Global Subchapter Lead for Agile Delivery

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Job Description
Global Subchapter Lead for Agile Delivery
The Future Begins Here
At Takeda, we are creating a future-ready organization that uses data and digital to meet the needs of patients, our people, and the planet. We need your help to make this happen. Join our new Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia.
In this role at our state-of-the-art center, you will have the opportunity to grow your skills and create solutions that will benefit patients around the world. Become the heart of our internal innovation engine.
At Takeda we unite in diversity!
Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive workplace, where individuals are recognized for the diverse backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continually improving workplace experience and accessibility for everyone, and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our Team.
The Opportunity
As a Global Subchapter Lead for Agile Delivery you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the process of implementing agile delivery initiatives within the different stakeholders across our organization, ensuring smooth transitions and minimizing disruption, enabling successful implementation and adoption of agile delivery initiatives, and communicate with stakeholders from different levels of the organization.
Responsibilities

• Acts as a SME (Subject Matter Expertise) of Agile delivery to the subchapter team members and provides advisory to the allocated business functions to meet global demand in an agile way.
• Monitor and manage the implementation of Agile delivery initiatives coming from Takeda, whilst managing the workload and building appropriate skills and capabilities of the chapter members fitting to the organizational demand.
• Set and manage objectives to develop new initiatives or programs, such as identifying new areas of interest for chapter members, creating new events or activities, launching new projects that align with the Global Chapter's mission, vision and goals.
• Lead the team to drive smooth agile delivery initiatives across regions and organizations within Takeda.
• Manage the workload capacity of the team, the career and skill development of chapter members and focus on the constant visibility within the platform or business focus of the chapter in alignment with the Global Chapter Lead. This could involve developments or collaborating with parts of the organization to promote the chapter activities.
• Ensures adherence to compliance and quality standards while focusing on optimizing Agile Delivery processes.

ACCOUNTABILITIES
Talent Work Allocation and Flex Plans

• Coordinate and collaborate with the Global Chapter lead to allocate Subchapter members based on the demand needs.
• Collaborates with the Global Chapter Lead to understand business problems to ensure results whilst monitoring skill and capabilities developments.
• Manage work allocation constraints for Subchapter members, and procure flex talent when and where appropriate.
• Establish and maintains open and clear lines of team communication to facilitate status transparency.
• Assess and balance the talent needs with Subchapter member's development goals.
• Enables dashboards to facilitate demand management visibility in collaboration with the Global Chapter Lead.

Subchapter services

• Responsible for overseeing the delivery of the subchapter initiatives.
• Leads the Agile Delivery teams to make sure the initiatives are delivered to the highest standards.
• Ensure digital content creation are aligned with the organization strategy, narrative and objectives.
• Look to promote a lean-agile mindset and practices to foster continuous improvement within the subchapter to enable a better experience from our stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Global Chapter Lead to continuously enhance the services delivered from the subchapter.

Subchapter Development

• Work closely with the Global Chapter lead to provide the vision and lead the Subchapter capabilities build-out.
• Cooperate closely with other Global Subchapter Leads within the chapter to ensure consistency in the procedures subchapter wide.
• Clearly define different Subchapter capabilities, with a harmonized set of roles and skills
• Lead the Subchapter as an experienced practitioner and be a role model to the members.
• Identify Subchapter members to serve as leaders who help provide training and oversight for their people management responsibilities.
• Manage escalations, risks and issues related to the services delivered by the Agile teams.
• In collaboration with the Global Chapter Lead, define and implement upskilling plans for the subchapter team members to maintain best-in-class advisory and delivery.

Talent Development

• Foster close cooperation across all chapter members and encourages cross-training, knowledge sharing and development.
• Works with HR and Talent Attraction to define roles, recruit top talent, conduct candidate interviews, and onboard new chapter members
• Track the progress of each individual toward completion of the training curriculum
• Set targets for development and growth, and completes final assessment of Subchapter members in professional development, in alignment with the technical capability lead.
• Lead talent development and retention initiatives, including provisioning of training, sharing of best practices, and initiatives to promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Provides dashboards/reports to provide visibility about the hiring process.

Performance Evaluations

• Oversee collection of formative and evaluative feedback for each Subchapter member from their network of professional connections.
• Oversee delivery of performance evaluations for Subchapter members, factoring in individual contributions and collective team performance.
• Ensures performance reviews are properly quantified.

DIMENSIONS AND ASPECTS

• In-depth knowledge of various Agile frameworks (such as Scrum, Kanban, Disciplined Agile, Design Thinking, Extreme Programming, Less, Nexus, Scaled Agile Framework) and Project Management standards (PMP, PRINCE2, etc.) to enable effective implementation of agile delivery practices and adhering to Takeda values.

• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and Agile Delivery best practices ensures that the Sub-chapter Lead can adapt tactics and methodologies to enhance team performance continually.

Leadership

• Strong strategic thinking and decision making.
• Has demonstrated success in leading Agile Delivery teams and initiatives in a global environment in the technology area.
• Experience developing and managing high performing teams.
• Ability to form strong working relationships across a matrix environment.
• Act as a change agent, drive an agile and innovation culture and mindset within the country and region

Decision-making and Autonomy

• Technically strong with proven ability to make sound decisions and lead Agile Delivery teams.
• Ability to lead effectively and work concurrently across multiple priorities in a goal-oriented, timeline-driven, and remote management work environment
• Solutions oriented, with the ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop qualitative and quantitative approaches for identifying and assessing various options to provide solutions
• Strong business acumen with an ability to understand the business implications of decisions.
• Result oriented - drives to pragmatic solutions and balances the ideal with the practical in order to deliver best value to the organization
• Makes timely decisions and translates strategy into action. Ensures impact is quantified, tracked and realized.

Interaction

• Ability to manage relationships with various stakeholders from different levels in the organization from team-level to senior executives, including product owners, business leaders, and internal customers. This involves understanding their requirements, providing updates, and managing expectations to ensure customer satisfaction.

Innovation

• Challenges the status quo to drive a greater value and growth for the business.
• Drive simplification, innovation and continuous improvement activities while ensuring business continuity and minimal business disruptions.
• Ensures knowledge sharing across the delivery center and global IT.

Complexity

• Proven track record of driving continuous improvement initiatives applying common frameworks or methodologies such as Lean, Agile, or SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
• Operating in a digital/technology complex and heavily regulated environment.
• Demonstrated capability to successfully collaborate in a matrix organization and manage a complex cross functional global environment.
• Working within international / global remit and within and across other cultures.

Responsibilities

• Excellent English communication, listening and influencing skills; ability to listen, anticipate customer needs and influence solutions.
• 10+ years of experience in building and managing Agile Delivery teams for technology development/software development organizations.
• Demonstrated expertise in engaging with stakeholders across all organizational tiers, from team-level personnel to C-suite executives.
• Deep knowledge and proven record of experience working with Agile Delivery practices, frameworks or methodologies.
• Proven record of experience coaching and mentoring a group of experts like Release Train Engineers, Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Project/Program Managers on best-in-class practices related to Agile, Lean or Project Management.
• Professional written and verbal English skills with ability to clearly present ideas.
• Experience leading multiple teams in a fast-paced Agile environment is a plus.
• Passionate about agile delivery and continuous improvement; willing to challenge status quo and dissent when needed, and not afraid to point out areas of development.
• A track record of success in developing technology leaders and staff.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Highly collaborative working style, strong interpersonal capabilities and relationship building; proven ability to manage diverse client and stakeholder relationships, and to collaborate effectively with customers and colleagues.
• Excellent ability to facilitate discussions around complex issues and bring them to resolution

What Takeda Can Offer You
At Takeda, you may build your career, while contributing to better people's lives. Expect trust driven culture built around Integrity, Fairness, Honesty and Perseverance. Joining ICC will give you access to high end technology, training and colleagues who will support your growth.
Salary
As a motivated employee, you should be compensated appropriately. The minimum salary for this position is € 5400 per month (full time), but your final remuneration package may be higher depending on your qualifications and experience.
Benefits
Here are a few benefits our employees are enjoying at Takeda. To get a full picture of what we are offering, follow this link.

• Cafeteria
• Medical - High standard medical care
• Bridge days
• Summer Hours
• Multisport Card

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Locations
SVK - Bratislava - Svatoplukova
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time