R&D Program Manager
Signant Health
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About Signant Health
Signant Health is a global evidence generation company. We’re helping our customers digitally enable their clinical trial programs, meeting patients where they are, driving change through technology and innovations, and reimagining the path to proof.
R&D Program Manager
The R&D Program Manager is primarily responsible for organizing, optimizing and driving large, multi-team software development programs within our organization. The main task is to effectively run the development programs which are vital for the organization’s strategic direction, as well as creating and working towards long term goals.
Job source: getonbrd.com.
Job functions
As part of our team, your main responsibilities will be:
- Organising, optimising and driving large software development programs over multiple R&D teams, keeping a careful eye on the program set-up, structure, team dynamics and supporting collaboration across teams.
- Actively solving impediments all across the organization to make the program successful.
- Lead and improve a variety of program get-togethers that are to serve the goals of the program, e.g. Demos, All-hands sessions, PI planning, Steering meetings etc. Ensure that every session is prepared, the purpose of the session is clear and that the necessary follow-up takes place
- Ensure that our backlog processes are functioning as intended, that they are serving our purposes and that there is good collaboration between Product Management, R&D and UX. Drive forward refinement work in order that we are prepared for PI planning rounds. Provide transparency and predictability to product development and keep your finger on the pulse in terms of the status and the potential implications for the next PI. Driving the development streams to fulfil release targets.
- Initiate and drive forward improvement initiatives on the program e.g. initiatives that help us scale, distribute knowledge, improve our ways of working. Additionally, encourage others to initiate other improvement goals.
- Agile coaching across the program and beyond – working with people where they are, sparring over ideas, providing feedback, encouraging feedback in general and mentoring.
- Communication on all levels - keeping all stakeholders informed about the progress and key program milestones. Ensuring the communication travels to who it needs to reach.
- Participate in harmonizing the development practices across the other development programs. Contributes to company wide communities and initiatives
Qualifications and requirements
- Excellent leadership skills
- Excellent time management, facilitation and organization skills
- Agile software development practices and patterns
- Agile portfolio management and reporting tools
- Project management
- Excellent communication skills
- Agile coaching
- Good presentation skills
- A desire to improve the working culture
- Fluent in English (written and oral)
Desirable skills
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge
- Product management practices and patterns
- Experience in agile process development
- Experience in test automation and CI/CD pipeline
- Experience in Healthcare/pharma business domain
Conditions
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