Are you a skilled & passionate Scrum Master who want to help us drive the digital transformation of Novo Nordisk? Would you like to be part of an agile core team for Novo Nordisk Global IT Operations (GITO) and to succeed with an ambitious agile transformation of our entire business process landscape? If it sounds exciting, you might be our new Scrum Master we are looking for to join our strong global community of more than 2400 skilled IT professionals, who are responsible for IT systems, services, and platforms in Novo Nordisk. The position is a maternity cover for 12 months. Apply today!  
What’s the role about? As a Scrum Master, you will become responsible for facilitating, coaching, and supporting one or more of our agile delivery teams in the Global IT Operations. You will be working both independently and in close collaboration with first and foremost the product owner(s) but also our business owners, Release Train Engineer, technical architects, and team members who is distributed globally. If you enjoy interacting with people, guiding your team in an inclusive and trusting manner, then you are probably a good candidate for the position. Your role as Scrum Master is important to Novo Nordisk. The agile way of working will have top priority and there is full support from senior management to implement, adapt, check, and adjust to agile principles and new ways of working. Your key tasks include:
• Being an agile champion for your team in the Infrastructure Product Area which means driving teams, vendors and customers in Novo Nordisk’s Agile way of working
• Acting as a change ambassador to drive the learning culture and the agile mindset in your agile teams
• Operation support
• Supporting your agile team members and Product Owner to reach their goals
• Keep track of and help solve impediments and escalate if necessary
• Helping the team to manage their progress via transparent backlog and board overviews, as well as preparing and aligning expectations before and during events

What are we looking for? As an ideal candidate you have:
• A bachelor (B.Sc.) or master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar
• Minimum 2-3 years of documented experience in agile methodologies
• Experience working within a SAFe framework, and know when to apply Kanban is an advantage
• Know-how in the infrastructure domain

As a person you are motivated by challenging assignments, you absorb new knowledge quickly, and you are always open for developing new competencies. Besides you are an active and engaged colleague who enjoys working closely with people and have a genuine interest in getting to know your colleagues in the Novo Nordisk GITO organization.
Independence, cross-cultural understanding, and fluency in written and spoken English are essential in combination with strong change management and communication skills. The team waiting for you The position is based in Global IT Operations (GITO) - an area with 200+ employees distributed across more than 25 countries, managing our infrastructure operations and digital workplace services. We work in a truly global organization based on agile principles, and continuously strive to improve our ways of working.
 
The GITO Strategy and Transformation department is a team of highly skilled and dedicated people. We are a team of 15 dedicated Scrum Masters, helping our agile teams in delivering on the features agreed at the PI’s. As a department, we have a strong focus on teamwork and collaboration, we are setting the direction in working with agile deliveries and coaching agile delivery teams, and we are embracing new ideas on how to successfully deliver and introduce new ways of working. We are on an exciting journey applying agile ways of working in our organization, and our work will be delivered according to the SAFe framework with agile teams running iterations. The Scrum Masters are key in ensuring good dynamics in the agile team and guiding the teams to working in the SAFe agile framework. We embrace diversity and find inspiration in new ways of thinking. We have a fun and collaborative working environment, where we share and celebrate our successes and openly discuss our challenges.
 
Why Novo Nordisk? Founded in Denmark in 1923, Novo Nordisk has become one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. At Novo Nordisk, we are committed to driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. To fulfil this purpose, we pioneer scientific breakthroughs, expand access to our medicines, and work to prevent and ultimately cure disease. That said, we are anything but linear.
With us, your skills, commitment, and ambition help us change patients’ lives worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a rewarding and purpose-driven culture with talented and diverse co-workers. Therefore, your professional and personal development is essential for us, and in Novo Nordisk, the sky is the limit for career opportunities.

Contact For further information, please reach out to the People Leader, Niels Colding on [email protected] or on +45 3075 2446.
 
Deadline  16th July 2023

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.