Scrum Master Newcastle upon Tyne, Hybrid working Permanent, full time (37.5 hpw) Salary circa £38000 pa, negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan Home, a place where you belong Are you passionate about making teams work smarter, not harder? As our Scrum Master, you'll be the driving force behind our team’s Agile journey, helping them master the art of Scrum and achieve their goals with ease. You’ll be right at the heart of things, supporting continuous improvement, knocking down blockers, and creating an environment where collaboration and self-organisation thrive. If you love empowering others and making a real difference, this is the role for you Typical day as our Scrum Master Facilitate Scrum ceremonies like daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to keep the team on track. Collaborate closely with IS teams and wider stakeholders to improve processes and enhance our technical offerings. Help the team stay focused on their sprint goals by removing obstacles and resolving conflicts. Track progress using Azure DevOps, analysing outputs such as Burndown charts and sharing updates with the team. Champion Agile principles across the function, coaching teams to adopt and embrace best practices. Foster a high-energy, collaborative environment where the team is empowered to self-organise and continuously improve. Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK Employer You bring Hands-on experience working within Agile frameworks, with a deep understanding of the Scrum process. The ability to identify and remove blockers, keeping the team moving forward towards their sprint goals. Experience using tools like Azure DevOps to manage workflows, track progress, and report metrics. Strong communication skills, ensuring alignment between your team and wider stakeholders. A passion for fostering teamwork, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Certified Scrum Master with recognised qualifications and a desire to keep learning and mentoring others. Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review. Our team Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home Job details This is a hybrid role, and you’ll spend a minimum of 2 days a week in our central Newcastle upon Tyne offices and have the option to work from home the rest of the week. You’ll manage your own diary, so if you need to work from home to take delivery of your new fridge or take a longer lunch for a haircut, you can use your flexi time to manage that A place where you belong Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work What’s in it for you? 34 days leave (this includes bank hols and a “me day” to use whenever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more. Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us. Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them. We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. See our full range of benefits on our website. Find out more Click APPLY NOW to see our Scrum Master Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitmenthomegroup.org.uk Work Locations Newcastle upon Tyne (Strawberry Lane) Closing Date Oct.24, 11:59:00 PM