Scrum Master (Insurance)

Life Product Scrum Master

12-Month Contract

Salary: Up to SGD 7,000/month

Location: Singapore

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Life Product Scrum Master to join a Product Implementation team and help shape and drive the outcomes of an Agile squad. The successful candidate will have decision-making authority and accountability within the Agile team, ensuring the successful delivery of product enhancements and business initiatives while balancing stakeholder, regulatory and operational requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Product & Delivery Management

• Accountable for the delivery of the end-to-end project lifecycle, ensuring effective control over governance, scope, resources, timeline, budget and risks.
• Break down complex business features into user stories and manage an ordered team backlog.
• Own and maintain well-defined user stories and epics, ensuring clear scope, acceptance criteria, definition of ready, definition of done and size estimations.
• Prioritise backlog items in alignment with business objectives and key outcomes.
• Ensure backlog visibility and clarity across all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure deliverables meet applicable governance, regulatory, operational risk and non-functional requirements.
• Be accountable for the outcomes delivered by the Agile team, including acceptance of completed work and delivered solutions.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the key representative of the Agile team and the solutions delivered.
• Engage and collaborate with business, technology and operational stakeholders to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Prepare and deliver project updates, progress reports and key messages to stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Coordinate with internal functions, service providers and external vendors where required.
• Ensure delivery outcomes are aligned with approved budgets and agreed objectives.

Agile Leadership

• Work closely with delivery leads, engineers, analysts and cross-functional team members to execute the product roadmap.
• Serve as an escalation point for delivery blockers, dependencies and risks impacting project execution.
• Drive issue resolution and mitigation activities to maintain delivery momentum.
• Promote Agile best practices and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate strong influencing, communication and decision-making skills to support successful Agile delivery.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of hands-on experience managing all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Experience within the Life Insurance industry will be advantageous.
• Strong blend of business and technical knowledge with the ability to drive complex initiatives and projects successfully.
• Proven ability to build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and influence outcomes in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively under tight timelines and changing priorities.
• Solid experience working within Agile methodologies and ways of working.
• Proficiency with Agile collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Ideal Candidate

You are a delivery-focused Agile professional with strong product ownership capabilities, excellent stakeholder management skills and proven experience driving successful implementation outcomes. You thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy solving complex business challenges and are confident working across business and technology teams to deliver value.

Interested Applicants

Interested candidates are invited to submit their updated CV to amos.tan@adecco.com for consideration. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Amos Tan Jun Han

EA LIcence No.91C2918

Personnel Registration No. R23113385