Job Description

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Position Title: Scrum Master

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time \xe2\x80\x8b

Position Location: Toronto HQ

Requisition ID: 24481

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We know the importance that food plays in people\'s lives - the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people\'s lives through great tasting food, in a way which reflects our values. McCain has recently committed to implementing regenerative agriculture practices across 100 percent of our potato acreage by 2030. Ask us more about our commitment to sustainability.

OVERVIEW

McCain is embarking on a digital transformation. As part of this transformation, we are making significant investments into our data systems, structures and policies, and building digital products for our customers, key suppliers and McCain team members to enable digital processes and data-driven automation over time.

Our Technology team\'s goal is to inspire growth through innovative technology experiences. Our digital teams are key to deliver this ambition. McCain has established digital teams in Agriculture and Commercial and we are now looking forward to expanding our investments in Operations.

PURPOSE

Working closely with the different product owners and the Digital Manufacturing team, as well as related subject matter expect, this role is instrumental in driving the development and execution of Digital products. The Scrum Master will work directly with the digital Manufacturing team to advise and oversee performance against Agile values, practices, and processes. Working with the Product Owner, this role will support the work by maintaining the backlog and facilitating Agile ceremonies like stand ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives. The Scrum Master will monitor team performance through the dashboards and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work better and smarter

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Coordinate beyond team

• Coordinate with other Scrum Masters in the Scrum-of-Scrums
• Align dependencies with other team members
• Support POs with roadmapping and radiating the roadmap and priorities across other teams
• Help to continuously improve the cross-team ceremonies and artefacts to coordinate across teams
• Assist with external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
• Set-up and facilitate cadenced ceremonies

• Mentor/coach the team to adopt truly Agile mindset, including self-management and empowerment
• Plan, prepare and facilitate the team\'s ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Review
• Help in tracking the team\'s progress daily
• Create space for honest and actionable retrospection
• Guide the team on journey to self-organizing
• Foster a collaborative culture and ensure the team regularly celebrates success
• Improve Agile practices

• Focus teams on delivering value quickly
• Coach process, such as writing useful User Stories and managing the backlog
• Support and educate the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the backlog
• Identify which Agile practices drive most value and assist with coaching members to implement practices
• Actively exchange with other Scrum Masters and with up-to-date external sources of know-how to build further Agile expertise
• Remove impediments

• Remove the obstacles or impediments faced by the team in its work
• Ability to brainstorm with team members on solutions to address challenges
• Work with organisational resources outside Agile team to remove impediments and protect them from organisational bureaucracy
• Protect the team from outside tasking
• Support team to identify and remove obstacles that put delivery at risk
• Ensure Product Owner asks to the team are reasonable

and the team is empowered to commit to the Sprint load

IDEAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Several years of experience working Agile teams and understanding of Agile practices

for a large project transformation, evidence of progressive roles

• Ability to build rapport across functional teams, meet with the business with good business acumen
• Ability to brainstorm with team members on solutions to address challenges

and roadblocks

• Ability to influence behavior without having formal organizational hierarchy

• Act as a trusted ambassador to the manufacturing team; Coach, mentor and guide them to accomplish MDIxAI program goals.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across levels and functions internally and with third parties.
• Demonstrated skill in change and change management
• Good business acumen, understands how to drive value through the use of technology and data
• A strong passion, energy and enthusiasm to achieve and excel with your go-getter attitude and high motivation

EDUCATION

• Bachelor\'s Degree in appropriate discipline
• Master\'s Degree or Applied Certificate in Scrum Master

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.

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Job Family: Information Technology
Division: Global Technology
Department: \xe2\x80\x8bProject Management \xe2\x80\x8b
Location(s): CA - Canada : Ontario : Toronto || CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)

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