Are you an experienced & skilled Scrum Master who wants 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 help us succeed with a continuous ambitious agile transformation of our Global IT Operations area?

We are on an exciting digital journey, so we are looking for senior and experienced Scrum Masters to join our global community of more than 2400 skilled IT professionals, who are responsible for IT systems, services, and platforms in Novo Nordisk. Apply today!

What’s the role about?
As a Senior Scrum Master, you will be responsible for facilitating, coaching, and supporting our agile teams in Global IT Operations. You will be working both independently or in close collaboration with other team members, and other Scrum Masters that are distributed globally. Your role as Senior Scrum Master is important to Novo Nordisk. The team is currently growing and new and exciting projects are currently on the road map. You will play a key role in making a difference for the team, ensure ways of working and support Novo Nordisk in their ambitious plan to help even more patients globally.
The agile ways of working will have top priority and there is full support from senior management to implement, adapt, check, and adjust to agile principles and introducing new ways of working.

Your key tasks include:
• Being an agile champion for your team 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
• Supporting your agile team members to reach their goals
• Keeping 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
• Actively participating in the Scrum Master community of practice and the Scrum Master community in the ART

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
• At least 5 years of Scrum Master experience, in enterprise environments
• Experience working within a SAFe framework and knowledge on when to applying Kanban
• Strong change management and communication skills, with focus on leading teams to delivery excellence
• Fluency in written and spoken English As a person you are motivated by challenging assignments, you absorb new knowledge quickly, and you are always open for developing new competencies. Additionally, 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 and cross-cultural understanding, are essential.

The team waiting for you
We are situated in our new IT hub in Ballerup, together with around 900 other colleagues in the Digital Data & IT (DD&IT) area.
The position is based in Global IT Operations (GITO) - an area with 400+ 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 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.

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 
27 May 2024

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.