Scrum Master - Mumbai, India - M&G plc

M&G plc

Verified Company

Mumbai, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

We are M&G Global Services Private Limited (formerly known as 10FA India Private Limited, and prior to that Prudential Global Services Private Limited).

We are a fully owned subsidiary of the M&G plc group of companies, operating as a Global Capability Centre providing a range of value adding services to the Group since 2003.

The company has rapidly transformed itself into a powerhouse of capability that is playing an important role in M&G plc's ambition to be the best loved and most successful savings and investments company in the world.

Our diversified service offerings extending from Digital Services (Digital Engineering, AI, Advanced Analytics, RPA, and BI & Insights), Business Transformation, Management Consulting & Strategy, Finance, Actuarial, Quants, Research, Information Technology, Customer Service, Risk & Compliance and Audit provide our people with exciting career growth opportunities.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

Accountable for providing a quality service or product to customers and stakeholders
Enable the squad to deliver change at the pace and scale required for an organisation undertaking sustained transformation
Managing and motivating the team to ensure quality of delivery to customers and stakeholders
Demonstrate a solid understanding of product and business strategy and lead large and/or complex analysis initiatives impacting one or more teams
Prioritise and organise the backlogs to ensure the deliveries deliver value early, ensuring the operational processes are documented and accepted
Develop reporting processes and updates that can be used by the Leadership team to better steer the squad.
Create a seamless process encompassing delivery, releases and general planning exercises in conjunction with your peers.
Deliver and maintain delivery plans and timelines to the Stakeholders and delivery teams
Challenges upwards given knowledge of delivery and awareness of complex systems and the broader picture
Identifies and anticipates need for changes to continuously improve quality and efficiency of output
Be able to foresee, prevent, and mitigate risks and issues with delivery, to take fresh views and avoid rigid thought patterns
Ability to negotiate, influence and work with business peers and management to achieve the right outcomes
Support your team in making effective decisions, collaborate across silos, speak up and take personal accountability
Identifying and escalating both delivery and operational risks to the management team.

The role is ideally suited to someone who can:

Inspire the team to deliver exceptional performance by helping them to connect the purpose of their work, beyond the impact to the bottom line
Support the team to make effective decisions, collaborate across silos, speak up and take personal accountability
Be authentic, operate with integrity and encourage others to operate in a similar way
Develop strong relationships, with the team, understand them and their capabilities well, empower, stretch and support them to develop
Encourage the team to solve business problems creatively and collaboratively and question the status quo
Invite differing views and provide positive challenge to others
Be curious and insightful about customer's needs and supports the team to adapt to the changing environment
Help others to learn from their mistakes, does not wait for perfection before action, and drive continuous improvement personally and via the team
Simplify complexity for the team and reduce unnecessary bureaucracy
Prioritise people before process and recognise the needs and perspectives of customers and colleagues
Cut through complex issues and get to the heart of problems
Set clear priorities and expectations for others that guides the team to deliver over the next year
Use judgement and expertise to make rigorous, yet decisive and bold decisions and ensure they are delivered
Ensures the team operates in a customer focussed, commercial and efficient way and guide them to deliver against stretching targets
Set the bar high for the team, provide timely feedback and hold yourself and them to account
Oversee operational delivery and ensure controls are followed

Knowledge & Skills:

Proven project management and Scrum Master expertise.
Strong working experience using Agile and DevOps
Proactive selfstarter who can manage their own workload and can juggle multiple priorities at the same time
Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both written and orally, within a project team
Experience in data solutions, system integration, platform upgrades and migration activities
Strong coaching and mentoring ability
Strong conceptual and analytical skills, demonstrating outsidethebox problem solving skills, results oriented
Experience in project resource estimation
Experience in people management
Excellent Customer & stakeholder management skills