AddressFunction: Digital & Technology
Location: Edinburgh (a mix of office and home working)
Salary: C£55,000 base depending on experience, plus full benefits listed below.
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 13th March 2024 Please note, that we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!
There’s so much more to HEINEKEN than meets the eye and right now, we’re looking for a Scrum Master to join our Digital & Technology team in Edinburgh.
Here within our Digital & Technology Agile Centre of Excellence team, we play a critical role in ensuring the delivery of a successful change portfolio within HEINEKEN. Our team are fascinated by future trends and captivated by technology. We’re naturally curious with a strong focus on delivering value to both our customers and our business.
“Join a diverse team, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape and deliver leading technologies for our customers and colleagues. Together, let’s continue to collaborate and promote the Agile mindset shift and its benefits within HEINEKEN UK” Danny, People Manager
About the role
We’re looking for a Scrum Master who is a hands-on, driven professional who forms part of a team focused on delivering value for HEINEKEN, using the Scrum framework. They’ll support the team so that they are productive, continuously learning, and focused on delivering value.
You’ll be key in supporting the effectiveness of the Product team, building a safe and trusting environment where issues/problems can be raised without fear of blame, and where mutual collaboration, self-management and problem-solving are emphasized. You’ll be taking a lead role to ensure excellent communication between the scrum team, and the business. You’re a supportive leader supporting the Product Owner and the business to achieve the strategic goals of the Product or Project mission.
You’re strong in stakeholder management, and able to support the Product Owner in forecasting, creating and clarifying goals and actions to achieve them. In all this you serve the team before considering yourself, tracking and removing obstacles and shielding the team from outside interactions
Who we’re looking for
You’re preferably an experienced Scrum Master, potentially with a proven background in Project Management or project delivery in an agile and waterfall environment. You’ll be a strong communicator, who’s able to hold together multiple teams and 3rd parties in a fast-paced environment. You’re excellent at conflict resolution and can coach, inspire and support your team members.
We are ideally looking for someone with experience in:
- Working in a complex development environment
- Applying Agile methodologies, preferably as part of a Scrum team (Agile certifications are advantageous)
- Working with remote teams (onshore and offshore)
- Delivering processes to enable change and deliver value
- Applying their continuous improvement mindset in everything they do
Assisting similar-sized organisations through Agile Transformation journeys
Our office sites operate a hybrid model. You’ll spend Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in the office and can work from home on Mondays and Fridays, although you’re more than welcome to come and work from the office on those days too.
Our benefits and rewards
- Annual bonus
- Company-funded Private Medical Healthcare
- Double-matched pension (up to 10%)
- 35 days holiday (holiday trading available)
- Retail discounts
- A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers (low and no alcohol options available)
- Unique learning and development opportunities
…And much more! Check out our Why Join Us page if you’d like more information.
You’ll also get the opportunity to join our colleague networks, in which people from across the business connect to help champion diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring we’re continuing to give people a voice.
The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early when we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!
If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example, if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk
You might feel that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, and that’s okay – we all need the opportunity to develop and untap our full potential.
If this advert piqued your interest, we’d encourage you to submit an application rather than ruling yourself out. You never know – you may be exactly what we’re looking for!
Who we are
We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.
It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no-alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.
When you join us, we’ll back you to reach your full potential. You’ll enjoy unique development opportunities, unforgettable experiences and a reward package that goes far beyond the salary you receive.
If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.
There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.
