Scrum Master

Working within the Tech Delivery team this Scrum Master role exists to create the conditions for teams to deliver value at pace through strong collaboration and continuous improvement., * Facilitate Agile Ceremonies: such as stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, and reviews to maintain momentum and foster continuous improvement.

• Team Planning & Prioritisation: Support the team in estimating, forecasting, tracking, and delivering priorities, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Workflow: Oversee the daily flow of work items, ensuring progression from backlog to delivery, using flow metrics where appropriate to enhance predictability and efficiency.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with the Product Managers/ owners and technical stakeholders to understand priorities and dependencies.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identifying, managing, and mitigating risks to timelines, quality, and scope.
• Team Empowerment & Coaching: Fostering a productive, high-performing team culture by removing obstacles (blockers) that hinder progress, coaching team members in delivery practices, and improving workflows.
• Dependency Management: Identify, visualise, and actively manage cross-team dependencies to minimise delivery friction and sequencing risks.
• Delivery Predictability & Metrics: Use appropriate delivery metrics to provide transparency, improve forecasting, and support data-informed decisions.
• Release & Milestone Coordination: Support release planning and milestone alignment, ensuring work is sequenced realistically and communicated clearly.
• Capacity & Resource Planning: Partner with Product and Engineering to balance demand, capacity, and priorities to enable sustainable delivery.
• Governance & Reporting: Provide clear, concise updates on progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders, adapting communication style to the audience.
• Escalation & Issue Resolution: Escalate impediments and risks appropriately while promoting ownership and problem-solving at the right level.
• Delivery Standards & Consistency: Support consistent application of delivery principles, frameworks, and best practices across squads.
• Commercial & Value Awareness: Maintain awareness of cost, effort, and value considerations to support balanced delivery decisions.
• Ways of Working Optimisation: Help teams refine and evolve their ways of working, ensuring processes remain pragmatic, lightweight, and value-driven.

Do you have experience in Organizational skills?, * Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to run effective ceremonies, workshops, and alignment sessions.

• Excellent communication skills, able to adapt messaging for technical teams, senior stakeholders, and business partners.
• Ability to plan, forecast, and track work using appropriate delivery techniques and metrics.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, building trusted, collaborative relationships across Product, Engineering, and Business teams.
• Proven ability to identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Ability to balance structure and pragmatism, applying the right level of process without creating unnecessary overhead.
• Coaching and mentoring capability, supporting teams in improving ways of working, delivery practices, and collaboration.
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage competing priorities, ambiguity, and changing demands.
• Data informed decision making, using delivery metrics and insights to guide conversations and improvements.
• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills, helping teams and stakeholders navigate competing priorities or perspectives.
• Ability to drive clarity and alignment where goals, scope, or priorities are unclear.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity, adapting approaches based on team maturity and context.
• Strong problem-solving skills, focusing on outcomes rather than rigid processes.

Preferred Skills:

• Adopting and leading change
• Lateral thinker
• Willing to challenge and be challenged
• Willingness to give and receive effective feedback

Pulled from the full job description

• Employee discount
• Gym membership
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech scheme, * Performance-based Bonus opportunity
• Funded Healthcare benefit
• 25 days holiday, additional day for your birthday & Bank Holidays
• Contributory Employer pension scheme
• Flexible benefits programme - including salary sacrifice EV scheme, dental insurance, cycle to work, tech scheme, holiday trading
• Gymshark Employee Discount & long service awards
• Access to High Street cashback and discounts
• Financial, Physical and Mental Wellbeing Support
• Enhanced Family Leave package
• Life Assurance

Office location specific benefits include (IQ):

• Gym Membership to The Lifting Club (LC)
• Onsite lunch provision & coffee bars
• EV charge points available

Note: The bonus program and benefits have certain eligibility requirements. Gymshark reserves the right to amend these programs in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

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