Scrum Master

Serve as a servant leader and Agile coach, helping teams become increasingly self-organizing, accountable, and high performing.

Coach team members, Product Owners and stakeholders on Agile principles, Scrum practices and effective collaboration.

Identify behaviors, processes or organizational conditions that inhibit team performance and work with leaders to address them.

Foster an environment of psychological safety, transparency, accountability, and constructive challenge.

Facilitate healthy conflict resolution and improve team communication and collaboration.

Adapt Agile practices to the needs and maturity of the team while maintaining the principles of Agile.

Mentor less-experienced team members and contribute to the broader Agile community of practice

Establish strong relationships with Product Owners, business leaders, technology teams and other key stakeholders.

Identify and actively manage cross-team, functional and organizational dependencies.

Surface impediments that require leadership intervention and drive them toward resolution.

Provide clear, concise visibility into delivery status, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.

Facilitate alignment between business priorities and team execution.

Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, Program Managers and Product Managers where work spans multiple Agile teams.

Help stakeholders understand Agile delivery models, expectations, trade-offs and appropriate engagement points

Use retrospectives, delivery metrics and team feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.

Establish meaningful Agile metrics such as velocity trends, cycle time, throughput, predictability, Sprint completion and impediment aging.

Analyze delivery data to identify patterns and recommend actionable improvements.

Lead teams in developing and executing measurable improvement actions.

Continuously assess team maturity and adapt coaching approaches accordingly.

Promote experimentation and learning rather than rigid adherence to process.

Identify systemic issues that extend beyond the team and escalate them appropriately

Support quarterly and release planning activities and provide delivery insights to program and portfolio leadership.

Contribute to Agile governance and enterprise delivery standards.

Ensure appropriate visibility and documentation of commitments, risks, dependencies and outcomes.

Partner with leadership to improve organizational Agile maturity and remove systemic barriers to effective delivery.

Participate in Agile transformation initiatives, communities of practice and methodology improvements.

Help establish scalable Agile practices across multiple delivery teams and programs.

Ensure Agile execution remains connected to measurable business value rather than process compliance alone

Secondary Responsibilities

Ability to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, develop CI project goals, and drive team efficiency by applying the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about successful project completion

Required Qualifications

Level of Education and Discipline- Bachelors in business, project management, Data Analytics, Data Science, Business Information Technology or related field

Experience - functional/industry/commercial knowledge, business acumen

6–8 years of experience in Agile delivery, Scrum Master, Program Management, Product Management, Technology or Digital Transformation roles.

Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master for complex, cross-functional Agile teams.

Strong understanding of Scrum, Kanban and broader Agile principles.

Experience working with Product Owners, technology teams, business stakeholders and senior leadership.

Proven ability to remove organizational impediments and manage complex dependencies

Strong facilitation, coaching, conflict-resolution and stakeholder-management skills.

Experience using Agile delivery metrics and tools, specifically Azure DevOps or equivalent platforms.

Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, global enterprise environment.

Strong written, verbal and executive communication skills. Demonstrated ability to proactively solve problems and multi-task.

Learn and execute continuous improvement initiatives to improve systems and ways of working.

Interpersonal Skills - leadership, interactions, communication, influence

Work closely with functional leadership teams.

Ability to manage up and mentor peers

Maintain a sense of urgency to meet scheduling plans and customer requirements.

Ability to use a systemic approach and tools to identify and drive business value.

Other Skills and HPO Competencies

Business acumen.

Strong business perspective; able to merge business questions/needs with available data to provide data-driven insights

Preferred Qualifications

Certification and/or Licenses- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master or equivalent.

Experience - functional/industry/commercial knowledge, business acumen-

Experience with Agile at Scale, SAFe or other enterprise Agile frameworks.

Experience supporting digital transformation, data/analytics, technology or product development.

Experience managing multiple interconnected Agile teams or complex programs.

Experience coaching organizations transitioning from traditional project delivery to Agile product-oriented delivery.

Dimension

Facilitate agile ways of working for a global team of ~50 operating across India, EMEA, and the US

At McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. This principle fosters an unusually dedicated workforce requiring a culture of respect, recognition, inclusion and collaboration based on the highest ethical value

As a McCormick employee you’ll be empowered to focus on more than your individual responsibilities. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself—to have a say in where the company is going and how it’s growing.

Between our passion for flavor, our 130-year history of leadership and integrity, the competitive and comprehensive benefits we offer, and our culture, which is built on respect and opportunities for growth, there are many reasons to join us at McCormick.