Agile Specialist - Allergan Aesthetics

Company Description

About AbbVie

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

Job Description

As the Agile Specialist, you will report to the Senior Manager, Agile Practices as well as
continuously collaborate with key stakeholders across the business to solve the most important
technical problems.

You Will:

• Lead and refine continuous planning, ensuring ongoing planning for and visibility to a
rolling quarter + plan for the team/s you support.
• Maintain engineering team schedules, ensuring proper resource planning and translation
of estimates to key milestone dates.
• Track project milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and timelines to ensure projects
and programs stay on track and meet delivery timelines.
• Remove obstacles that may hinder the team's progress.
• Coordinate communication between different teams, departments, and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and PMO to manage and prioritize the product
backlog.
• Ensure engineers have necessary product requirements and UX designs to stay on track
and meet deadlines.
• Serve as the key liaison between software development teams and external
stakeholders building advocacy and credibility.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog
maintenance and refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Promote Agile best practices and educate team members to enhance team performance
and productivity.
• Support the JIRA management for teams they support and other tools as appropriate.
• Provide burndown charts, velocity tracking, and other agile performance metrics to
inform and resolve issues with the team and manager(s).
 

Qualifications

Required Experience & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in an Agile environment with experience using Agile methodologies
such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and related tooling.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. 

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

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