Job Description

Department \xe2\x80\x93 Cross DD&IT Services, DD&IT GBS

Are you passionate about agility, driving change and transforming the ways we work to a more value driven, empowered and self-organised setup in Novo Nordisk? Do you thrive within an environment of co-creation, entrepreneurship, and innovation? Are you looking to make an impact by being a Scrum Master, key driver in our agile transformation while growing yourself into an agile coach? This is the place. Apply now!

The Position

As an Agile Coach and part of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) team you will join us in facilitating and enabling the Agile journey in Novo Nordisk. We do this in a \xe2\x80\x9chub & spoke\xe2\x80\x9d set up driving the change through Communities of Practises, local LACEs, and line of businesses in global Novo Nordisk. You will be the anchor person in the LACE and you will influence and be a catalyst in promoting an agile culture and the agile transformation backlog. This requires you to be curious about the agile values, the organisation, the people within and how they collaborate. Some of your key focus areas will be to:

• Educate and Train the organization on Agile values and methodologies as well as role model techniques and behaviours. Execute trainings and workshops to enhance knowledge on the Agile values and ways of working. Lead Communities of Practise.
• Coach and mentor, all agile roles, teams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs) across the global organization (Release Train Engineer, Agile Release Train leadership, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Teams, Business Owner etc.) through adaptation of Agile practices. Apply knowledge on Agile Quality processes and technical agility.
• Drive continuous improvement and scaling of the agile methods, tools and processes based on learnings captured in the teams/Agile Release Trains. Active participation in the LACE (Lean Agile Centre of Excellence) to evolve the Agile methodologies. Lead strategic initiatives in LACE.
• Influence leadership to drive change and enable the organization to move quicker together. Proactively guide and advice Line of Business (LoB) and IT.
• Coach, challenge, and guide roles on different levels of the organization based on the endorsed mandate of the LACE.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in relevant field with minimum 5+ years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in Agile methodologies.
• Minimum 5 to 8 years of Agile Coaching experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in the SAFe\xc2\xae framework.
• Preferable experience with technical IT delivery as Developer, Tester or similar.
• Preferred to have certifications in Agile / SAFe / KanBan / SCRUM which are relevant to this role.

About the department

Cross IT Services is the unit responsible for supporting compliance management of multiple IT systems in Novo Nordisk. These systems are used on a global scale by many areas of the business, including Research & Development, Early Development, Product Supply, Quality, Finance etc. and are critical to the execution of key business process such as development, manufacturing, sales, finance etc. Cross IT Services focuses on delivering harmonised support services related to the Compliance, Validation and Testing areas, thus supporting the maintenance of the systems in a validated state and provide various support functions to the office of the CIO department with respect to IT Processes, IT Sourcing and Lean Agile Centre of Excellence.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We\xe2\x80\x99re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things \xe2\x80\x93 from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we\xe2\x80\x99re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact
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Deadline
22nd May 2023.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we\xe2\x80\x99re life changing.

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