Senior Project Manager

Position: Senior Project Manager

Introduction

Axtria is a global provider of cloud software and data analytics to the Life Sciences industry. We help Life Sciences companies transform the product commercialization journey to drive sales growth and improve healthcare outcomes for patients. We are acutely aware that our work impacts millions of patients and lead passionately to improve their lives.

Since our founding in 2010, technology innovation has been our winning differentiation, and we continue to leapfrog competition with platforms that deploy Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Our cloud-based platforms – Axtria DataMax™, Axtria SalesIQ™, and Axtria MarketingIQ™ – enable customers to efficiently manage data, leverage data science to deliver insights for sales and marketing planning and manage end-to-end commercial operations. With customers in over 30 countries, Axtria is one of the biggest global commercial solutions providers in the Life Sciences industry. We continue to win industry recognition for growth and are featured in some of the most aspirational lists – INC 5000, Deloitte FAST 500, NJBiz FAST 50, SmartCEO Future 50, Red Herring 100, and several other growth and technology awards.

Axtria is looking for exceptional talent to join our rapidly growing global team. People are our biggest perk! Our transparent and collaborative culture offers a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry. Axtria Institute, our in-house university, offers the best training in the industry and an opportunity to learn in a structured environment. A customized career progression plan ensures every associate is setup for success and able to do meaningful work in a fun environment. We want our legacy to be the leaders we produce for the industry. Will you be next?

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Lead the Agile Team as the Scrum Master.
• Facilitate getting the work done by removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments.
• Assist the team in preparation for Agile Release Train (ART) activities, including Product Increment (PI) Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
• Guide the team in establishing estimates and help the team understand how to estimate features and capabilities.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
• Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.
• Develop all user stories and write user acceptance criteria to be used against completing stories as done.
• Provide vision and direction to the Agile Team on all user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on.
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product based on input from key stakeholders.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI.
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum and SAFe (Scaled Agile for the Enterprise) best practices and new trends.

Required Skills:

• Experience as a scrum master/product owner/manager working in an agile team that was diligently applying agile principles, practices, and theory.
• Knowledge of SAFE (Scaled Agile for the Enterprise) methodology is desirable.
• Able to work in a global environment including the ability to maintain global relationships and understand different business models that may vary by region and business unit.
• A good understanding of multi-channel engagement/marketing from a business perspective using data to drive the customer journey.
• Able to map business requirements to technical and functional requirements.
• Able to write detailed Epics, User Stories and User Acceptance Criteria to drive development and market adoption and understanding of feature/capability.

Education:
Master’s/MBA degree.

Experience: Minimum 15 years.
General knowledgeable about core digital technologies such as email, campaign management, web, analytics, and/or databases.

Additional Skills
Project Manager
User Acceptance
User Stories
Articulate
Product Management
ROI

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