SCRUM Master

Opportunity

My name is Ekaterina Riegels Hjorth, Head of Business Engagement and Delivery, and I am looking for a Scrum Master to join Svitzer in a newly established role.

You will have an exciting chance to become a part of my team in the Business Engagement and Delivery function.

Are you passionate about solving complex business problems and building innovative digital solutions? Do you enjoy leading Agile product development teams and supporting Product Owners? Do you thrive with opportunities to truly bringing products to life that have strategic impact for our company and our customers? Do you want to work for a truly international company? Then this role might be something for you.

As a Scrum Master you are an expert facilitator that helps bring the technical and business side of product development together. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of both our business and the products allowing you to guide the Scrum team and help remove obstacles and ensure that these are well anchored in our Business Engagement and Delivery team. With your knowledge on the technical side of product development, you will be a strong partner for the product owners, and you will together ensure to define a balanced product backlog that aligns with the business needs, architecture, design, and delivery towards business goals. Initially, you are expected to be a Scrum Master for two products.

We offer

Svitzer is a global towage company, which means we help our customers maneuver their larger ships safely and timely in and out of port. Most of our business is to support container vessels, cargo ships, cruise ships and navy vessels but we also attend to emergencies like vessels being adrift or offshore fires.

Svitzer Technology is a strong partner to the business and key in making the operations run efficiently and to innovate the future of Svitzer. We are dedicated to transforming Svitzer to be fit for the future, and we work across the portfolio of projects and have a central role in the transformation of our company.

As our new Scrum Master, you will be part of a team that drives IT project delivery and change across Svitzer. In collaboration with Scrum Teams and Product Owners from Commercial and/or Operations you will be creating products to drive operational efficiency as well as products to support our future strategy of taking a lead in our industry within decarbonization. In this role you will get an outstanding opportunity for developing our Technology organization further with regards to product development, agile ways of working and shaping this further together with our team and I.

Key responsibilities

• Run sprint planning, sprint retrospective, daily scrum, and other scrum events.
• Work with product owner to refine backlog.
• Forecast sprint iterations with the product owner and concerned business partners to better understand dependencies between tasks and teams.
• Guide the team on how to self-organize, prioritize, plan and execute product development
• Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on problem solving in a collaborative way.
• Facilitate discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution between sprint team members and product owners.
• Ability to work independently and manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks
• Work with various stakeholders and promote collaboration
• Shield sprint teams from outside distractions and help remove obstacles that may impede the team from meeting goals
• Coach the Team Members on Agile principles and Values and on Scrum practices
• Communicate with other teams and management on project progress and dependency handling and ensure the transparency of the team
• Ability to think strategically and act tactically
  

We are looking for

We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering change, empowering people, and working alongside a strong Technology team in making Svitzer’s vision for growth, standardization, and efficiency come to life.

You are a certified Scrum Master and have solid experience within the field. You can demonstrate understanding of various agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and have hands on experience where you have worked with one or more products as a Scrum Master.

Experience in Product Development Tools such as Azure DevOps is preferred. You are organized and have experience with building plans and roadmaps.

You are creative, have excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artefacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement), and have a demonstrated ability leading agile delivery.

You encourage a team and work in a collaborative manner with all stakeholders using your excellent interpersonal relationship development skills. It is important you communicate in a clear, concise, professional, and direct way and are fluent in English.

Please note, some business travel must be expected.

Building a Diverse Workplace

In Svitzer we value the diversity of our talent and will always strive to recruit the best person for the job – we value diversity in all its forms, including but not limited to gender, age, nationality, race, sexual orientation, disability, or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that members from some under-represented groups are less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every single qualification. At Svitzer we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles, and we are excited about hearing from you!

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