Location: Kuala Lumpur, MY
Global Business Unit: OTH
Job Function: Information Technology
Requisition Number: 219685
Job summary
As a Scrum Master, you are responsible for driving both delivery excellence and effective ways of working for one of DKSH’s Digital products in an Agile environment, in close partnership with Business and Technology. This role calls for a change agent with a strong Agile mindset, who looks beyond facilitating ceremonies to influence behaviors, decision‑making, and culture. You will apply Scrum with discipline, while flexing coaching approaches and practices based on product context and team maturity, with the objective of enabling high‑performing, outcome‑driven, and self‑managing teams.
General responsibilities
- Guides, mentors, and coaches Scrum Teams on Agile principles and practices to deliver high‑quality outcomes, not just outputs, with a strong focus on customer and business value
- Acts as a change agent, shaping mindset, behaviors, and culture by fostering psychological safety, accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement within and beyond the Scrum team
- Coaches teams towards becoming high‑performing and self‑managing, recognising strengths and areas for improvement, and applying appropriate coaching and development techniques to support team growth over time
- Ensures Scrum is well understood and applied with discipline, while adapting coaching approach and Agile practices based on product context, team maturity, and delivery needs, to progressively guide teams towards becoming high‑performing and self‑managing
- Facilitates and supports all Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review/Demo, Sprint Retrospective) with a strong emphasis on purpose, engagement, and actionable outcomes
- Identifies, removes, and escalates team‑level and systemic impediments, including organisational constraints, dependencies, unclear ownership or decision bottlenecks, working collaboratively with leaders and peers where required
- Communicates effectively across Scrum Teams, stakeholders, and partners to enable alignment, shared understanding, and informed decision‑making
- Coaches Product Owners, leaders, and stakeholders on Agile mindset, outcome‑based prioritisation, realistic planning and sustainable delivery practices
- Works with the Scrum team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision‑making and support organisational project or product teams running Agile Scrum
- Collaborates with a cross‑functional team of development, design, testing, research and business to deliver amazing experiences for the end‑user
- Contributes to the advancement of Agile maturity and ways of working across the organisation, sharing learnings and improvements beyond individual teams
- Works closely with the Product Owner to position the product as a strategic asset, supporting clarity of vision, prioritisation and value delivery while enabling effective Scrum execution
- Develops a strong understanding of business and technical domains to support meaningful discussions around user needs, trade‑offs, dependencies and delivery risks
- Keeps abreast of evolving best practices in Agile, product delivery and organisational agility, applying relevant insights to improve team and product outcomes
- Champions excellence by consistently shifting focus from activity and velocity to value, learning and impact
- Obsessed with excellence in delivering outcomes
Leadership responsibilities
- Leads by example in demonstrating Agile values, growth mindset, accountability and professionalism, setting a high standard for team behaviours and collaboration
- Acts as a trusted partner to Product Owners, Delivery Leads and stakeholders, providing guidance and challenge to support effective decision‑making and prioritisation
- Proactively surfaces risks, delivery concerns and organisational impediments early, framing issues clearly and constructively to enable timely leadership intervention
- Influences without formal authority, building credibility through expertise, consistency and sound judgment
- Creates an environment where teams feel safe to raise concerns, experiment, learn from failure and continuously improve
- Supports the development of Agile capability across teams by sharing practices, insights and lessons learned
- Demonstrates ownership for team health, delivery sustainability and ways of working
- Maintains a balanced view between delivery urgency and long‑term capability building, advocating for sustainable pace and quality
Functional skills and knowledge
- Strong hands‑on experience in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum and Kanban; Scrum or Agile certification preferred
- Deep understanding of Agile principles with the ability to apply them with structure while adapting coaching approaches to suit different product and team contexts
- Strong facilitation, coaching and problem‑solving skills across multiple levels of the organisation
- Proven ability to influence without formal authority, including coaching Product Owners, stakeholders and leaders
- Strong capabilities in backlog refinement, story slicing, estimation, retrospectives, flow management and delivery metrics, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement
- Ability to identify patterns, risks and root causes across teams and systems, rather than addressing symptoms in isolation
- Effective stakeholder management skills, including navigating ambiguity, competing priorities and delivery pressures
Soft skills
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence laterally and vertically with clarity and credibility
- High learning agility and comfort operating in complex, fast‑moving environments
- Courage to challenge existing ways of working constructively, while maintaining trust and strong relationships
- Highly people‑oriented, balancing empathy with accountability
- Calm, resilient and composed under pressure, particularly in environments undergoing change
- Collaborative by nature, with a strong sense of ownership for both team health and delivery outcomes
- Able to perform effectively in high‑volume, high‑velocity environments while maintaining sustainable ways of working