R&D Program Manager (m/f), Zug

By bridging the gap between the physical and digital worlds, we help to accelerate digitalisation and sustainability: so that our customers around the world can become more competitive, resilient and sustainable.

Your new responsibilities

• Facilitating agile ceremonies such as PI planning / "Inspect and Adapt" workshops
• Facilitating periodic synchronization meetings, including the Scrum of Scrum / ART synchronization at program level
• Collaborating with product and portfolio management, product owners, software architects and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
• Tracking and reporting of ART KPI metrics and partnering with teams to develop and implement improvement plans as necessary
• Assisting the teams in identifying and removing blockers and acting as the escalation point for issues that cannot be resolved within the ART
• Being an internal advocate for Lean and Agile / SAFe principles
• Purchase order management and coordination with external suppliers
• Budget management and forecasting for all resources required for the ART

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related field
• 3 to 5 years as Release Train Engineer or R&D Project Lead or R&D Program Manager in an agile environment, preferably in a B2B industry at headquarters level
• HVAC knowledge would be an advantage
• Strong technical background and experience in leading teams to produce high quality software
• Ability to lead by influence in an environment with different stakeholders and partners
• Ability and passion to deliver customer value
• Experience in a large, multi-cultural, international environment and working with distributed teams
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English; knowledge of German would be desirable