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Ana SantosAS

Ana Santos

Supermalter

Scrum Master, Agile Coaching & Training

€840/day
33 projects
Lisbon, PT
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ana

Experienced Scrum Master with a background in Clinical Psychology and over 10 years of leadership and coaching experience. Currently leading Agile delivery initiatives within a global, regulated Pharma environment. Proven ability to guide cross-functional teams through the full delivery lifecycle — from structured planning to execution and implementation — ensuring alignment with governance standards, risk mitigation practices, and organizational objectives.
Strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders, managing dependencies across regions, and balancing agility with compliance in complex environments.
  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

  • Spanish

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Lisbon (up to 50km)

Experience

  • SANOFI
    Head of Scrum Teams & Agile Coach
    PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
    May 2023 - Today (3 years and 3 months)
    Paris, France
    Leading Agile coaching initiatives across multiple teams in a global, regulated environment.
    Managing and coaching a team of four Scrum Masters, promoting autonomy and high‑performance practices.
    Partnering with directors to scale Agile ways of working and strengthen team maturity.
    Providing executive and leadership coaching (1:1) to support capability building and change adoption.
    Acting as a strategic link between leadership and delivery teams to ensure alignment and flow.
    Embedding Agile principles to improve decision‑making, collaboration, and organizational effectiveness.
    Agile Coaching Scrum Master Leadership Skills SAFe Change Management
  • Ana Maçãs
    Coach | Trainer
    October 2014 - Today (11 years and 10 months)
    • Support individuals and teams in achieving personal and professional goals.
    • Facilitate growth, self-awareness, and performance improvement.
    Empathy Communication Rapport Emotional Intelligence Agile Coaching
  • Ana Maçãs
    Advanced study in Rapport and High-Performance teams
    November 2017 - Today (8 years and 9 months)
    • Rapport is the ability to create a state of mutual trust, respect, and understanding. Builds psychological safety, allowing teams to express themselves freely —a key to creating high-performance teams.
    Empathy & Rapport Training Psychological safe Empathy Connection

Reviews

5.0

Out of 3 ratings

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Timothée

Agile coaching & training - Sanofi Winthrop Industry - General Medecines GBU

Reviewed on 7/1/2026

We've worked several months with Ana and have renewed her contract several times, driven by the fruitful collaboration that we were having. In teams discovering it all (and showing quite some resistance!), Ana helped us to collectively move towards a more agile mindset. The way she combines her agile trainings and experience with her human skills as a trained psychologist, helps to push teams at the acceptable (or the agreed ;-)) level and ensure a steady progression. With Ana, we discovered the various elements going with agile: the artefacts, the ceremonies; she managed to introduce them step by step and in a manner that was well adapted to our setting which is very different from a tech environment with teams dedicated to the development of a product. She designed and rolled out some trainings, accompanied some targeted teams on a day-to-day basis to further embed the approach in our ways of working or facilitate some internal workshops (I couldn't count the number of Miro boards that she prepared along the way!). In addition, Ana also coordinated a group of 3 freelance scrum masters to ease the communication and the management of the group. Ana discovered the healthcare industry with us; one key element to highlight is how much efforts she put in understanding what was going on and learning on the way to bring the best she could to the table. She is naturally curious and willing to learn and this mindset is a great advantage; she is always open to new challenges and discoveries. Thank you Ana!
T

Timothée

SWI - Sanofi General Medicines

Reviewed on 10/16/2023

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Education

  • Business Mastery, Business
    Tony Robbins University
    2016
    Business Mastery, Business
  • Leadership Academy
    Tony Robbins University
    2017
    Leadership Academy

Certifications

  • AI-Empowered SAFe Scrum Master Course
    SAFe by Scaled Agile, Inc.
    2026
  • Agile Coach
    IC Agile
    2023

Skill set

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