Scrum Master

Scrum Master - 1

We are expanding our product management team and looking for an experienced Senior Scrum Master to join our team in Retail Industry. This is a critical role, suited for a person who is results oriented, great facilitator and an excellent team player with experience in driving process excellence for Agile methodologies and best practices.

Please note this is a Europe-based role. May require up to 20% travel.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate adoption of agile values and principles across the enterprise, and influence leadership and associates on the culture change required for long-term agile success
• Utilizes advanced coaching techniques to mature scrum teams, enabling optimal performance and delivery of high value outcomes
• Responsible for definition, adoption and optimization of agile framework, processes and practices
• Coaches and mentors Scrum Masters to deepen their knowledge and to mature their skills, techniques, and competences
• Define training curriculum and create training materials required on all aspects of planning and execution including user story creation, story mapping, release planning, agile events, progress monitoring and continuous improvement
• Define and roll out agile metrics and assist with the identification, collection and reporting on metrics and make recommendations for improvement
• Initiates scaling techniques and events, including Scrum of Scrums, cross team collaboration, large group planning, and dependency mapping
• Coach sprint teams to use agile best practices and principles to deliver high quality deliverables to our brand teams in a timely manner
• Work with multiple teams located in different geographic locations to plan and assist with improving delivery efficiency of product and development teams
• Drive roadmap estimation and planning efforts, grooming efforts, manage risks and dependencies and help improve throughput of delivery teams
• Establish workflows and reporting dashboards in JIRA for better sprint management and velocity reporting
• Assist in regular resource planning and roadmap planning activities

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Excellent knowledge of JIRA
• Experience creating and managing JIRA boards, implementing best practices and creating sprint dashboards
• Excellent team player, great collaborator and detail oriented
• Excellent written and verbal English language communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as scrum master with experience in ecommerce industry highly preferred
• Would be great to have eCom/retail/SFRA experience around the purchase (Pay, Deliver&Collect) part of the eCom customer journey.
• Agile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching or similar highly desirable
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) highly preferred
• Experience working with project tasking tools such as monday.com preferred
• Experience working with remote teams and e-commerce platforms (ideally Shopify) is a plus