Job Description

EMEA Scrum Master- Engineering & Applications

A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join the Kimberly Clark brand new Global Digital Technology Centre in Krakow as

Scrum Master

• You will own important work that will enable our organization to succeed in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and globally.
• If original thinking and a passion to build something new inspires you, come unleash your power at Kimberly-Clark!
• The Engineering & Applications Team is the IT Engine that delivers compelling and robust capabilities, products, and solutions to Kimberly-Clark’s business and IT by focusing on cost savings, business growth, as well as connecting with partners and customers.
• As part of this team, the Scrum Master could align to one or more Product Portfolios within a business function (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, HR/Legal, Marketing, Sales). 
• The Scrum Master will coordinate various scrum activities and ceremonies, support / serve the core Agile team and Product Owner, provide guidance in scrum leading practices, and communicate and resolve team impediments.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Guides team through sprint planning and execution
• Facilitates scrum ceremonies (Planning, Retrospective, Demo, Pre-planning, Stand-ups, Affinity sizing etc.)
• Supports Product Owner in creation, refinement, prioritization of the backlog elements and release planning
• Participates in scrum-of-scrums and discusses internal dependencies
• Recognizes, raises, and removes impediments proactively that prevent team from achieving sprint goals
• Drives continuous improvement of team to ensure that teams are always exploring on how to deliver value earlier and more often with higher quality
• Prioritizes workload and ensures appropriate sizing and standardization of user stories
• Determines the workload for the team and proactively manages the timeline and backlog on an ongoing basis
• Assesses the maturity of the scrum teams and helps the team mature at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable
• Provides agile team start-up coaching
• Tailors process for efficiency based on empirical learning
• In addition to traditional activities, the Scrum Master will also spend approximately 10% - 20% of their time performing project administrative activities including, but not limited to:
• Reporting on overall delivery status to program leadership and various stakeholders
• Maintaining cost plan and financial details
• Ensuring monthly estimates of costs, schedule, scope and resource requirements are agreed and maintained

We offer:

• Working for the global organization, with a long history and a great corporate culture that focus heavily on its people development
• An opportunity to take part in a digital transformation working with the newest, cutting edge technologies on solutions for the whole EMEA region

Attractive employment conditions:

- competitive salary

- benefits package, 

- private health care,

- premium brand-new office in the centre of Kraków,

- flexible work,

- great atmosphere

• Possibility to work in an international team with the best IT professionals from all over the world

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years relevant IT and Scrum Master experience
• Demonstrated success in a scrum master role for 3+ years for a software development team
• Proven skill in facilitation, continuous improvement, empowerment, transparency and servant leadership
• Has relevant business and application domain knowledge in their expected area (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, HR/Legal, Marketing, Sales). 
• Experience with Clarity or other project management suites is required
• Experience with various Agile approaches – Kanban, Scrum, XP, etc.
• Experience with Jira or other relevant agile tools is preferred
• Knowledge and experience with multiple Agile techniques, User Stories, TDD, DevOps/Continuous Integration, etc.