Agile Coach

Overview

Agile Coach

(Hybrid/Cluj)

We’re Kingfisher, a team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Dépôt and Koçtaş - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher, our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office, located in Cluj. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.

We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:

• Annual performance bonus
• Employee referral bonus
• Private medical coverage (Regina Maria – Priority Plan)
• Option to extend coverage to your spouse or children at no extra cost
• Life insurance (Metropolitan Life)
• Eyeglasses vouchers
• 7Card fitness membership (co-funded)
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, LEO Learning, and Bookster
• Fresh fruit bar and premium coffee
• Modern, collaborative workspace
• Hybrid work model
• Flexible working schedule
• 21 days of annual leave + extra days based on tenure (up to 25 days)
• Additional days off when public holidays fall on weekends
• Paid leave for special life events
• Meal vouchers
• Gift vouchers (up to 4 per year), offered for occasions like Christmas, Easter, March 8th, and June 1st

What's the job?

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Agile practitioner who is passionate about enabling teams to perform at their best and continuously improve how they deliver value.

In this role, you will support squads in increasing their Agile maturity and enhancing delivery outcomes. You will coach teams on effective Agile practices and ceremonies, ensuring they are outcome-focused and aligned with business objectives. By leveraging performance and maturity data, you will identify improvement opportunities, track progress and help embed sustainable, scalable ways of working across the organisation.

If you're looking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!

Responsibilities

• Coach and teach the squad to successfully run all agreed Agile ceremonies, including (but not limited to); daily stand ups, backlog refinement, amigos, quarterly planning, sprint planning and retrospectives.

• Coach the squad to work within Kingfisher Agile processes, principles, tooling and frameworks

• Deliver Targeted Learning activity in response to feedback from Domain / Sub Domain Leadership and Lead Agile Coaches

• Provide the squad with data and insights to enable them to continually improve. Coach the squad on how to use this reporting and data to improve.

• Gather data and insight from the Squad for use within Business Partnering sessions with Domain / Sub Domain Leadership

• Support Squads to introduce new ways of working and support grass roots improvement in line with plans agreed by Domain and Sub-Domain Leaders

• Provide assurance services at the Squad Level to understand alignment to Kingfisher Technology Standards and Principles, compliance with Enterprise Processes and to identify skill and capability gaps. Share data and insight to support identification of actions that could enable increased Squad / Team success.

• Conduct Maturity Assessments to understand Agile Maturity at the Squad level and identify actions that could enable increased Squad / Team success.

• Provide input to the Agile CoP, sharing insight and running sessions targeted to drive delivery excellence and continuous improvement

• Share industry knowledge, best practice and expertise to enable Agile capability and squads to identify ways to continually improve

• Induct new members of the team into 'Agile at Kingfisher'

• Provide team building and performance coaching to improve culture and communication

• Support targeted ideation, improvement and innovation events at the Domain / Sub-Domain level, using data and insight to identify improvement areas and work with Squads to implement improvement ideas.

What you'll bring

Skills

• Proven experience of Scrum and Agile practices

• Agile coach experience in a complex and large Agile organisation

• Proven ability to drive change, take ownership of their delivery and be an effective communicator

• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills

• Able to work under pressure and prioritise workload effectively

• Has a recognised Agile Practice Qualification

• Excellent command of English (written and spoken)

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