{"id":1209438,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mccormick-scrum-master","title":"Scrum Master","company":{"id":1761649,"name":"McCormick","domain":"mccormick.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mccormick-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Kanban","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-15T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-15","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T15:44:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"...\nAt McCormick, we bring our passion for flavor to work each day. We encourage growth, respect everyone's contributions and do what's right for our business, our people, our communities and our planet. Join us on our quest to make every meal and moment better.\nFounded in Baltimore, MD in 1889 in a room and a cellar by 25-year-old Willoughby McCormick with three employees, McCormick is a global leader in flavour. With over 14,000 employees around the world and more than $6 Billion in annual sales, the Company manufactures, markets, and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavourful products to the entire food industry, retail outlets, food manufactures, food service businesses and consumers.\nWhile our global headquarters are in the Baltimore, Maryland, USA area, McCormick operates and serves customers from nearly 60 locations in 25 countries and 170 markets in Asia-Pacific, China, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and the Americas, including North, South and Central America\nPosition Overview\nThe key purpose of the SCRUM Master is to reinforce and refine agile/scrum ways of working and business processes throughout project life cycles within the Data, Analytics, and Automation team. This role is responsible for ensuring each delivery team runs efficient sprint planning meetings, facilitates sprint retrospectives, and works closely with the Director of Enterprise Digital Transformation & Value Realization. This role operates at the heart of the DAA team, maximizing the project prioritization efficiency and ensuring timely development and management of data-related solutions to deliver value in line with the business’s strategy. This role involves a combination of Scrum management experience, business acumen, technical knowledge, and leadership skills\nKey Responsibilities\nAgile Delivery & Execution\nFacilitate effective Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, backlog refinement and other Agile ceremonies.\nPartner with Product Owners to ensure backlogs are appropriately prioritized, refined, and ready for execution.\nEstablish and maintain delivery rhythms that enable teams to meet Sprint and release commitments.\nMonitor progress, identify delivery risks and proactively address issues before they impact business outcomes\nEnsure teams maintain appropriate Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, and quality standards.\nTrack delivery against milestones, commitments, capacity, and dependencies.\nHelp teams translate strategic priorities into actionable increments of work.\nProtect the team from unnecessary disruption while maintaining transparency with stakeholders.\nTeam Coaching & Agile Ways of Working\nServe as a servant leader and Agile coach, helping teams become increasingly self-organizing, accountable, and high performing.\nCoach team members, Product Owners and stakeholders on Agile principles, Scrum practices and effective collaboration.\nIdentify behaviors, processes or organizational conditions that inhibit team performance and work with leaders to address them.\nFoster an environment of psychological safety, transparency, accountability, and constructive challenge.\nFacilitate healthy conflict resolution and improve team communication and collaboration.\nAdapt Agile practices to the needs and maturity of the team while maintaining the principles of Agile.\nMentor less-experienced team members and contribute to the broader Agile community of practice\nStakeholder & Dependency Management\nEstablish strong relationships with Product Owners, business leaders, technology teams and other key stakeholders.\nIdentify and actively manage cross-team, functional and organizational dependencies.\nSurface impediments that require leadership intervention and drive them toward resolution.\nProvide clear, concise visibility into delivery status, risks, issues, dependencies and decisions.\nFacilitate alignment between business priorities and team execution.\nCoordinate with other Scrum Masters, Program Managers and Product Managers where work spans multiple Agile teams.\nHelp stakeholders understand Agile delivery models, expectations, trade-offs and appropriate engagement points\nContinuous Improvement & Performance Management\nUse retrospectives, delivery metrics and team feedback to identify opportunities for improvement.\nEstablish meaningful Agile metrics such as velocity trends, cycle time, throughput, predictability, Sprint completion and impediment aging.\nAnalyze delivery data to identify patterns and recommend actionable improvements.\nLead teams in developing and executing measurable improvement actions.\nContinuously assess team maturity and adapt coaching approaches accordingly.\nPromote experimentation and learning rather than rigid adherence to process.\nIdentify systemic issues that extend beyond the team and escalate them appropriately\nAgile Governance, Planning & Organizational Enablement\nSupport quarterly and release planning activities and provide delivery insights to program and portfolio leadership.\nContribute to Agile governance and enterprise delivery standards.\nEnsure appropriate visibility and documentation of commitments, risks, dependencies and outcomes.\nPartner with leadership to improve organizational Agile maturity and remove systemic barriers to effective delivery.\nParticipate in Agile transformation initiatives, communities of practice and methodology improvements.\nHelp establish scalable Agile practices across multiple delivery teams and programs.\nEnsure Agile execution remains connected to measurable business value rather than process compliance alone\nSecondary Responsibilities\nAbility to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, develop CI project goals, and drive team efficiency by applying the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about successful project completion\nRequired Qualifications\nLevel of Education and Discipline- Bachelors in business, project management, Data Analytics, Data Science, Business Information Technology or related field\nExperience - functional/industry/commercial knowledge, business acumen\n6-8 years of experience in Agile delivery, Scrum Master, Program Management, Product Management, Technology or Digital Transformation roles.\nDemonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master for complex, cross-functional Agile teams.\nStrong understanding of Scrum, Kanban and broader Agile principles.\nExperience working with Product Owners, technology teams, business stakeholders and senior leadership.\nProven ability to remove organizational impediments and manage complex dependencies\nStrong facilitation, coaching, conflict-resolution and stakeholder-management skills.\nExperience using Agile delivery metrics and tools, specifically Azure DevOps or equivalent platforms.\nAbility to operate effectively in a matrixed, global enterprise environment.\nStrong written, verbal and executive communication skills. Demonstrated ability to proactively solve problems and multi-task.\nLearn and execute continuous improvement initiatives to improve systems and ways of working. \nInterpersonal Skills - leadership, interactions, communication, influence\nWork closely with functional leadership teams.\nAbility to manage up and mentor peers\nMaintain a sense of urgency to meet scheduling plans and customer requirements.\nAbility to use a systemic approach and tools to identify and drive business value.\nOther Skills and HPO Competencies\nBusiness acumen.\nStrong business perspective; able to merge business questions/needs with available data to provide data-driven insights\nPreferred Qualifications\nCertification and/or Licenses- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Scrum Master or equivalent.\nExperience - functional/industry/commercial knowledge, business acumen-\nExperience with Agile at Scale, SAFe or other enterprise Agile frameworks.\nExperience supporting digital transformation, data/analytics, technology or product development.\nExperience managing multiple interconnected Agile teams or complex programs.\nExperience coaching organizations transitioning from traditional project delivery to Agile product-oriented delivery.\nDimension\nFacilitate agile ways of working for a global team of ~50 operating across India, EMEA, and the US\nAt McCormick, we have over a 100-year legacy based on our “Power of People” principle. 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