different maturities, including product-centric environments and hypothesis-driven development
• Experience managing multiple product teams and coordinating work across multiple teams and releases
• Demonstrated experience identifying and resolving systemic organizational blockers in Agile environments
• Ability to apply systems thinking to improve delivery predictability across multiple teams
• Demonstrated experience with Lean practices (Kanban, flow metrics, WIP management, value stream mapping) with a track record of optimizing delivery flow and reducing waste
• Intermediate knowledge of Digital Product Management practices (product discovery, OKRs, outcome-driven roadmaps)
• Working knowledge of change management principles, with experience driving adoption of new ways of working across teams and organizational boundaries
• Competency in applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance organizational goals
• Positive leadership skills, with experience in mentoring teams, problem solving and conflict resolution
• Advanced facilitation skills, with proven ability to lead workshops and drive alignment across senior stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, with experience in influencing, listening actively and negotiating within a team environment
• Ability to influence and lead behavior changes, including with those more senior
• Collaborative mindset, with an ability to empathize with colleagues and establish relationships
• Self-motivated, highly organized, able to thrive in a fast-paced, highly dynamic environment

Key Technical Requirements & Qualifications

• Master's Degree or equivalent experience
• Certified Scrum Master and/or SAFe certification (CSM, PSM-I)
• Technical knowledge of software application development and agile life-cycle methodologies
• Experience in delivering technical projects (Data, Application, IT) by managing external vendors
• Outstanding organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously using Scrum
• Experience in using agile delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Experience in IT Healthcare is a plus
• Experience in the e-commerce domain would be a strong asset, as Sanofi is actively growing its B2B eCommerce footprint

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.