Senior Scrum Master - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Royal London Group

Royal London Group
Royal London Group
Verified Company
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Job Title:
Senior Scrum Master


Contract Type:
Permanent


Location:
Edinburgh or Alderley Edge


Working style:
Hybrid 50% home/office based


Closing date: 10th March 2024

Group Transformation aims to be a catalyst for change, to drive innovation and operational excellence within Royal London. We bring together colleagues from Change, Procurement, Workplace, Rectifications and Data Management.

We work across Royal London to deliver the Group's strategic ambitions.

In partnership with the different business areas, we work to embed agility, adaptability and customer/colleague focus to deliver sustainable growth.

We make sure that we deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from, and we also make sure we get the best value from all of our procurement interactions.

As a Senior Scrum Master you will support the Head of Change to deliver change initiatives.

Alongside other team you will help shape the work and metrics to improve the team performance to drive up self-organisation and self-management.


As part of the Group Transformation function you will also help us to adopt a more open and inquisitive approach to innovation, drive cross-functional efficiency, and improve the effectiveness and value delivered from change execution, including the adoption of agile mindset, values, principles, processes, and tools.

About the role

Champion the agile values, principles and tools and strive to build organisational agility
Take responsibility for the Scrum Masters in the portfolio to ensure that they deliver the business outcomes and follow the agile best practice and standards
Enable the coordination of agility at scale, involving the work of multiple teams to ensure the initiative delivery is optimised
Drive Scrum teams to successful delivery by focusing on the goal, leveraging agile practices, processes, tools and techniques
Ability to influence, coach and train others on agile adoption and best practice

About you

Experience of agile values, principles and practices and how these are best applied against the organisational context
Experience of leading teams
Eperienced in people management and development
Highly competent in using tools such as ADO, Jira, Confluence to aid planning, reporting and experienced in implementing metrics reporting
Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and team performance


Mastery in one of the following areas of agility:
Technical - background in agile scaling patterns or structures
Architecture - designing, coding, test engineering or dev ops with the knowledge to promote technical craftsmanship and to support the teams in solving technical challenges through example and thought leadership
Transformation - ability to facilitate, catalyse and (as appropriate) lead organisational change and transformation.

About Royal London


We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.


We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London.

Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.

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