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Job Description
The Opportunity
- Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
- Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company's IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together,
we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
We are looking for an Agile Lead / Scrum Master who combines strong agile expertise with a growth mindset, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups. The ideal candidate is not simply a facilitator of Agile processes, but a proactive leader who helps teams solve complex problems, improve decision-making, and continuously evolve the way they work.
You should be comfortable working in a fast-changing environment where priorities shift, new technologies emerge rapidly, and success depends on collaboration, adaptability, and initiative.
What will you do in this role:
Team Leadership & Agile Excellence
- Enable 2-3 cross-functional teams delivering data, automation, and AI-related solutions.
- Facilitate Agile events in a way that drives value, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Coach teams toward greater autonomy, ownership, and self-organization.
- Help teams identify and address impediments, dependencies, and delivery risks.
- Promote outcome-focused planning rather than activity-focused execution.
- Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
- Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leaders, Business Stakeholders, and Leadership Teams to align priorities and delivery outcomes.
- Facilitate discussions across organizational boundaries and help teams navigate competing priorities.
- Influence decisions through data, insights, and robust facilitation, regardless of organizational hierarchy.
Organizational Agility & Change Leadership
- Drive initiatives that improve team effectiveness, collaboration, and delivery performance.
- Challenge inefficient processes and propose better approaches when needed.
- Create an environment where team members feel safe speaking openly, raising concerns, and sharing ideas.
- Support organizational change efforts and help teams adapt to evolving business needs.
AI & Digital Enablement
- Leverage modern AI and productivity tools to improve team effectiveness and delivery outcomes.
- Identify opportunities where AI can reduce friction, accelerate learning, improve workflows, and enhance decision-making.
- Encourage responsible experimentation with emerging technologies.
- Help teams adopt innovative ways of working in an increasingly AI-enabled environment.
What success looks like:
- Within this role, success is measured not only by delivery metrics but also by how effectively you:
- Build high-perf
📌 Specialist, Business Agility (Hyderabad)
🏢 Msd
📍 Hyderabad