Job Description

Business Agility Specialist

Our company’s IT division partners with colleagues across the business to help serve our patients and customers around the world. We are a high-energy team of dynamic, innovative individuals dedicated to leveraging information and technology to efficiently drive revenue and productivity, thereby advancing our company’s contribution to global medical innovation. Join us to be part of a team that is at the forefront of research and development, delivering innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals.

Responsibilities

• Drive consistency in ways of working across GRC verticals by documenting and promoting standard processes, templates, and workflows.

• Act as a utility player across GRC teams—partnering with product owners, program managers, and analysts—to help mature team practices and remove blockers.

• Build, maintain and distribute operational and strategic reports and dashboards to provide leadership with timely insights into program status, risks, and key KPIs.

• Help operationalize new tooling and platform capabilities (e.g., JIRA, MS Power BI, other tracking or collaboration tools) to improve transparency and efficiency.

• Facilitate cross-functional coordination for key initiatives, track action items, and ensure follow-through.

• Support periodic planning, retrospectives, and process improvement activities to raise team performance and deliverable quality.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

• 1–3 years of experience in project management, program coordination, or a related role supporting cross-functional teams.

• Strong Excel skills and demonstrated comfort working with data (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, basic formulas).

• Experience with project tracking tools such as JIRA (administration or power-user experience a plus).

• Experience creating or maintaining BI reports/dashboards (Microsoft Power BI preferred).

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to translate operational detail into concise executive-level updates.

• Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders in a distributed, matrixed organization.

Preferred

• Exposure to GRC, risk, or compliance functions.

• Experience facilitating agile ceremonies or familiarity with agile frameworks.

• Basic SQL knowledge or experience extracting/manipulating data from APIs.

• Prior experience in a global or highly regulated environment.

• Microsoft Office stack, specifically Excel, PowerPoint, Teams or similar.

• JIRA or similar.

• MS Power BI, Confluence, basic SQL is preferred.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Competitive salary & incentive pay

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system and referral scheme

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, Foodora, and discount programmes

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

Required Skills:

Asset Management, Benefits Management, Business Development, Change Agility, Collaboration Tools, Communication, International Business Development, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Management System Development, Medical Teamwork, Organizational Performance Management, Pivot Tables, Process Improvements, Product Management, Project Cost Tracking, Project Management, Public Administration, Requirements Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Strategic Planning, System Designs, Team Effectiveness

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

1st - Day

Valid Driving License:

No

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

03/10/2026

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