Agile Coach - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role:
Agile Coach

The Location:
US or UK

The Impact:

S&P Dow Jones Indices is seeking an Agile Coach to guide, inspire, and lead the organization through its Agile transformation.

You will work closely with leaders and team members at all levels to ensure the execution certainty and integration of this criticalinitiative.

Y ou will help teams change their ways of working, maximiz ing their full potential to deliver value and progress against key business outcomes.

You will help drive behavior change and work with Agile teams to track organizational metrics and managebusiness processes. You will support with training sessions and workshops to enable teams in agile methodology.

You will embrace agility as a discipline and drive the agile maturation of each team and the organization as a change agent and agile leader.

You will report to the Head of Agile Coach ing and work with a team of Agile Coaches that exemplifies agile mindset and provides hands-on experiences with cross-functional teams to engineer their best way of work.

You will cultivate a high-performance cultureof client centrism, disciplined execution, collaboration, innovation, and integrity.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part an iconic leading benchmark provider, bringing independent, transparent, innovative index solutions to the global investment community.

Responsibilities:

Vision & Values:

Guide direction on vision, enable critical decision making, help unblock escalated issues, and visibly champion effort of transformation management strategy
Help d rive the agile strategy across the organization to the right levels of leadership and teams to ensure understanding of transformation objectives
Key player in successfully implementing and maturing agile while helping to drive organizational and cultural transformation changes
Be an ambassador for agile and a catalyst for continuous improvement role models agile principles and behaviors

Agile Coaching Capability:

Demonstrate an agile mindset in all interactions across coaching team and broader division
M entor, coach, and help mature agile roles across teams
Coach, influence, and provide feedback to front line management including Team and Sub Chapter Lead
Work with teams across the organization to promote agile principles and build a culture of servant leadership through team coaching, workshops and 1:1 sessions
Provide agile consulting and support for crossfunctional teams and projects with mínimal supervision
Provide 1:1 coaching for team members and facilitate problem solving workshops with support from more senior Agile coaches as needed
Influence and turn observationbased learnings into feedback and positive changes and actions
Demonstrate solid foundational relationship management and customer engagement skills through various project and experiences
Able to influence outcomes around process management
Mentor and support more junior team members in developing their agile coaching capability and solving team challenges

Agile Processes (Incl.

Financial and Operations):

Continuously refine S&P DJI's endtoend processes to align with Agile principles and approaches to define teamlevel practices and ceremonies
Diagnose different situations and assess agile capability gaps between current and mature state
Help d rive change and solutions with support from senior coaches as needed
Educate teams on problem solving skills in order to increase trust, collaboration and and self sufficien cy in the agile principles within teams
Role model agile process improvement techniques and behaviors
Support the implementation of metrics, dashboards, and OKR's to optimize delivery and measure agility in terms of predictability, responsiveness, quality, productivity and customer and business value
Enable teams to realize their objectives and deliver on OKR's in service to S&P DJI strategy
Participate in both internal and external Agile community to stay abreast of challenges, leading practices, and emerging trends
Look for new opportunities to deliver on continuous business improvement efforts.
Partner with Compliance, Legal and Index Governance to ensure agile coaching practice is aligned with the S&P DJI Governance framework and guardrails
Ensure consistent adoption of Agile collaboration tools and alignment across teams
Develop and deliver agile training and curriculum solutions to the Agile teams including facilitation of workshops, and training on a variety of agile topics (e.g., playbook, bootcamp materials)

What we are looking for:

Qualifications:

4 + years of work experience with experience in leading change preferred
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
K nowledge and experience working with or in Agile teams and understanding of practices
A depth and breadth of knowledge on how S&P Dow Jones Indices operates including impactful trends and future direction of the core index, asset, wealth, and capital market industries preferred

Critical experiences:

Effectively supported a successful organizational transformation delivered enterprise and/or crossfunctional program
Experience with Agile frameworks preferrable within a product and clientcentric organization
Demonstrated ability to build relationships and communicate with senior and middle management
Experience in coaching, training, and facilitating leaders through business transformation
Previously worked in a global company and demonstrated crosscultural and crossfunctional effectiveness
Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills in a team setting including extended teams where members are not always direct reports

Critical leadership competencies:

Demonstrated ability to empower individuals and teams to work autonomously to deliver great value to customers
Results driven

- owns partnerships as key enablers to deliver business objectives

Ability to cultivate strong relationships to effectively navigate the organization
Ability to make sound decisions quickly in a fastpaced setting
Ability to absorb input from multiple external and internal influences and translate into effective and actionable team initiatives A bility to create an inclusive environment and man