IT&D Scrum Master, Global R&D Functions

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Information Technology & Digital​

In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

About the role

You’ll act as the delivery lead for a Product Team, ensuring the smooth operation of all relevant delivery processes and ceremonies. You’ll coach the Product Team in Agile best practices, work to identify opportunities to upskill team members, guard them from external requests or disruptions and support them with removing impediments to help them to deliver high value product.  You’ll be at the centre of the Product Team and co-ordinate all major product activities. You’ll be building a trusting and safe environment.

leading teams to deliver high value products in multicultural and matrix structures (including people from different countries and companies); working with Product Managers to find effective backlog management techniques, practice Agile principles and understand product planning in an empirical environment. You listen carefully, building trust and motivating teams. Above all, you’re have proactive approach, including willingness to learn new technologies.

Your responsibilities

• Nurture, coach, and guide Product teams to become high-performing and highly effective in delivering against business requirements
• Drive team maturity using agile maturity tools and provide analytics and insights, e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, # of blocked user stories/tasks resolved, Sprint goal(s) success, for development.
• Ensure roles and responsibilities are filled and accountability is maintained.
• Identify and remove impediments to enhance team delivery capabilities. Manage risks through issue escalation and resolution.
• Organise and facilitate Agile ceremonies and daily team communications.
• Collaborate with Product Managers for effective backlog management and empirical product planning.
• Liaise with the business community and stakeholders (e.g. business SMEs) to help them understand and adopt Agile practices
• Oversee relationships with selected vendors/suppliers involved in the delivery of development, testing, and support services

The experience we're looking for

• At least 6 years of experience as a Scrum Master, applying Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, XP), working in a regulated industry.
• Relevant Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSP, PMI-ACP), and experience working with Azure DevOps.
• Strong "can do" attitude and sense of urgency, with the ability to motivate the team and clear roadblocks effectively.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written and verbal communication, and presentation skills.
• Ambitious, adaptable to change, and comfortable with uncertainty.
• Attention to detail and quality-focused mindset, good working knowledge of GxP compliance.
• Strong understanding of requirements and productivity management tools.
• Basic understanding of test automation concepts and methods.

The skills for success

Platform Engineering, Agile Best Practices, User Experience Design, Compliance Management, Communication and Collaboration, Problem Solving, Attention to Detail, Mentoring and Coaching, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Containerisation, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.