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Manager, Agile PracticesAbbVie • Irvine, CA, US
Manager, Agile Practices

Manager, Agile Practices

AbbVie • Irvine, CA, US
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Manager, Agile Practices

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.

Job Description

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

You Will :

  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Agile Specialists, providing hands on support, regular feedback, and career development.
  • Establish clear performance expectations, foster a culture of accountability, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Ensure consistent implementation of Agile Practices while identifying and implementing continuous improvement of those practices.
  • Drive agile maturity by establishing standards of work, metrics-driven insights, and cross team collaboration.
  • Oversee and continuously improve planning processes to provide visibility into multiple quarters of work ahead while ensuring clarity of scope, dependencies, and key milestones.
  • Standardize reporting practices for KPIs such as velocity, burndown, and other delivery metrics, consolidating and presenting this data transparently to inform leadership of progress and enable decision making.
  • Track progress, identify and manage risks, and remove obstacles across Engineering teams supported by Agile Specialists.
  • Build strong partnerships to collaborate across the business, with key partners such as Product, Engineering, Program, Design, and business stakeholders, ensuring shared context, coordinated execution, and predictable outcomes.
  • Oversee the effective use of Jira and other tooling used by Agile Specialists, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and scalability across teams.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field.
  • 6+ years' experience in Agile delivery, with at least 2+ years of direct people management experience.
  • Expertise in Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe or similar) with a proven track record of scaling agile practices across teams.
  • Strong leadership and coaching skills.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and adaptability.
  • Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage through ambiguity and change.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence at multiple levels of the organization.
  • Data-driven mindset with the ability to leverage metrics to drive accountability and improvement.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
  • Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence, and related tooling.
  • Additional Information

  • 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 short-term incentive programs.
  • 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.

    AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled.

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