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Job Description

The Future Begins Here

At Takeda, we are leading digital evolution and global transformation. By building innovative solutions and future-ready capabilities, we are meeting the need of patients, our people, and the planet.

Bengaluru, the city, which is India’s epicentre of Innovation, has been selected to be home to Takeda’s recently launched Innovation Capability Center. We invite you to join our digital transformation journey. In this role, you will have the opportunity to boost your skills and become the heart of an innovative engine that is contributing to global impact and improvement.  

At Takeda’s ICC we Unite in Diversity

Takeda is committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative workplace, where individuals are recognized for their backgrounds and abilities they bring to our company. We are continuously improving our collaborators journey in Takeda, and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. Here, you will feel welcomed, respected, and valued as an important contributor to our diverse team.

THE OPPORTUNITY  

 

As a Senior Scrum Master, you'll be dealing with more complex situations and you’ll need to work across functional units, and other teams, and upper levels of management. You can expect to work on a wide variety of situations involving more complex scaling factors and variations. In this role you will identify allies and coordinate with other teams to improve delivery of value to the customer. 

RESPONSIBILITIES  

 

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised with an emphasis on consistently improving and problem-solving. 

Solving unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business. 

Offer conceptual and innovative approaches to improve the organizational agility. 

Use expert agile knowledge to guide teams to utilize tools and practices for software development. 

Effectively lead the scrum team to achieve higher levels of scrum maturity. 

Guide, coach, and mentor more junior or aspiring Scrum Masters. 

Act as a trusted representative for the team in committees, coordinate with IT colleagues from other teams, and are SPOC for the product owner and release manager or other functions from the business. 

Deliver ongoing training for the team, product owners, developers, and testers to consolidate and support the future development of agile methods in the organization. 

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS  
 

Required 

Minimum 4 years of Scrum Master experience leading small-mid-sized agile teams 

Minimum 5 years of IT/SW delivery experience working in agile environment 

Has identifiable impact on results of the team and program or product levels 

Demonstrable experience to apply Scrum principles, practices, and theory of Scrum, Kanban, Agile Development and Integration 

Strong analytical skills to grasp complexities and identify relationships between problems, risks, issues, and solutions; ability to work with a team to reach a consensus 

Solid Team and Organizational coaching experience to realize benefits arising from Agile Principles, self-management, empowerment, incremental deliveries, and inter-team cooperation 

Ability to adapt to a changing environment 

Proven ability to continually build job knowledge & skills 

English language proficiency  

Preferred 

Has knowledge across several different agile disciplines  

Industry-recognized Agile and / or DevOps Qualifications  

Preferred University Technical Degree (or equivalent experience) 

Benefits:

It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:

Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus

Flexible work environment, including hybrid working

Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children

Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs

Employee Assistance Program

Broad Variety of learning platforms 

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs

Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone

Employee Referral Program

Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks) , Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 calendar days)

About ICC in Takeda

Takeda is leading a digital revolution. We’re not just transforming our company; we’re improving the lives of millions of patients who rely on our medicines every day.

As an organization, we are committed to our cloud-driven business transformation and believe the ICCs are the catalysts of change for our global organization.

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LocationsIND - Bengaluru

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time