Scrum Master

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Job Description

Scrum Master

Full-time. Flexible work available. Bratislava, Slovakia. 

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are creating a future-ready organization, one that evolves at the speed of science and technology using data and digital to meet the needs of patients, our people, and the planet. In order to make that happen, we need your help.

Join our exciting and new Innovation Capability Center (ICC) in Bratislava, Slovakia. This specialized, innovative, and state-of-the-art center of technological resources will drive data and digital capabilities and solutions across Takeda. The Center will be home to approximately 300 change agents, organized into chapters and cross-functional squads based on agile ways of working.

Grow your data and digital skills, create and enhance solutions for patients around the globe, and help us create a data and digital-forward Takeda. This is a unique opportunity to become the heart of our internal innovation engine.

The Opportunity

As a Scrum Master, you'll act as a facilitator and advocate of the Agile methods of collaboration, in alignment with a product-centric organization. This role coordinates supports and assists all aspects of a product team. You’ll collaborate closely with and is the single point of contact to the product owner, coordinate the development team and align with release management to achieve customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Providing rigors for all Agile ceremonies, including quality of story production and effective retrospectives while having a constant focus on improving the team.

• Ensure there is full comprehension by the technical teams of all product stories during scoping and ideation phases.

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving.

• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments.

• Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development.

• Help the scrum team achieve higher levels of scrum maturity.

• Support the product owner and provide education where needed

• Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and are SPOC for the product owner and release manager or other functions of the business.

• Deliver ongoing training for the team, product owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization.

Skills and Qualifications

Required

• Minimum 3 years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams

• Minimum 3 years of IT/SW delivery experience working in an agile environment

• Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development, and Integration

• Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus

• Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile Principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation

• Ability to adapt to a changing environment

• Proven ability to continually build job knowledge & skills

• English language proficiency

Preferred

• Healthcare and Life Sciences industry experience desired

• Industry-recognized Agile and/or DevOps Qualifications,

• Preferred Technical Degree (or equivalent experience)

What Takeda Can Offer You

• A meaningful career, grounded in our values.

• Continuous professional growth and global careers

• A diverse and inclusive network of colleagues

• Flexible work environment, including hybrid working

• A collaborative culture encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit and agile thinking

Benefits

• Healthcare

• Retirement plan

• Life insurance

• Paid leave

• Competitive salary

• Annual bonus

Extra Benefits

• Food stipend

• Professional Development

• Paid volunteering time

• Summer schedule

• Education and Internet allowance

• Referral bonus

Compensation

Salary

Similarly, situated employees earn 2200 Euros gross a month. Salary is based on experience.

Annual Bonus

Employees have the opportunity to earn an annual bonus based on company, business unit, and individual performance.

Referral program

Bonuses are available for referrals if your friends join Takeda.

Benefits

• We care about your future. So, we offer a retirement plan for employees, which includes up to a 3% match. You'll also have access to life insurance covering short-term and long-term disability in case of injury or death.

• When in need, we'll support you. Our Takeda-sponsored individual medical plan will give you access to timely health treatment for your medical needs. We also have additional payment available for critical illnesses.

• We understand mental health is also important. Counseling and support resources are available 24/7 through our assistance program for employees and immediate family members.

• We want you to spend time away. We offer generous paid leave and also additional time off for maternity, paternity, and parental leave.

• We are committed to helping the world. You'll have the opportunity to participate in paid time away for volunteering activities.

• We know there's more to life than work. we return to the office, you'll enjoy a mix of remote working and in-office collaboration in our state-of-the-art facilities. During summer we have flexible workweeks with half-day Fridays.

• And some additional benefits because at Takeda, we invest in our people.

• You’ll have access to:

• Daily allowance for meals

• Supplementary monthly payment to spend on retirement savings, educational courses, and leisure activities

• Assistance for home office internet or English learning expenses

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