Position: Scrum Master
Location: 200 E Randolph St Chicago IL USA 60601 (hybrid 2days to office)
Duration: 10 Months
Must Haves from manager:
- Food industry experience (non-negotiable).
- Operations focused innovation project management background
o Experience in supply chain development, factory engineering, or machinery related innovation delivery.
- Commercialization process knowledge
o Understand packaging changes, formula changes, feasibility constraints, machinery timelines.
- Agile project management experience (emphasis)
o 1 2 years running agile ceremonies and managing projects through sprints.
o Comfortable facilitating sprint events and creating review materials.
- Self-driven, proactive working style
o Able to identify stakeholders, processes, and solutions independently.
- Strong communication & relationship building skills
o Must navigate between technical and non technical teams, translating needs in both directions.
Scrum Master, Global Disruptive/Scale Innovation
About the Position
We re seeking a highly collaborative and proactive Scrum Master/Project Manager to join our cross-functional agile pod focused on driving innovation and growth in the Disruptive Innovation team. In this role, you ll be responsible for enabling and fit for purpose agile ways of working, removing barriers to progress, building timelines, and ensuring continuous delivery of high-impact solutions that are right-sized for our global innovation team.
This role will be embedded within a tight-knit team of R&D, Packaging, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and Strategy leads, all working together to bring the next big thing on innovation to the market faster and smarter.
Requirements:
- Bachelor s degree in Business, Engineering, or related.
- MUST HAVE: 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Project Management, in the Food & beverages industry.
- MUST HAVE: experience with physical product innovation in Food & Beverage with packaging projects, aligned with operations& manufacturing side: engineering, changing of machines, alignment with supply chain, etc.
- Strong knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies or proven experience in product development and commercialization
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Strong experience in building timelines for projects with uncertainty, that demands a lot of changes multiple times throughout the project.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Experience supporting test-and-learn innovation cycles or commercialization processes.
- Passion for team empowerment, iterative learning, and removing barriers to execution.
- Open to work flexible hours since part of the team is located in AMS start 7am Chicago time when needed.
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