Scrum Master (Fixed Term)

• Location: Budapest, Váci Greens

• Hybrid working

About the job

Acting as a senior scrum master within the Digital GBU Agile & Service Excellence organization, they play a critical role in working with Product Owners on critical commercial products.

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. Join our Digital GBU Agile & Scrum team as Scrum Master and you can help make it happen.

Main responsibilities:

• Serves as a servant leader and coach for a Pod/s.

• Works with Product Owners and Development teams on daily basis to drive execution.

• Helps steer team to maximize efficiency and productivity.

• Helps the Product Owner in his efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope.

• Facilitates pod ceremonies throughout each sprint (daily standup, sprint planning, sprint demos, retrospectives, and backlog refinements)

• Promotes and secures the right usage of principles, rules and practices of agile development.

• Educates the Pod in Scrum and, where relevant, Agile at scale practices.

They will be directly reporting to Head of DGBU Agile & Service Excellence.

About you

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) or equivalent certification required. Certified Scrum Professional (CSP) or Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) is a plus.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Scrum Master preferably in the life sciences industry.

• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.).

• Experience with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).

• Proven success in coaching Product Owners and teams to scale products across multiple countries and stakeholders. 

• Track-record of success as a Scrum Master/Agile Coach in complex environments. 

• Experience in working and domain knowledge relevant to commercial products. 

• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills.

• Proven ability to mentor and develop high-performing teams.

• Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills.

Job-Specific Skills & Competencies:

Lean & Agile practices (advanced)

Service Management (advanced)

Modern Operations & Continuous Improvement (advanced)

Portfolio Management (intermediate)

Financial Planning (intermediate)

Vendor Management (intermediate)

Strategy & Governance (intermediate)

Application Design & Integration (intermediate)

Compliance of Computerized Systems (intermediate)

Transversal Skills & Competencies:

Interpersonal Communication skills (advanced)

Transversal collaboration (advanced)

Critical Thinking (advanced)

Negotiation (advanced)

Decision Making (advanced)

Problem Solving (advanced)

Business Acumen (advanced)

Change Management (intermediate)

Business Partnership (intermediate)

Strategic Thinking (intermediate)

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