Scrum Master

This role is part of the Global Digital & Technology (D&T) department of HEINEKEN International and is located in Heineken HQ in Amsterdam. D&T is proud to bring cutting-edge innovation, strong technology, and advanced analytics to HEINEKEN. With speed and agility, we ensure HEINEKEN has the technological competitive advantages it needs to deliver on its ambition.

Your role at HEINEKEN

The Scrum Master is a hands-on, driven professional who is part of a product team. You will ensure the product team is fully functional, productive, continuously improving and focused on the sprint goals in terms of continuous improvement. You will support everyone involved with their individual skills to maximize the potential of the team. You support the team with organizational knowledge and advocates a strong agile culture and mindset within D&T and its stakeholders.

In this role, you will:

• Facilitating Agile practices and ceremonies: daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and other activities as needed;
• Promoting and demonstrating core principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility (being an ambassador);
• Ensuring a collaborative culture exists within the departments , its (external) development partners and their product teams, promoting team building and ensuring the entire team is engaged;
• Identifying and supporting the team with removing any impediments/distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to deliver against their commitments;
• Coaching the team in creating the product backlog, sprint backlogs and writing user stories in the most pragmatic way;
• Managing ‘Work In Progress Limits’, making sure the team is not working on too many stories/tasks at once, and helping them get into a flow of starting and completing work in a predictable manner;
• Working with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of agile ways of working in the organization.

Are we looking for you?

For Heineken the agile mind-set is centered on four principles; focus on customer value, power to the teams, start quick and smart and learn relentlessly. As an Agile Project Manager you own these principles and integrate them in the daily life. Self-reflection, adaptability, collaboration and resilience come natural to you and make you thrive in an Agile environment. Engaging with these characteristics and become more self-aware of personal strengths and weaknesses, makes majors strides in development of yourself and others.

As qualifications, our ideal candidate would have:

• You have Bachelor or Master’s degree;
• You are SCRUM certified;
• You have excellent communication skills, are able to manage and challenge your stakeholders;
• You are a coach, facilitator and leader aiming to increase team's performance, satisfaction and motivation;
• You have enough technical depth and affinity with the product to understand development and delivery issues within the team and judge their relative importance;
• Content knowledge; coding, testing, business analysis is a pre;
• You are able to work in fast paced environment, meet deadlines and perform at high standards.

What is in it for you?

At HEINEKEN, we have a proud reputation for the many career opportunities we offer our employees. Your career has the opportunity for being a unique journey, with a steep learning curve, across various brands, businesses or geographies. Next to a collaborative, international working environment, we will offer you a very rewarding salary and excellent secondary benefits.

This includes:

• An extensive and rewarding pension-plan;
• Various training courses as part of your personal development plan;
• A new phone and laptop;
• Employee discount for health insurances;
• Remuneration for travel expenses;
• Flexible working hours and the flexibility for working from home.

We are HEINEKEN

Our proud history as a family-owned, independent brewer stretches back 150 years. We brew the highest quality beers, build globally loved brands and strive to do both of these things as sustainably as possible.

With a larger global presence than any other brewer in the business, we’re able to draw strength from the diverse regions we operate in and sell to – driving consumer trends and opening up new market opportunities in the process.

No matter where our more than 84,000 global employees are based or what role they play, each one is driven by the same goals and united under the same values.

Embracing and celebrating diversity is core to HEINEKEN’s purpose of “brewing the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world”. We believe that people as diverse as our brews – including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, nationality, social background, disability and thinking style – enrich our lives and strengthen our business. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates as we champion a culture of belonging that provides fair and equal opportunities for all.

It’s what makes us proud to say We Are HEINEKEN.