Scrum Master

Are you passionate about leading an Agile Product Team to achieve its goals through fostering team collaboration, driving agile practices and relentless improvement? Do you have a good understanding and a curiosity towards technology? Are you ready to be part of a high-performing team in one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies? If so, then you might be the Scrum Master we are looking for in the Process Automation Solutions team!

The Position

As a Scrum Master at Novo Nordisk, your key responsibilities will be to:

• Facilitate your product team’s overall effectiveness.
• Be a coach and demonstrate servant leadership for the product team.
• Keep track of and help solve impediments and escalate, if necessary.
• Help the product team manage their progress via transparent backlog and board overviews.
• Help the product team and other roles prepare and align expectations with stakeholders.
• Coach the product team towards autonomy and self-management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Product Supply and DD&IT organizations.
• Coach Product Management and Product Ownership.
• Continuously mature our ways of working to have a positive impact on the overall well-being of your product team, the quality and value of delivery.
• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to share best practices and improve the visibility and impact of Agile ways of working for our context.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning as a daily habit practiced by everyone.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who has:

• Relevant master’s degree in IT Software Engineering, Engineering, Communication, Business or similar in experience
• 3-5 years of experience in delivering IT projects.
• CSM, PSM or equivalent Agile certification.
• Proven experience delivering digital solutions within Agile frameworks.
• Good facilitation skills.
• Fluent in oral and written English.
• Knowledge and experience within a regulated industry will be an advantage.
• Knowledge within Product Management will be a plus.
• Experience using MS Azure DevOps will be an advantage.
• Experience delivering digital solutions developed on low-code (e.g. MS Power Platform), custom code (e.g. Python, C#) and Cloud platforms (e.g. MS Azure) will be a plus.

As a Scrum Master, you are an ambitious and innovative team player who approaches tasks with structure, energy, curiosity, and a positive attitude. You have a flair for collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders and are passionate about powering digital transformation across the entire value chain. You possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with strong problem-solving skills.

About the Department

The team is anchored in Digital, Data & IT Product Supply (DD&IT PS), an organisation of +800 employees driving implementation and operation of IT/OT on Novo Nordisk manufacturing facilities globally. Joining DD&IT, makes you step into a global community of 2100+ colleagues, driving digital, data, and IT across Novo Nordisk.

You will be a part of the Process Automation Solutions team within the DD&IT PS Technology Partnering department.
Our team’s mission is to deliver digital solutions supporting processes across the Product Supply value chain. PS is the largest organizational unit in Novo Nordisk, being responsible for the full supply chain of all Novo Nordisk products.

Our team is responsible for delivering digital solutions based on business challenges and opportunities coming from the PS Line of Business. We start by understanding our user needs, constructively challenge their assumptions, and redefine their problems to create innovative and sustainable solutions.

We are a high-performing, international, and diverse unit that is driven by exploring, digitalizing, and automating business challenges with technology.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that.    

We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 60,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk. 

If you want to learn more about how Novo Nordisk leads visions to real-life solutions that make a real-life impact, go explore on Novo Nordisk TechLife.

Contact

For further information, please contact the Head of Process Automation Solutions, Klaudia Tyczynska, at [email protected].

Deadline

2 February 2025

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We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.