ROLE SUMMARY

The Scrum Master is accountable for ensuring Product Owners and Scrum Teams maximize the outcomes for customers by way of business value of products within the team.  This role is responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles, follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use for continuous delivery of value through products, processes and/or solutions.

Working with a talented team of functional/technical experts, they are key proponents of Agile practices and values, using these to help drive forward the program of digital transformation that empowers Pfizer’s customer-oriented vision. This position requires an individual with a proven ability to lead/coach teams across a variety of technologies, delivering solutions that meet and exceed stakeholder expectations.

What You Will Achieve

As a Senior Associate, your knowledge and skills will contribute towards the goals and objectives of the team.  Your focus and ability to meet team targets will help in completing critical deliverables. Your innovative use of communication tools and techniques will facilitate in explaining difficult issues and establishing consensus between teams.

It is your hard work and dedication that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The objectives & outcomes the Scrum Master contribute to are often complex in nature. To ensure their success, they are responsible to: 

• Plan scrum implementations effectively, ensuring that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team.
• Lead and coordinate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Coach Product Owners, helping them create clear and concise Product Backlog Items, ensuring they know how to arrange the Product Backlog to maximize value.
• Understand the functional/technical requirements for successful outcomes and provide leadership to the functional/technical team, helping them to solve some of the more complex challenges while fostering a collaborative, knowledge sharing environment.
• Establish an environment where the Scrum team can be as effective as possible, addressing behaviors and team dynamics, and ensuring a good relationship between the scrum team, product owner and related stakeholders.
• Support the Scrum team in maintaining a steady delivery rate, protecting them from outside interruptions, and removing impediments to their progress.
• Actively promote Scrum within the organization, working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness/adoption of Scrum.
• Lean/Agile leader – Helps the team embrace agile core values, adopt and apply those principles, and implementation practices.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 3-5 years of experience as a Scrum Master or similar position, working with functional/technical teams of contract or colleague resources
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to establish relationships, influence outcomes, and deliver effective presentations to a variety of audiences.
• Excellent skills in planning, analysis, oral and written communication, consensus building, facilitation, negotiation, and the ability to readily learn a new business area.
• Proven capability leading projects in an Agile/DevOps environment 
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications to create and manage spreadsheets, tables and presentations
• Strong organizational and time-management skills and ability to effectively manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Analytical skills and can understand and interpret data
• Attention to details and self-starter who continually strives to improve performance and business processes

Nice-to-Have

• Bachelor’s degree in a business, finance or related field; MBA, CPA and/or project management credential (ie PMP, 6 Sigma) preferred
• Familiarity with Atlassian Jira (or equivalent tools) is a plus
• Knowledge/experience in the healthcare/pharmaceutical industry a plus

  
Work Location Assignment: Flexible

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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