Job Description

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Scrum Master is a servant leader who enables teams to self-organize, self-manage, and deliver outcomes via Lean-Agile practices. The Scrum Master supports the Scrum Principles, as well as the team values and norms.  The Scrum Master also assists the team with removing impediments and helps teams coordinate with other teams as needed. The Scrum Master plays a key role in enabling team collaboration, communication, and adaptability to create customer-centric solutions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Exhibits Lean-Agile leadership – 
  • Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Growth Mindset. 
  • Effectively, calmly, and confidently leads the teams through change and uncertainty.
  • Helps the team embrace their aligned values and norms, adopt, and apply agile principles, and implement lean-agile practices.
  • Promotes agile practices across the organization.
• Facilitates the team’s progress toward team goals – 
  • Continuously engages in improving team performance in the areas of quality, flow, and value creation. 
  • Helps the team maintain focus on sprint goals that align to quarterly Objectives & Key Results (OKRs). 
• Helps Product Leaders in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and alignment. 
• Maintains team focus -
  • Works to address blockers outside of the team’s control so that the team can remain focused on achieving their goals.
  • Helps protect the team from uncontrolled expansion of work or other distractions. 
• Builds high-performing teams – 
  • Focuses on continuous improvement of both team and team member performance. 
  • Helps the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth. 
  • Helps individuals and teams through personnel changes. 
• Communicates with management and outside stakeholders as needed. 
• Coordinates with other teams – 
  • Is a trusted communication conduit within, to, and from the team.
  • Assists with coordinating across teams where needed.
• Facilitates team preparation and readiness for scrum events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate Degree
• Alcohol Beverage experience
• Additional Agile certifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Core Competencies Required Include:
  • Leading through change and uncertainty
  • Growth Mindset
  • Servant Leadership
  • Facilitation
  • Influencing
  • Problem solving
  • Coaching & Mentorship
  • Active Listening
  • Synthesis
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of related work experience
• Proven track record of successfully applying agile practices in complex organizational settings
• Scrum Master certification(s)

Agile Delivery Values

• Openness – Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges 
• Commitment – Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team 
• Respect – Respect your team members to be capable and independent 
• Courage – You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems 
• Focus – Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team.  Rise and fall as a team

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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