Job Location

Cincinnati

Job Description

In this role, you will leverage your previous Agile experience to coach teams on best practices for Scrum to increase the Agile maturity of existing Scrum Teams. Coaching teams on Agile best practices is critical to the success of this role.

The Senior Scrum Master will work with our reserach and developmet as well as our product supply groups. They will act as a servant leader for the teams by facilitating clear communication to the product developers and owners working on their team. Creating a collaborative Agile environment that results in quality product delivery and overall increase in value for P&G. In addition, the Scrum Master is responsible for removing roadblocks that hinder the team from reaching their goals and has a flexible approach that enables the team to respond and adapt to change quickly.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies - sprint planning and refinement, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives

• Work with the Product Owners and Development teams to identify technical solutions and process improvements to align with business and IT strategic directions

• Coach the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and the organization

• Guide, coach, and motivate the team with the goal of increasing productivity

• Facilitate discussions, decision-making, and conflict resolution

• Identify and eliminate any hindrances or distractions that impede the team's ability to meet their commitments

• Demonstrate and advocate for fundamental agile values and principles. Ie: transparency, inspection and adaptation, collaboration, prioritization and team accountability

• Proactively help guide and remove blocker/impediments for the team or guide the team to remove their own impediments

• Act as a thought partner to the Team, supporting them in identifying solutions to obstacles that arise

• Enhance resource utilization, participate in capacity and sizing planning

• Use reporting tools to monitor the progress of the portfolio delivery and ensure transparency of team accomplishments and assessments of risks/issues

• Foster and enable a collaborative and innovative environment, support and empower the team to make suitable commitments through story commitment and task definitions

• Regularly assess the Teams’ Agile maturity, to identify best fit personal coaching and development approach for each Team

Job Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master in an Agile environment

• Expertise with Agile, the Scrum framework,

• Experience with PI Planning; Aiding in preparing Scrum Teams for PI Planning readiness, working with Release Train Engineers to ensure dependencies have been identified and accounted for, etc.

• Ability to create, interpret, analyze, and act upon team/portfolio-level metrics

• Ability to coach and mentor teams with excellent communication skills with the ability to concisely express highly technical concepts to non-technical business partners

• Strong influencing skills to achieve alignment up, down and across the organization

• Experience with one or more Agile tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, etc.

• Bachelor’s Degree

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or other accredited Scrum Master Certification

• Preferred

• Data and Analytics experience

• Knowledge of Databricks, SQL, Git Hub, Python, etc.

• Advanced Scrum Master Certification(s) such as PSM II, etc.

• Agile/SAFe Coaching certifications such as SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

• 2+ years of experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Scaled Agilist (SA) certification

Compensation for roles at P&G varies depending on a wide array of non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, degree/credentials, relevant skill set, and level of relevant experience. At P&G compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Total rewards at P&G include salary + bonus (if applicable) + benefits. Your recruiter may be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant location(s) during the hiring process.

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Qualified individuals will not be disadvantaged based on being unemployed.

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Job Schedule

Full time

Job Number

R000122303

Job Segmentation

Experienced Professionals (Job Segmentation)

Starting Pay / Salary Range

$105,000.00 - $150,000.00 / year