Project Manager/RTE &Scrum Master – AI-Driven Clinical Data Management – 6990

Contract Duration: 16 months

 

Our client is a leading Swiss multinational healthcare company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. Operating in Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics, it is one of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies and a global leader in in-vitro diagnostics and cancer treatments. Our client is known for its strong focus on innovation, particularly in personalized healthcare, and has played a major role in developing treatments for oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, and neuroscience.

 

We are looking for a Project Manager who also serves as Scrum Master for three delivery teams within a strategic programme that applies agentic AI and rule-based automation to clinical trial data review. The programme is in active build with a fixed MVP deadline, a distributed team of approximately 50 people across 5 delivery teams, and GxP regulatory requirements.

 

At the programme level, you own delivery execution – planning, tracking, risk management, dependency resolution, and stakeholder communication. At the team level, you facilitate agile ceremonies, coach teams on effective ways of working, and remove impediments for cross-functional delivery teams. You will work alongside a Product Manager (who owns vision and prioritisation) and a Solution Architect (who owns technical decisions).

 

The perfect candidate: The perfect candidate is a pragmatic, hands-on servant leader who thrives in ambiguity and leads by enabling the team rather than controlling them. He maintains a high-trust, psychologically safe environment while remaining firm on scope and commitments. Balancing a sharp eye for detail with a broad program-level perspective, he leads by example—equally comfortable shaping high-level strategy or diving into the trenches to update a RAID log or fix a broken Jira filter.

Main 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

 

 

 

Qualifications and Experience:

·     Relevant working/residency permit or Swiss/EU-Citizenship required

·      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

·      Clinical data management domain familiarity – you understand CRFs, EDC systems, data queries, and the data review process at a working level

·      Experience with AI/ML product delivery, particularly the challenges of validating non-deterministic systems

·      GxP validation experience for AI/ML or software systems in pharma

·      Experience with clinical data systems (Medidata Rave, CDMS, RBQM tools)

·      CSM, PSM, SAFe SM/RTE, PMP, or equivalent certification

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