Scrum Master, Platform Delivery

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at [Employer]?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You are responsible for ensuring that projects are successfully completed on time and on budget. This includes project governance, budget and timeline development, build quality, testing and operational readiness, and the completed project’s readiness to go live.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Drive consistency and quality in the execution of projects using the appropriate methodology and tools
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project-level risks and escalate them to global leads and/ or the program manager when needed
• Provide project reporting and status updates using scorecards, status reports and monthly review meetings and leading stakeholder meetings
• Lead budget management, resource planning and utilization
• Confirm the completion and consistency of projects and their readiness to go live
• Own the relationship with the external vendors including quality assurance in all phases of project delivery

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Proven experience in project management methodology
• Excellent communication skills and able to drive effective discussions with project resources from tactical execution level up to steering committee members
• Excellent project planning and proactiveness in identifying risks and mitigations and managing strict timelines
• Strong focus on cost, schedule and quality of project delivery
• Knowledge of relevant business processes and related technology solutions
• Stakeholder management and ability to influence positively in decision making
• Proven ability in building effective teams across internal and external partners
• Strong conceptual and analytic skills – enjoys problem solving

IN THIS ROLE – Drive end-to-end data product delivery by combining Agile discipline with structured project management. Own sprint workflows, risk mitigation, and stakeholder alignment for timely data product delivery. Break through blockers and orchestrate cross-team dependencies across engineering, governance, data product and operations teams.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING — Strong servant leadership; exceptional facilitation skills; ability to balance agile flexibility with governance rigor; experience in both Scrum and structured project delivery. A passion for driving adoption of PMO standards and continuous improvement across delivery teams.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned data products — plan, execute, and close projects within scope, time and budget
• Manage project teams, stakeholders and inter-team dependencies to ensure delivery aligns with product stream strategy and portfolio objectives
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies & ensure the agile methodology is consistently followed by all team members
• Drive sprint planning, backlog grooming, manage team workflows, flag risks, and remove delivery blockers
• Develop and maintain project artefacts, including the project charter, work plan, RACI, and RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Decisions) across data product lifecycle phases.
• Track deliverable completion and sign-offs (HLD, DIF/DOF, STTM mapping, pipeline builds)
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure continuous, transparent communication across teams
• Escalate impediments to the Data Product Manager with clear impact assessment and recommended actions
• Coordinate test execution, track defects and resolution progress to meet the success criteria
• Provide proactive support during UAT, CAB preparation, hypercare phases, and ensure a smooth deployment workflow
• Drive adoption of PMO best practices, agile principles, retrospective outcomes, and process improvements to increase delivery efficiency and quality
• Maintain delivery metrics (velocity, burn-down/burn-up, cycle time, defect rates) and produce executive-level status updates for leadership and governance forums

SPECIFIC SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field
• 7+ years as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, or Project Manager
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Professional Scrum Master (PSM I/II)
• Proven experience managing data engineering or data platform delivery programs end-to-end
• Strong proficiency in Agile methodology and experience with Agile/DevOps Tools: Jira Software, GitHub
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills

GOOD TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

• PMP or SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) or SAF RAID loge Agilist (SA) certification
• Experience with scaled Agile frameworks (SAFe) and PI Planning
• Understanding of DevOps and CI/CD pipelines in a data delivery context
• Familiarity with DBx-based data platform delivery environments
• Background in FMCG/CPG enterprise environments

• Familiarity with AI-driven and agentic delivery models

• Knowledge of data governance processes
• Experience with ITIL change management frameworks

Business Unit Summary

At [Employer], our purpose is to empower people to snack right by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broad range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about.

We have a rich portfolio of strong brands globally and locally including many household names such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. We are proud to hold the top position globally in biscuits, chocolate and candy and the second top position in gum.

Our 80,000 makers and bakers are located in more than 80 countries and we sell our products in over 150 countries around the world. Our people are energized for growth and critical to us living our purpose and values. We are a diverse community that can make things happen—and happen fast.

[Employer] is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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