Summary:
About the Role:
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end Marketing Automation projects, from requirements and planning through execution, monitoring, reporting, and closure.
- Align stakeholders on project scope, objectives, deliverables, resources, timelines, milestones, and business outcomes.
- Maintain project plans and proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and corrective actions.
- Establish data-driven delivery management through actionable Agile metrics (team metrics - velocity, capacity utilization, sprint predictability, burn-down charts, burn-up charts; flow metrics - lead time, cycle time, Work in Progress (WIP); quality metrics - technical debt index, change failure rate, escaped defects).
- Own and facilitate all Scrum events (Sprint planning, Daily scrum, backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospective) ensuring they remain value-focused and outcome-driven:
- Ensure capacity planning and dependency visibility
- Drive risk identification and mitigation planning
- Foster collaboration and accountability
- Surface blockers and impediments




- Ensure Epics, stories, tasks meet Definition of Ready
- Improve backlog quality
- Facilitate estimation and sizing activities - planning poker, T-shirt sizing, capacity-based planning
- Validate incremental product outcomes
- Ensure proper management of scrum artifacts - product backlog, sprint backlog, definition of done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR), Acceptance criteria, increments.
- Provide regular status updates using delivery metrics, analytics, and KPIs, including sprint velocity, cycle time, quality, scope, budget, and capacity.
- Use Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, and approved automation or AI-enabled tools to improve planning, reporting, risk detection, documentation, quality, and delivery efficiency. Ensure compliance with project management best practices, industry standards, and regulatory requirements.

Required Skills:
- 7-10 years of project management experience in an

📌 Manager - Project Management (Hyderabad)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Hyderabad