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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