Product Coach

Are you passionate about helping teams navigate the complexities of product management? Do you have experience within agile practices and team transformation?

If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Product Coach.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States.

We are applying our TransCon technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of patients, science, and passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs. Today, we have a growing pipeline of prodrug therapies in development, each designed to be a best-in-class therapy.

We are seeking a passionate Product Coach to join our growing team. As a key member of the Ascendis Pharma team, you will play a crucial role in facilitating the teams in Global IT to perform at their highest potential.

You will join Global IT in Ascendis Pharma and be part of the Product Coach Community. In Global IT, we have been gradually maturing our product-driven organization for the past two years. We do not follow a specific agile framework or model but conduct experiments to discover what works in our company and regulated industry.

In Ascendis Pharma we are a cloud-first, SaaS, zero legacy system environment. Our product teams operate in an end-to-end delivery fashion and serve specific functional areas. We do not build software ourselves but rely on industry-specific vendors.

You will have excellent development opportunities in a flexible environment where “the way we do things” is open for discussion.

You will report to Lene Larsen, People Leader of Global IT who is based in Copenhagen as well as to Sune Mejlvang, IT Business Partner in a matrix structure.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Maneuver teams towards high performance
• Support team alignment and meaningful rhythms to ensure collaboration and foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning
• Provide guidance and support in areas like product discovery and strategy, roadmap planning, and prioritization
• Conduct workshops and training sessions on product management methodologies, tools, and best practices
• Help and coach teams on 'ways of working' to ensure a balance between speed, quality, and customer value
• Implement and maintain effective feedback loops to gather insights from customers, team members, and stakeholders
• Guide and coach on team composition
• Collaborate with people leaders and functional leaders to remove impediments in the team, unclogging the team’s flow where necessary
• Contribute to the Product Coach Community and the continuous development and improvement of our product-driven operating model

Qualifications and Skills:

5+ years of experience as a Product Coach, Agile Coach or Scrum Master where you maneuvered teams towards high performance.

Furthermore, you have:

• Experiences in different types of frameworks like Scrum, Lean, DevOps, Kanban.
• Understanding of related fields like Beyond Budgeting, Teal and Design Thinking.
• Capabilities in working with organizational behavior, psychological safety and change management.

Key competencies:

You are a strong team player with a can-do attitude who loves to take responsibility.

You possess an agile and entrepreneurial mindset and can thrive in an informal, open environment where innovation and change are key. You think on your feet and keep your composure when things move quickly.

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to possess the ability of making frictionless shifts between the different teams’ problems and complexity you are supporting. At daily level. In other words, we are looking for someone who possess a high capacity, a well-developed sense of pragmatism and the ability to quickly analysis how to help teams in the right direction.

Travel: 10-15 days per year.

Office: Hellerup, Denmark

Apply now.

Applications will be evaluated when received, so please apply as soon as possible.

All applications must be submitted in English and are treated confidentially.

For more details about the position or the company, please contact Anne Katrine Carlsson Sejr on M +45 30898966/ [email protected] or Lene Larsen on M +45 22995471/ [email protected].

Benefits

• You can expect an attractive remuneration package, short- and long-term incentives, pension scheme and health insurance.
• Laptop, iPhone, paid internet, and home office equipment
• A thorough and structured onboarding program
• To succeed in your job and expand in your role, you and your manager will continuously have Impact conversations about how to propel your development. If a need is identified, we find a way to help you grow.
• Soft drinks, fresh fruit and lunch every day in our canteen.
• Ascendis Pharma headquarters resides in a modern and bright office facility in Tuborg Havn in Hellerup with a view of the harbor, the canals, and the sea.
• To ensure a balanced approach to the office, all employees have the opportunity to work from home up to two days per week.