Agile Scrum Master (Finance)
Position Overview:
CuraScript SD a wholesale pharmaceutical distributor that provides customized business solutions and access to specialty drugs to community physicians, specialty pharmacies, and health systems; it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Express Scripts, Inc. - a Cigna Company.
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Scrum Master to join our technology team. The Scrum Master serves as a key facilitator and collaborator focusing specifically on coordinating activities within the Agile Team Level of Coordination. In this role, the Scrum Master facilitates the smooth execution of team-level work, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and customer needs. Working closely within and with other cross-functional teams, the Scrum Master oversees the coordination and implementation of Stories.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a solid understanding of assigned product roadmaps
- Partners with one or more Chief Technical Owners (CTPO) and Technical Product Owners (TPO)
- Identifies and collaborates with CTPO/TPO in prioritization and planning conversations. Ensures alignment to strategy, roadmap, priorities (business and technology), scheduling constraints, and capacity.
- Attends appropriate Story meetings to represent delivery within the aligned Agile Program
- Ensures team members have context of the relevant Features, including value, within their Agile Team(s)
- Ensures team members have awareness of team and Agile Program dependencies, constraints, and impediments
- Ensures stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) before the work is started
- Supports the continuous definition, decomposition, right-sizing, planning, and delivery of Stories. Ensures these activities occur in alignment with PI Planning Milestones
- Ensures collaboration occurs amongst key personnel and all are aligned (including but not limited to product, architecture, business partners)
- Serves as point of escalation to address issues, impediments, and conflicts for all Stories being managed
- Ensures all Stories being managed retain their visibility and timely movement across their Jira Board, while ensuring WIP limits are respected
- Fosters an environment of Continuous Improvement using appropriate measures and metrics including Burn-Up, Control Chart, Delivery Predictability, Defect Ratios, and Story Cycle Time in alignment with Enterprise Operating Model.
- Ensures backlog maintenance occurs on a regular cadence
- Ensures Stories meet the Definition of Done (DoD) before the work is accepted
- Attends and participates in all relevant work intake discussions and ceremonies
- Reviews Jira Story data to ensure it aligns with quality standards
- Owns and facilitates relevant ceremonies
- Engages with and provide support for releases and deployments as needed
- Acts as a servant leader and ensures alignment with appropriate Enterprise Operating Model (EOM) processes
Overall Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master
- Hands on experience with Jira/Kanban/Scrumban/Scrum
- Experience with agile delivery methodologies
- Experience/understanding with ERP implementation processes (i.e. planning, blueprinting, go-live, hypercare)
- Demonstrated strong organizational skills with strong PC literacy with Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Must be highly customer focused with a demonstrated commitment to customer care and building long-term relationships
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Additional Qualifications
- Scrum Master Certification
- Knowledge of SAP S/4 HANA preferred
- Knowledge of supply chain management preferred
Experience in wholesale pharmaceutical distribution or life sciences preferred
If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
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The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.
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