project manager/rte &scrum master - ai-driven clinical data management.
- basel, basel-stadt
- posted 3 days ago
- closes 31 july 2026
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- basel, basel-stadt
- temporary
- job categoryhealth & social care, practitioner & technician
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We are looking for a pragmatic, hands-on servant leader who thrives in ambiguity and leads by enabling the team rather than controlling them.
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General Information:
Tasks & Responsibilities:
Must Haves:
Thank you for your application!
show more- Start date: asap
- latest Start Date: 01.07.2026
- Planned duration: 30.11.2027
- Extension: not planned
- Workload: 100%
- Home Office: 50%
- Travel: 5% within Europe
- Team: 50
- Working hours: Standard
- Is a criminal record extract required: no
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Programme Delivery Management
- Own the delivery plan across multiple parallel teams from current state through MVP and subsequent releases
- Drive PI-level planning, manage cross-team dependencies, and resolve blockers before they hit the critical path
- Maintain the RAID log with clear owners, deadlines, and recommendations
- Enforce scope discipline through a structured requirements intake and triage process
- Release management: develop and maintain a release calendar and schedule, coordinating with development, QA, and operations teams on timelines. Lead post-implementation reviews to identify release cycle process improvements.
- Scrum Master for Three Delivery Teams
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives for the teams
- Shield teams from external disruptions and remove impediments quickly
- Coach team members on agile practices and continuous improvement
- Track sprint health (velocity, burndown, blocked items) and surface concerns early
- Support Product Owners with backlog refinement, story breakdown, and Definition of Done compliance
- Cross-Team Coordination
- Facilitate Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, and dependency resolution sessions across all 5 delivery teams
- Manage the Jira ALM project structure as the single source of truth for programme status
- Ensure consistent Jira hygiene across all teams (issue types, labels, linking, workflows)
- Enable effective collaboration between co-located (Basel) and virtual (US, India) team members
- Stakeholder Communication
- Provide transparent program status reporting to leadership
- Manage stakeholder expectations around MVP scope and post-MVP deferrals
- Coordinate with adjacent programmes and platform teams on integration dependencies
Must Haves:
- 7+ years of project management experience in software delivery, including 3+ years managing programmes with multiple parallel teams
- Demonstrated Scrum Master experience - you have facilitated agile teams, not just observed them. You know how to run an effective retro and how to coach without directing
- Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry experience with understanding of GxP requirements and what inspection readiness means in practice
- Hands-on Jira experience - you have configured and managed Jira projects, not just consumed reports. Xray test management experience preferred
- Experience with scaled agile delivery (SAFe or similar) and the pragmatism to know when to adapt the framework to the situation
- Strong risk and dependency management skills with a bias toward action
- Experience managing distributed hybrid teams across multiple time zones
- Fluent English communication - written and verbal
Thank you for your application!
We are looking for a pragmatic, hands-on servant leader who thrives in ambiguity and leads by enabling the team rather than controlling them.
Would you identify yourself on it?
General Information:
- Start date: asap
- latest Start Date: 01.07.2026
- Planned duration: 30.11.2027
- Extension: not planned
- Workload: 100%
- Home Office: 50%
- Travel: 5% within Europe
- Team: 50
- Working hours: Standard
- Is a criminal record extract required: no
Tasks & Responsibilities:
Must Haves:
Thank you for your application!
show more- Programme Delivery Management
- Own the delivery plan across multiple parallel teams from current state through MVP and subsequent releases
- Drive PI-level planning, manage cross-team dependencies, and resolve blockers before they hit the critical path
- Maintain the RAID log with clear owners, deadlines, and recommendations
- Enforce scope discipline through a structured requirements intake and triage process
- Release management: develop and maintain a release calendar and schedule, coordinating with development, QA, and operations teams on timelines. Lead post-implementation reviews to identify release cycle process improvements.
- Scrum Master for Three Delivery Teams
- Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives for the teams
- Shield teams from external disruptions and remove impediments quickly
- Coach team members on agile practices and continuous improvement
- Track sprint health (velocity, burndown, blocked items) and surface concerns early
- Support Product Owners with backlog refinement, story breakdown, and Definition of Done compliance
- Cross-Team Coordination
- Facilitate Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, and dependency resolution sessions across all 5 delivery teams
- Manage the Jira ALM project structure as the single source of truth for programme status
- Ensure consistent Jira hygiene across all teams (issue types, labels, linking, workflows)
- Enable effective collaboration between co-located (Basel) and virtual (US, India) team members
- Stakeholder Communication
- Provide transparent program status reporting to leadership
- Manage stakeholder expectations around MVP scope and post-MVP deferrals
- Coordinate with adjacent programmes and platform teams on integration dependencies
Must Haves:
- 7+ years of project management experience in software delivery, including 3+ years managing programmes with multiple parallel teams
- Demonstrated Scrum Master experience - you have facilitated agile teams, not just observed them. You know how to run an effective retro and how to coach without directing
- Pharmaceutical or Life Sciences industry experience with understanding of GxP requirements and what inspection readiness means in practice
- Hands-on Jira experience - you have configured and managed Jira projects, not just consumed reports. Xray test management experience preferred
- Experience with scaled agile delivery (SAFe or similar) and the pragmatism to know when to adapt the framework to the situation
- Strong risk and dependency management skills with a bias toward action
- Experience managing distributed hybrid teams across multiple time zones
- Fluent English communication - written and verbal
Thank you for your application!
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