Institutional Marketing is in the midst of a unique transformation. The Institutional Marketing leadership team, along with business partners across the enterprise, have spent the last several months designing a brand new future state organization focused around Agile marketing principles. Why are we transforming? We have a goal as a department to become a strategic partner to the IIG business and drive results using data-driven decisions and innovative marketing capabilities. This is an extremely exciting time to be joining marketing. We welcome your experience, expertise and ideas!
As a Scrum master, you will:
- Support your aligned Agile marketing pod in conceptualizing, prioritizing, and designing marketing tests to continually improve marketing activities and outcomes.
- Run Agile ceremonies and meetings, remove obstacles, and troubleshoot issues for the team
- Leverage competitive intelligence and analysis to inform test designs.
- Engage with data analytics to assess, report, and improve team performance and marketing outcomes.
- Manage stakeholder relationships on a proactive and regular basis to secure and manage resources, remove obstacles, and report results.
Core Responsibilities:
1. Leads, builds, and coaches high performing teams in the delivery of products or projects, ensuring team actions are aligned with project and business goals. May instruct or coach other professionals.
2. Leads planning, team learning, and adaptation of processes to ensure the quality of team solutions.
3. Enables a continuous learning environment, identifying ways to strengthen the team’s understanding of Agile/Scrum concepts and principles.
4. Builds and applies methodology that supports the integration of changing customer inputs and business conditions into product development.
5. Recommends to the product owner and management in the definition and prioritization of outcomes. Identifies trade-offs between short and long term benefits to drive shared vision between the team and product owner.
6. Ensures the application of agile frameworks to the development process to increase effectiveness of product development.
7. Leads daily scrum meetings, iteration reviews and maintains backlogs.
8. Removes roadblocks to product development. Applies learnings to other development projects.
9. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
- Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
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We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.
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