Job Description
Senior Manager, SAP Agile (Project Manager)
The Opportunity
- Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
- Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of the company IT operating model, Tech centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each tech center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview:
Within the EIT SAP Platform Team, the Senior Manager, SAP Agile (Project Manager) will have responsibility managing and delivering SAP projects using Agile methodologies. The Senior Manager, SAP Agile Project Manager is responsible for guiding the SAP Platform team through the Agile process, facilitating effective communication and collaboration among team members, and ensuring that projects are delivered within the defined scope, timeline, and budget. The incumbent plays a critical role in driving successful project delivery by enabling teams to embrace Agile principles and practices, delivering value to stakeholders in a fast-paced and collaborative manner.
What will you do in this role:
- Facilitate Agile practices: Guide teams in the adoption and implementation of Agile methodologies (such as Scrum, Kanban, etc.) to enhance collaboration and productivity.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies: lead meetings such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to keep the team aligned, ensure progress, and identify areas for improvement.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing updates on project status, risks, and changes while also gathering feedback and requirements.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and impediments, assess their impact, and implement mitigation strategies to reduce project risks.
- Managing project scope and priorities: work closely with stakeholders to define project requirements and prioritize tasks, ensuring that the team focuses on delivering the most valuable features first.
- Monitoring project progress: track team velocity, monitor project metrics, and provide regular updates to stakeholders, enabling transparency and informed decision-making.
- Removing obstacles and facilitating collaboration: identify and address any impediments that are affecting team productivity, promote effective communication, and foster collaboration among team members and stakeholders.
- Continuous improvement: encourage a culture of continuous improvement, facilitating retrospectives to identify lessons learned and implementing changes to optimize project delivery.
What Should you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Life Sciences, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in project management leveraging various frameworks within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, principles, values, and practices such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean required. This includes knowledge of Agile frameworks, roles, ceremonies, and artifacts.
- Proficiency in project management techniques and practices.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills for effective and productive collaboration and fostering a culture of transparency and open communication within the team.
- Problem-solving and adaptability: The ability to think critically, analyze complex situations, and adapt plans based on feedback and changing requirements.
- Stakeholder management: understanding stakeholder needs, balancing competing priorities, and effectively communicating project progress and outcomes.
- Ability to manage multiple and competing priorities.
- Working knowledge of common tools used in this role - MS-Project, Spotfire, SharePoint and MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Atlassian tools (Jira & Confluence), Planning tools such as Apptio for financial planning and TCO management (Total Cost of Ownership).
- Continuous learning and improvement: embracing a growth mindset, seeking feedback, and identifying opportunities for process optimization and innovation.
- Conflict resolution: The ability to identify and address conflicts within the team or with stakeholders.
- Certifications preferred (one or more, not all): PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Agilist (SA), Project Management Professional (PMP) or any other relevant certification.
- Knowledge of various SAP ERP modules, and experience with licensing for ECC, S/4 HANA and cloud platforms, etc. preferred.
- Experience in Global SAP implementations in a project planning capacity preferred.
- Good understanding of business processes and ability to connect requirements from different groups preferred.
- Knowledge of Pharmaceutical industry and validated software environments preferred.
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases.
Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable
Shift:
Valid Driving License:
Hazardous Material(s):
Required Skills:
Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Design Applications, Software Configurations, Software Development, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Solution Architecture, System Designs, Systems Integration, Testing
Preferred Skills:
Job Posting End Date:
04/10/2025
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