Scrum Master Standard Business Incubator

The Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress,
creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. It is organized into three Business Units, each with a distinct strategy and set of objectives contributing to the Group’s overall mission.

It is Swiss Re's ambition to become the leading data-driven risk knowledge company to help clients mitigate their risks. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions (CorSo) provides a wide range of traditional and non-traditional commercial insurance products and risk transfer solutions through a dedicated, global team of commercial insurance experts. Our solutions are broad, our expertise is deep. Therefore, information and technology are instrumental in building a respective data corpus and advanced analytics capabilities to enable this ambition.


About the role

The Standard Business team has been established to bring simplicity and efficiency to our clients, intermediaries and colleagues through innovative use of data and technology. We believe that by creating standard products, we can meet clients' and intermediaries' needs better, while at the same time operate at a low expense ratio. Customers will experience products and a customer journey that is consistent, easier to understand and reliable.

As a Scrum master, you will play a key role in building global capabilities for CorSo's Standard Business.
You will be part of an incubator set up that is highly dynamic, entrepreneurial and cross functional; and will collaborate with colleagues from the Proposition team, Innovation & Transformation, Operations, IT and Products functions. In this role you will also act as a glue and synthesize deliverables from different functions to achieve a common vision and goal.

We are keen on hiring a candidate, who will have strong hands-on/delivery mindset to facilitate planning, track execution progress and remove impediments.
With ideal candidate this role will progress into Agile coach role and help us increase our agile team maturity.

Your key responsibilities include:

- Ensure all projects are delivered on time, on budget, and within scope, following an Agile project methodology
- Organize and facilitate meetings with functional representatives both with internal and external to team; working effectively across teams to ensure a smooth integration at all points in the process
- Establish and maintain project communication and set project quality and performance standards
- Troubleshoot with teams & people how to manage deliverables and themselves
- Foster teams' self-organisation, collaboration and sharing
- Apply innovative and creative thinking while dealing with challenges
- Drive the continuous improvement
- Create and maintain effective relationships with internal and external team members
- Collaborate with IT, capability build, underwriting, products, claims, business development and business services colleagues
- Develop, communicate and implement program and project risk, issue management plans and strategies

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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