Scrum Master

gsknch; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Haleon in Bengaluru, India is seeking a Scrum Master to enable successful delivery of digital products and platforms by leading Agile execution across multiple cross-functional teams. You will partner with Product Managers, Engineers and business stakeholders to drive predictable delivery and continuous improvement.

The role focuses on coaching teams to adopt Agile practices, removing impediments, and optimizing flow to accelerate value realization within enterprise data and analytics

Qualifications

• Experience leading Agile delivery of digital products and platforms.
• Ability to coordinate delivery across cross-functional teams and manage dependencies.
• Proven coaching of Product Owners and delivery stakeholders to improve Agile maturity.

Responsibilities

• Product & Programme Delivery Leadership: oversee delivery of complex digital initiatives from planning to release.
• Agile Delivery Execution & Team Enablement: facilitate planning, refinement, reviews and retrospectives; enable teams.
• Flow, Dependency & Impediment Management: identify and remove blockers to delivery.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum

Kanban

Lean

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Azure Data Platform

Databricks

Power BI

Job description

Welcome to Haleon. We're a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we've grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter - one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands - including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® - lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it's time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity - at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About the role

The Scrum Master is accountable for enabling the successful delivery of digital products, platforms, and programs by leading Agile execution across one or more cross-functional teams. This role combines Agile leadership, delivery management, product execution, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement to ensure teams consistently deliver high-quality business outcomes.

The Scrum Master partners with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Architects, Tribe Leads, and business stakeholders to drive predictable delivery, manage risks and dependencies, optimize flow, and accelerate value realization.

Beyond Agile facilitation, the Scrum Master acts as a delivery leader who ensures the successful execution of strategic initiatives while continuously improving team effectiveness and organizational agility.

Role purpose

To lead Agile delivery execution across products, platforms and programmes by enabling teams to plan effectively, manage dependencies, remove impediments, improve flow and deliver business outcomes predictably and sustainably.

Key Accountabilities

The Scrum Master is accountable for:

• Successful delivery of digital products, platforms, programmes and strategic initiatives within a Tribe, Value Stream or Product area. Improving team and cross-team delivery predictability, flow, quality and business value realization.
• Managing delivery risks, dependencies, impediments and constraints that impact committed outcomes.
• Enabling effective Agile planning, execution, inspection and adaptation cycles across one or more teams.
• Coaching teams, Product Owners and delivery stakeholders to build sustainable Agile delivery capability.
• Using metrics and evidence to drive continuous improvement, transparency and delivery decision-making.

Domain Expertise & Preferred Background

The ideal candidate will bring experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Azure Data Platform
• Databricks
• Data Engineering
• Enterprise Data Lakes and Data Warehousing
• Analytics Product Delivery
• Data Governance and Data Quality
• Business Intelligence and Power BI
• AI/ML Enabled Analytics Solutions
• Master Data and Enterprise Data Platforms
• Modern Data Architecture

Preferred experience from FMCG, Consumer Goods, Retail, Technology or Consulting organizations delivering enterprise Data & Analytics transformations.

Key role & responsibilities

1. Product & Programme Delivery Leadership

   Lead the delivery of complex digital products, platforms, programmes and transformation initiatives from planning through execution and release.

   Drive delivery against agreed business outcomes, product roadmap commitments, programme milestones and investment objectives.

   Ensure delivery plans are realistic, transparent and aligned to product priorities, team capacity and organizational constraints.

   Coordinate delivery across multiple squads, workstreams and enabling functions where outcomes span team or organizational boundaries.

   Support Quarterly Planning / PI Planning, release planning and other integrated planning cycles by improving readiness, scope clarity, dependency visibility and commitment confidence.

   Maintain clear delivery governance and transparency without creating unnecessary process overhead.

2. Agile Delivery Execution & Team Enablement

   Enable teams to operate effectively using Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Lean delivery practices suited to the context.

   Facilitate planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives and daily alignment as decision points that improve delivery outcomes, not as process rituals.

   Support Product Owners and Product Managers in backlog readiness, prioritization, sequencing and outcome alignment.

   Coach teams towards stronger ownership, accountability, self-management and delivery discipline.

   Help teams balance speed, quality, technical sustainability, operational resilience and measurable business value.

   Create an inclusive team environment that supports collaboration, constructive challenge and sustainable pace.

3. Flow, Dependency & Impediment Management

   Identify, manage and remove impediment