Scrum Master

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You will be joining our Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) team, a collaborative, cross-functional group that helps turn data into meaningful business outcomes across Bauer Media. The team partners closely with stakeholders across multiple markets, delivering trusted insights, data products, and solutions that support growth, audience engagement and operational excellence.

This role will support a brand-new squad, working alongside talented and supportive colleagues including Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, Product Owners, and other specialist data professionals.

The Difference You Will Make

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a new team. As Scrum Master, you will establish agile ways of working, create effective ceremonies and governance processes, and ensure the squad can deliver against its roadmap with clarity and confidence.

You will play a crucial role in helping a data-focused team work effectively, removing obstacles, aligning stakeholders, and driving delivery against agreed objectives. Working within a modern data operating model, you will balance agile coaching with a strong focus on planning, execution, transparency, and continuous improvement. 

You'll have the opportunity to influence how a new squad operates while supporting the delivery of impactful data solutions across multiple markets.

Your Role

As Scrum Master, you will facilitate agile delivery across a newly established data squad, ensuring the team has the structure, processes, and support needed to achieve its goals.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Establish and continuously improve agile processes, ceremonies, and ways of working for a newly formed team.
• Coach team members on Agile principles and Scrum practices, particularly within a data-focused environment.
• Maintain and optimise Jira and Confluence to ensure transparency across squad activities, sprint backlogs and delivery plans.
• Drive effective planning, tracking and delivery against agreed roadmaps and timelines.
• Support backlog refinement and ensure priorities are understood and aligned.
• Foster a culture of transparency, collaboration and continuous improvement within the squad.
• Provide clear reporting and delivery metrics to support roadmap predictability and stakeholder confidence.

The Skills You Will Bring

Essential

• Proven experience working as a Scrum Master within Agile delivery environments.
• Proven ability to manage initiatives at scale and cross-market.
• Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage planning, dependencies, risks and deadlines.
• Experience supporting Agile teams to successfully deliver projects and initiatives.
• Ability to adapt your approach to different team dynamics and levels of maturity.
• Familiarity with data, analytics, business intelligence, data engineering or similar data-focused environments.

Desirable

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or equivalent Agile certification.
• Experience launching new teams or establishing agile processes in greenfield environments.
• Experience within media, publishing or similarly complex, matrix organisations.
• Familiarity with Miro.
• Experience delivering projects across multiple stakeholders, markets or business functions.

Working Pattern/Location

Permanent, full-time position based in London with a hybrid working model. Approx. once a week onsite.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win. 
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working. 
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

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