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Msd

Specialist, Business Agility

LocationIND - Telangana - Hyderabad (Hitec City Raidurg)
Work modehybrid
Typefull-time
DepartmentInformation Technology
Company size10,000+ people
First seen5d ago
Last seen3d ago
Job Description
The Opportunity
About the company
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Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
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Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
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Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world’s greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Scrum Master with experience leading cross-functional teams to support business functions. In this role, you’ll facilitate agile delivery across a broad range of initiatives including data platform enhancements, dashboard development, automation, and data product delivery. The ideal candidate combines agile expertise with strong communication skills and a foundational understanding of data life cycles, analytics tooling, and enterprise project delivery.
What will you do in this role:
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Serve as Scrum Master for 1–3 Agile teams focused on delivering data and analytics solutions.
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Facilitate Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews.
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Collaborate with Product Owners to groom and maintain a well-defined backlog aligned to business priorities.
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Remove blockers and support teams in achieving sprint goals and continuous improvement.
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Coordinate across stakeholders in IT and different business teams.
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Track team metrics (velocity, burn-down, etc.) and report progress to leadership.
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Foster a culture of accountability, agility, and transparency.
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Ensure alignment to Agile best practices, scaling frameworks (e.g., SAFe), and delivery standards.
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Support onboarding of new team members and promote team engagement.
What should you have:
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Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or any related field.
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3-7 years of experience as a Scrum Master in a technology or data environment.
Primary skills (must-have)
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Hands-on experience with Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally)
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Strong facilitation, communication, and servant leadership skills
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Exposure to data projects (e.g., data pipelines, BI dashboards, data governance, reporting)
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Comfortable working with cross-functional teams across IT and business units
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Scrum Master Certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent)
Secondary skills (nice to have)
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Relevant certifications
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Experience in large enterprise settings or highly regulated industries (e.g., pharma, finance)
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Understanding of back-office operations (e.g., finance reporting cycles, HR metrics)
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Familiarity with data tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, or Databricks
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Experience with Agile-at-scale frameworks (e.g., SAFe, LeSS)
Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
Required Skills:
Agile Application Development, Animal Vaccination, Biopharmaceutical Industry, Business Administration, Capability Development, Change Management, Classroom Delivery, Client Counseling, Communication, Data Governance, Digital Transformation, Human Resource Metrics, Learning Design, Methodical Approach, Organizational Agility, Organizational Structures, Project Delivery, Servant Leadership, Sprint Planning, Teaching
Preferred Skills:
Databricks Platform, Snowflake (Platform), Tableau (Software)
Hiring process
Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
Secondary Language(s) Job Description:
#MSDHYDIT
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
Not Indicated
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
09/24/2026
*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.
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