Scrum Master

Kornferry; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kornferry is seeking a Scrum Master in Pune for a 2-6 year experience range to drive agile project delivery within IT/software initiatives. You will partner with internal customers, vendors and senior leadership to develop and execute project plans, manage scope, and coordinate releases across teams.

The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of Scrum, Agile and SAFe, plus robust planning, risk management, and stakeholder management capabilities. Immediate joiners are preferred.

Qualifications

• Scrum/Agile knowledge and SAFe experience.
• Strong project planning and risk management.
• Stakeholder management and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops, analyzes and executes project plans, scope and schedule.
• Manages large IT/software projects with cross-functional teams.
• Monitors budgets, timelines and quality against plan.
• Coordinates release across multiple teams and ensures Definition Of Done.
• Communicates with internal customers, vendors, and senior management.
• Assists with vendor performance reviews and contract negotiations.

Skills

Scrum knowledge

Agile knowledge

SAFe

Project planning

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Conflict resolution

Job description

Scrum Master | 2-6 years | Pune

Job Summary

This individual contributor is primarily responsible for developing, analyzing and executing a project plan, scope as well as schedule, and working closely with internal customers, third party vendors and senior management. This Release Project Manager is primarily responsible for developing, analyzing and executing a software or IT project plan, scope as well as schedule, and working closely with internal customers, third party vendors and senior management.

Essential Responsibilities

• Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities. Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Manages large-scale projects from planning to completion.Develops, analyzes, and manages moderately complex project plans which include schedule, and resource forecast.
• Manages and monitors project financials for large projects.
• Monitors overall project performance (e.g., on time, on budget, within scope and with quality) against plan and makes adjustments as needed.
• Manages project activities related to organizational change management (e.g., development and execution of user adoption, implementation, and training plans) as defined by the project.
• Ensures adherence to established processes and policies (e.g. SDLC including domain standards, standards).
• Drives allocation of resources, establishes schedules, and task assignments to ensure proper project management practices are in place.
• Manages the work of own project team and ensures alignment of team member skills and strengths with project demands.
• Requests and manages internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project demands.
• Promotes project vision and objectives with project team.
• Delivers individual performance feedback to team members.
• Proactively monitors project risks by identifying risks and trigger events.
• Monitors the compliance of project plans by ensuring team members follow policies and procedures.
• Ensures the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse project stakeholders by building rapport with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management.
• Identifies and works closely with key stakeholders.
• Provides insight to key stakeholders and project sponsors by developing project goals, setting the prioritization of deliverables, discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for project delivery.
• Communicates tough issues to stakeholders and keeps an independent opinion.
• Assists with reviews of vendor performance levels and ensures service level agreements are met.
• Assists with contract negotiations with service vendors and reviews project invoices submitted by vendor for accuracy.
• Ability to do release co-ordintion between multple teams and hold teams accountable for Definition Of Done
• Be a great communicator and a leader who can make decisions basded on Release guidelines

Preferred candidate profile

Must Have

Scrum/Agile Knowledge, SAFe, Project planning, Risk Management, Project management frameworks (Scrum, Agile, SAFe) knowledge, scrum events, stakeholder management, conflict resolution

Good to Have

Knowledge of budgeting.

Immediate joiners or candidates who can come on board within 30 days are preferred.