Scrum Master

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Information Technology & Digital

In IT and D, you'll be a force for good, whether you're championing cyber security, defining how we harness the power of technology to improve our business, or working with data to guide the innovation of consumer loved products.

Working globally across functions, you'll own your projects and process from start to finish, with the influence and visibility to achieve what needs to be done. And if you're willing to bring your ideas to the table, you'll get the support and investment to make them happen.

Your potential will never be wasted. You'll get the space and support to take your development to the next level. Every day, there will be opportunities to learn from peers and leaders through working on exciting, varied projects with real impact. And because our work spans so many different businesses, from Research and Product Development to Sales, you'll keep learning exciting new approaches.

About The Role

Reporting to the IT&D Genesis Product Manager, the IT&D Genesis Scrum Master is responsible for enabling agile delivery across Genesis AI transformation initiatives within procurement. The role facilitates agile ceremonies, removes delivery impediments, and ensures product teams operate effectively to deliver AI and digital capabilities. The Scrum Master works closely with product owners, data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure work is prioritised and delivered iteratively. The role also supports scaling agile delivery practices across multiple Genesis workstreams.

Your responsibilities

Agile Delivery Enablement

Facilitate sprint planning, stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives

Support backlog refinement and prioritisation with product owners

Ensure teams maintain a predictable and sustainable delivery cadence

Track sprint progress and highlight risks

Impediment Removal

Identify and remove delivery blockers impacting team progress

Enable collaboration between engineering, data science, and business teams

Escalate cross-team delivery dependencies

Agile Coaching

Coach teams on agile principles and continuous improvement

Support adoption of agile best practices

Promote transparency and team accountability

Delivery Tracking & Reporting

Maintain sprint dashboards and delivery metrics

Track team velocity and delivery performance

Provide visibility of progress and risks to programme leadership

The experience we're looking for

Essential

Strong experience as Scrum master's in technology or transformation programmes

Strong understanding of Scrum and agile frameworks

Experience working with cross-functional teams including engineers and data scientists

Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills

Experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar agile tools

Desirable

Experience supporting AI or data platform delivery

Experience working in enterprise transformation programmes

Experience supporting scaled agile environments

Essential

Technical / Professional Qualifications

Over 8+ years of Strong experience using agile collaboration tools

Bachelor's degree in Technology, Engineering, Business, or related fiel

Desired

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent

Agile or Scaled Agile certifications

The skills for success

Scrum Master, Agile Methodologies (Scrum & Kanban), Sprint Planning & Facilitation, Backlog Refinement & Prioritisation, Stakeholder Management, Cross-functional Team Collaboration, Impediment & Risk Management, Agile Coaching & Mentoring, Delivery Tracking & Metrics (Velocity, Burndown), Jira / Azure DevOps Tools, Continuous Improvement Practices, AI / Data Project Delivery Understanding, Scaled Agile (SAFe) Knowledge, Communication & Facilitation Skills, Problem Solving & Decision Making

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always tick all the boxes. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.