Senior Agile Facilitator - Stevenage, United Kingdom - GSK

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Site Name:
UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, Stevenage


Posted Date:
Jul 5 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.


_ Job title:
Senior Agile Facilitator_

_ Location:
Stevenage, UK_

_ Job purpose:
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The Senior Agile Facilitator in CMC Scientific Digital & Tech is accountable for enabling cross-functional Product teams in the successful Product delivery.


_ Overview:
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The Senior Agile Facilitator will support Product Owners, other Scrum Masters (Agile Facilitators) and Development Teams by coaching in agile ways of working, building shared understanding of agile mindset, helping to identify obstacles in the process, measuring the successful performance and assisting in value tracking.


_ Key responsibilities:
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Enabling functional product teams:

  • 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.
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Coaching and mentoring:


  • Serve as Team coach to support the agile ways of working by providing tailored guidance and direction on various levels of organization (Product Directors, Business Owners, Product Owners, Agile Facilitators and Development Teams)
  • Participate in and help to develop communities of practice with other Agile Facilitators in CMC and other Scientific Digital & Tech units
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Strategy Alignment:


  • Take active part in Scrum of Scrums meetings across CMC to work on backlog of impediments
  • Understand full CMC Portfolio structure and strategic direction as it relates to team goals and ensure strategy and delivery alignment at the product/team level.
  • Liaise with Strategy, Design and Test organization as well as other partner organizations (ex: Quality, Established Products, Portfolio, Finance) to adopt and embed standards and best practices across the product teams

_ Why you?_

Basic Qualifications:

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

  • Good experience as a Scrum Master, Agile Coach or Release Train Engineer
  • Indepth knowledge of Agile process and principles with handson experience in Scrum and Kanban
  • Working experience in an IT product related industry, with experience in IT software analysis, design or delivery.
  • Excellent relationship management, strong influencing, and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

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

  • Bachelor's degree
  • Computer Science or related bachelor's degree (Technical Degree eg Engineering, Information Technology)
  • SCRUM or SAFe certifications are a plus, but not required

#SCD and #LI-GSK

Closing Date for Applications - 19t_h_
July (COB)
Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.


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.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambi
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