Principal, Scrum Master / Project Manager

Job Description:

⚡We are your Energy Technology Partner. We electrify, automate, and digitalize every industry, business, and home, driving efficiency and sustainability for all.

At Schneider Electric, our values - IMPACT (Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork) - are the foundation of everything we do.

Becoming an Impact Maker means turning sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization.

Are you ready to lead the digital transformation to create a more sustainable world? 🌳

If you are up to challenge your creativity and make an impact, we are excited to welcome you!

As Scrum Master of a big squad having a backlog mixing maintain activities and several epics to execute, you lead and guide the team in delivering high-value releases within committed timeframes.
You master the Offer Change Management process and you ensure strict adherence to the defined practices, facilitate key ceremonies, and collaborate with Product Owners to maintain strategic alignment. You work closely with cross-functional teams to manage dependencies and create comprehensive integration plans. You oversee sprint backlogs, drive decision-making, and manage project budgets to ensure timely delivery. You actively remove impediments, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and provide support to team members in their professional growth. You identify and resolve obstacles, encourage reflection on processes, and fine-tune practices using tools such as Jira.
You are also leading the end-to-end execution of all the backlog items ensuring timely delivery, stakeholder alignment, and measurable value creation. You are responsible for translating objectives into actionable plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, and managing risks, resources, and timelines with precision. Your mission is to drive successful outcomes that align with organizational goals while maintaining quality, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
You exercise independent judgment to resolve issues impacting short-term results, often in ambiguous situations.
Key Responsibilities:
* Ensure smooth execution of backlog within the agreed timebox in compliance with the OLM Milestones
* Develop a detailed execution plan, including scope, objectives, schedule, and resources.
* Lead the squad to achieve goals and deliverables. Coordinate tasks and ensure that squad members understand their responsibilities.
* Partner with Product Owner to ensure strategy and execution alignment with League's and Squad's visions. Ensure together cross team collaboration.
* Coach and ensure that the Squad gains efficiency, increase performance and autonomy by understanding and applying OLM, and drive change and dependency management.
* Facilitates all the Squad rituals and key events such as Sprint planning, Squad updates ( Daily or Weekly standup/ loop-in meeting/ Collaboration/ Short interval meetings etc.), Review & Retrospection and ensures all these are efficient & fruitful. Conduct reviews to identify lessons learned and document best practices.
* Identify and manage risks and dependencies. Drive the decision-making process
* Identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to Squad impediments
* Make sure the PPM is updated with latest info on Epic and data quality and manage the operational budget collaboratively with the PO.
* Track progress against the plan making adjustments as necessary.
* Provide progress status and escalate impediments on a regular basis. Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders.
Qualifications

Must have

* Significant experience as a Scrum Master, Project Manager, or in a similar delivery role.
* Strong knowledge of Scrum practices, backlog management, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
* Experience managing complex execution plans, risks, dependencies, resources, budgets, and timelines.
* Ability to lead and coach cross-functional teams, remove impediments, and improve team performance.
* Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills.

Nice to have

* Experience with Offer Change Management and OLM milestones.
* Experience using Jira and project portfolio management tools.
* Experience managing backlogs that combine maintenance activities and multiple epics.

We adapt to you:
🕓 With our flexible schedule, you'll have the freedom to adjust your work hours to accommodate your personal needs and responsibilities.
💻 We know how great it is to work from home. With our hybrid work plan, you can enjoy working from the comfort of your home.
🏝 Need more time to relax and disconnect? With our Holy Pack, you can purchase additional vacation days to recharge when you need it most.
📅 Celebrate holidays your way! With Floating Holidays, you can exchange holidays for other days that better suit your plans and personal preferences.
🧘 Need additional time to explore new experiences or focus on personal projects? With the Sabbatical Pack, you can request up to 2 months of extra leave (unpaid).
💞 We value the importance of family and want to support you in all aspects of your life. Our Global Family Leave Policy provides flexible paid conditions for when you need it most, whether you're about to be a parent, need time to overcome a loss, or to care for a loved one.

We take care of you:
📱 With access to the health and wellness platform Wellwo, you and up to 5 people of your choice can enjoy access to wellness content, nutrition counseling, fitness classes, and more!
🏄 From dance classes to booking a hotel spa, we offer an agreement with Wellhub so you can access a network of thousands of gyms and sports centers to keep your body active in the way you like best.
🩺 Your well-being is our priority. You will have medical service at your workplace for close attention to any medical needs.

We empower you:
🎯 With Career Hub, our AI-driven professional development platform, you can connect with job opportunities, projects, and mentors at Schneider Electric globally.
🤑 We offer you the opportunity to be a shareholder of Schneider Electric and share in our achievements with our stock ownership program.
🙌 We celebrate everyone's talent and success with our recognition program, through which you can give and receive points for your achievements and redeem them for gift cards at your favorite stores.
💗 You will have life insurance for your protection.
💰 We offer you a Flexible Remuneration Plan in which you can choose from a variety of options, such as health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, transportation vouchers, training, and more.
🎁 With Club Schneider, you will enjoy special discounts at your favorite stores, restaurants, travel agencies, and other external services.
💚 Participate in company-subsidized volunteer programs to contribute to our community and have a positive impact on your environment.

Bring your Agile expertise to a team that's ready to achieve great things together - apply now!
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: "We see you. We value you". It's more than just pay and benefits- it's a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
Schneider Electric is there when it matters most to you
Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you'll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:
Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: health and life insurance, paid time off, parental and care leave, flexible work options, support for chronic conditions, and confidential counseling for life's challenges.
Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, short-term incentives or sales incentives, opportunities to own company shares, and retirement savings plans for your future.
Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.
Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program, sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.
Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, and initiatives that support youth education.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.
Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!
EUR40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and 'inclusion' is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.

⚡We are your Energy Technology Partner. We electrify, automate, and digitalize every industry, business, and home, driving efficiency and sustainability for all.

At Schneider Electric, our values - IMPACT (Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork) - are the foundation of everything we do.

Becoming an Impact Maker means turning sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization.

Are you ready to lead the digital transformation to create a more sustainable world? 🌳

If you are up to challenge your creativity and make an impact, we are excited to welcome you!

As Scrum Master of a big squad having a backlog mixing maintain activities and several epics to execute, you lead and guide the team in delivering high-value releases within committed timeframes.
You master the Offer Change Management process and you ensure strict adherence to the defined practices, facilitate key ceremonies, and collaborate with Product Owners to maintain strategic alignment. You work closely with cross-functional teams to manage dependencies and create comprehensive integration plans. You oversee sprint backlogs, drive decision-making, and manage project budgets to ensure timely delivery. You actively remove impediments, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and provide support to team members in their professional growth. You identify and resolve obstacles, encourage reflection on processes, and fine-tune practices using tools such as Jira.
You are also leading the end-to-end execution of all the backlog items ensuring timely delivery, stakeholder alignment, and measurable value creation. You are responsible for translating objectives into actionable plans, coordinating cross-functional teams, and managing risks, resources, and timelines with precision. Your mission is to drive successful outcomes that align with organizational goals while maintaining quality, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction.
You exercise independent judgment to resolve issues impacting short-term results, often in ambiguous situations.
Key Responsibilities:
* Ensure smooth execution of backlog within the agreed timebox in compliance with the OLM Milestones
* Develop a detailed execution plan, including scope, objectives, schedule, and resources.
* Lead the squad to achieve goals and deliverables. Coordinate tasks and ensure that squad members understand their responsibilities.
* Partner with Product Owner to ensure strategy and execution alignment with League's and Squad's visions. Ensure together cross team collaboration.
* Coach and ensure that the Squad gains efficiency, increase performance and autonomy by understanding and applying OLM, and drive change and dependency management.
* Facilitates all the Squad rituals and key events such as Sprint planning, Squad updates ( Daily or Weekly standup/ loop-in meeting/ Collaboration/ Short interval meetings etc.), Review & Retrospection and ensures all these are efficient & fruitful. Conduct reviews to identify lessons learned and document best practices.
* Identify and manage risks and dependencies. Drive the decision-making process
* Identify, escalate, and help find resolutions to Squad impediments
* Make sure the PPM is updated with latest info on Epic and data quality and manage the operational budget collaboratively with the PO.
* Track progress against the plan making adjustments as necessary.
* Provide progress status and escalate impediments on a regular basis. Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders

Candidate Requirements:

Qualifications

Must have

* Significant experience as a Scrum Master, Project Manager, or in a similar delivery role.
* Strong knowledge of Scrum practices, backlog management, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
* Experience managing complex execution plans, risks, dependencies, resources, budgets, and timelines.
* Ability to lead and coach cross-functional teams, remove impediments, and improve team performance.
* Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and decision-making skills.

Nice to have

* Experience with Offer Change Management and OLM milestones.
* Experience using Jira and project portfolio management tools.
* Experience managing backlogs that combine maintenance activities and multiple epics.

We adapt to you:
🕓 With our flexible schedule, you'll have the freedom to adjust your work hours to accommodate your personal needs and responsibilities.
💻 We know how great it is to work from home. With our hybrid work plan, you can enjoy working from the comfort of your home.
🏝 Need more time to relax and disconnect? With our Holy Pack, you can purchase additional vacation days to recharge when you need it most.
📅 Celebrate holidays your way! With Floating Holidays, you can exchange holidays for other days that better suit your plans and personal preferences.
🧘 Need additional time to explore new experiences or focus on personal projects? With the Sabbatical Pack, you can request up to 2 months of extra leave (unpaid).
💞 We value the importance of family and want to support you in all aspects of your life. Our Global Family Leave Policy provides flexible paid conditions for when you need it most, whether you're about to be a parent, need time to overcome a loss, or to care for a loved one.

We take care of you:
📱 With access to the health and wellness platform Wellwo, you and up to 5 people of your choice can enjoy access to wellness content, nutrition counseling, fitness classes, and more!
🏄 From dance classes to booking a hotel spa, we offer an agreement with Wellhub so you can access a network of thousands of gyms and sports centers to keep your body active in the way you like best.
🩺 Your well-being is our priority. You will have medical service at your workplace for close attention to any medical needs.

We empower you:
🎯 With Career Hub, our AI-driven professional development platform, you can connect with job opportunities, projects, and mentors at Schneider Electric globally.
🤑 We offer you the opportunity to be a shareholder of Schneider Electric and share in our achievements with our stock ownership program.
🙌 We celebrate everyone's talent and success with our recognition program, through which you can give and receive points for your achievements and redeem them for gift cards at your favorite stores.
💗 You will have life insurance for your protection.
💰 We offer you a Flexible Remuneration Plan in which you can choose from a variety of options, such as health insurance, meal vouchers, childcare vouchers, transportation vouchers, training, and more.
🎁 With Club Schneider, you will enjoy special discounts at your favorite stores, restaurants, travel agencies, and other external services.
💚 Participate in company-subsidized volunteer programs to contribute to our community and have a positive impact on your environment.

Bring your Agile expertise to a team that's ready to achieve great things together - apply now