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, along with being a Scrum Master for the respective squad
- 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)
- 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.)
Qualifications BTech/BE (Mechnical, Electrical, Electronics) , MBA (PGDM)
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