Agile Lead / Scrum Master

Agile/Scrum Master - Audience MeasurementMake your mark at IpsosIpsos is looking for an excellent Agile Master, someone experienced as an Agile practitioner who can guide and coach the team on Agile principles and best practices, while ensuring delivery is on time, within budget, and with high quality.

This role sits in Ipsos' Audience Measurement service line which leads the UK market in media audience understanding. They measure engagement across various media, providing data on audience reach and composition to advertisers and content owners. Their technical project managers ensure the success of complex technology deliveries, managing the deployment of engineering and data science products.

What is in it for you? Successful applicants will be joining at an exciting time in the company's life, working on brand new projects as well as on established projects with several new major clients.

It’s a fantastic opportunity to work closely with our product team and with our data and engineering teams to understand key priorities and to plan release delivery.

You get Autonomy – the chance to lead the Agile process of a team of developers, data scientists, designers, QA, and product managers to implement the requirements across our projects.

The role

As the Agile / Scrum Lead, you will:

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as standups, planning, reviews and retrospectives with clear intention and a focus on outcomes
• Drive and facilitate PI Planning events, ensuring teams are aligned on priorities, dependencies and delivery commitments across the programme increment
• Guide and coach teams on Agile principles and best practices, driving meaningful improvements in ways of working regardless of the team’s starting point
• Collaborate with Product Owners to ensure backlogs are well-refined, prioritised and understood by the team
• Identify and remove blockers at the team level, and escalate systemic or organisational impediments where needed
• Monitor delivery health such as flow, risks, dependencies and make them visible to the right people at the right time
• Communicate delivery progress, risks and trade-offs to stakeholders clearly and proactively
• Foster a positive team environment that encourages collaboration, psychological safety and constructive ways of working
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Agile practices across the broader delivery organisation

About you

Essential Criteria:

The successful candidate would ideally have performed a similar role for a Market Research agency working across multi-disciplinary teams.

You will need to have the following experience:

• Proven experience as an Agile Master, Scrum Master or equivalent role in a technology or product delivery environment
• Proven ability to drive meaningful improvements in Agile ways of working, regardless of the team's starting point
• Professional experience with Agile project management tools such as Jira, Trello, and Confluence
• Professional experience with software development methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile principles and frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written
• Experience identifying and addressing delivery blockers, risks and dependencies proactively
• Knowledge of software development practices, such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and test-driven development
• Experience working across multiple teams or disciplines simultaneously
• Familiarity with PI Planning or equivalent cross-team planning and dependency alignment at programme level
• Experience coaching or mentoring others on Agile ways of working
• Exposure to systemic impediment resolution beyond team-level blockers
• Understanding of software development or data delivery practice
• Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.