Project Manager/Scrum Master

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients. 

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work. 

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives— where your purpose accelerates our mission. 

Job Summary:

The Scrum Master ensures the smooth operation of all Agile team processes and activities. This includes organizing and running daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sizing sessions, backlog grooming sessions, and end-of-sprint ceremonies. The Scrum Master is responsible for tracking sprint progress and burn-down by creating dashboards and reports as needed. In this role, they are responsible for ensuring the team lives agile values and principles and follows the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary development projects from inception to completion.

• Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

• Work with the team to define, groom and prioritize the product backlog to ensure successful delivery of product scope.

• Manage project schedules, identify risks and communicate them to project stakeholders.

• Resolves impediments to team workflows.

• Guides and coaches the Scrum Team and all stakeholders on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver value quickly and at a high-quality standard.

• Gets team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.

• Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

• Apply a sense of urgency, commitment and focus on the right priorities in delivering solutions in a timely fashion.

• Break down barriers and shield the development team from impediments to ensure progress against sprints and deadlines.

• Create metrics to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback.

• Contributes to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

Job Qualifications:

The following are minimum requirements related to the Scrum Master position.

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline

• Minimum 3 years Scrum Master experience

• CSM certification required, A-CSM certification preferred

• Deep knowledge of Agile practices and techniques

• Strong communication and coaching skills

• Experience delivering agile frameworks or methods (i.e. Scrum, Kanban), an understanding of software development life cycle models as well as in-depth knowledge of traditional project management principles and practices

• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

• Must be fluent in English both written and verbal

• PMP certification is a nice to have

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• Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
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