Ahold Delhaize is one of the world's largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-Commerce. Its family of great, local brands serves more than 50 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Together, these brands employ more than 420,000 associates in more than 7,000 grocery and specialty stores. Our Global Support Office (GSO) is based in Zaandam in the Netherlands, but GSO associates also work in all the countries we serve. This team supports all our great local brands in finance, HR, IT, legal, communications, sustainable retailing, and other key functions. . 

Specialist Scrum Master People Development

The Scrum master is a facilitator, coach, and impediment solver. The focus is on what the teams in the area deliver in terms of value. Together with the Tech lead, you oversee and monitor the progress of the area, ensuring that valuable digital solutions are consistently delivered that meet high-quality standards. Besides focusing on the area level, you are directly involved with one or more teams in the scrum process, enabling you to bridge the gap between the teams and the stakeholders.

You possess the necessary technical knowledge; thus, you take a leading role in technological innovations and improvements. You have adequate coding knowledge and the surrounding processes to continuously improve the quality and quantity of the entire development process. You have various crucial roles, from servant leader to technical facilitator. Finally, you are a facilitator and driver of the Scrum Guild in the Area. Together with the Tech Leads, you ensure a continuous focus on improving the way of working and the technology in the area and the teams. With the Guild, you ensure there are platforms for knowledge sharing and development of the teams and area/product Cluster.

This involves:

• Facilitator, coach & impediment solver
• Technical improvements and innovations
• Building high performing teams
• Change agent
• Value Stream Management/Business Value
• DevOps

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 19 strong local retail brands all over the world, we aim to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our employees thrive.

Key responsibilities of your role

Your role is highly diverse and encompasses various responsibilities. Here are the key ones:

• Facilitate various meetings at the area level, such as Short Cycle Planning and Area Sync.
• Additionally, facilitate technical meetings and use your technical knowledge to pinpoint issues.
• As a coach & Agile guru, you promote an Agile Way of Working & mindset for various
• stakeholders (Management, Product Owners, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and teams).
• Identify technical problems and guiding teams towards a solution.
• Involved with one or more teams in the scrum process and help the team on their journey to becoming “High Performing”.
• Identify and sense where there is room for technical improvements. You take the lead in this and know how to get the right people on board.
• Broadly aware of the architecture.
• Involved in processes such as code reviews, deployments, and coding. You know how to optimize and improve these processes.
• With your technical & people knowledge, you coach and advise teams. You understand the context of the work and are able to stimulate autonomy within the teams. Your technical background allows you to facilitate more effectively and enrich discussions.

• You act as a triage for issues and questions before they are assigned to DevOps Engineers.
• Speak the language of DevOps Engineers and can empathize with their perspective.
• Act as a third eye for the team and challenge them on their substantive choices.
• You ensure that DevOps engineers can focus on developing and managing software. This means you assist with tasks that encompass more than just programming.
• You enable teams to continuously grow. You understand the dynamics and environment of the team and its members.
• You create an engineering-focused culture. An environment where teams deliver features that meet high-quality standards.
• You act autonomously, identify opportunities and challenges, develop an action plan, and execute it.

• You coach and guide teams to create business & customer value. One of your main focuses is constantly improving the quantity & quality delivered by the teams.
• You ensure good collaboration between teams, Product Owners, and other stakeholders such as Architects and Business Owners.
• You guide the short cycle planning, ensuring that dependencies and risks are well mapped out for the various business topics.
• Teams are responsible for the entire life cycle of the product. You help the team take ownership of the product.
• You ensure that data flow is used to set priorities and make the right decisions by the Product Owner or the team.
• You arrange support with the team for the availability and performance of the product or service.
• You ensure, together with the team, that a good DevOps flow is set up whereas many processes as possible, such as build, deployments, testing, etc., are automated.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; a hybrid working model (we ask you to spend at least 50% of your working time at the office); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Requirements

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree Business Administration/Business Economics or comparable study
• 5-7 years of relevant experience
• Experience in Agile portfolio management
• Knowledge and experience with agile frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum,
• XP, and product- and project portfolio management
• Extensive knowledge of processes, methods, structures and cultures
• within business and IT/Technology-organizations
• Expert knowledge regarding IT-governance and (project) portfolio management
• Strong verbal, written and presentation skills

Apply now!
Are you keen to join the team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. Apply now via the button on this page.

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