Agile Acceleration Lead - London, United Kingdom - S&P Global

S&P Global

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role:
Agile Acceleration Lead

Grade:
(relevant for internal applicants only): 12/13

The Location:
Global

The Impact:

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

As the Agile Acceleration Lead, you will work closely with leaders and team members at all levels to ensure the execution certainty and integration of this critical initiative.

You will help teams change their ways of working, maximizing their full potential to deliver value and progress against key business outcomes.

You will drive behavior change and work with agile teams to track organizational metrics and manage business 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 divisional Head of People, acting as the Acceleration Office Lead, 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 working.

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

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of 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 drive 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 Integration
Help drive Agile execution and initiatives across S&P DJI by collaborating with Acceleration Office Lead, Lead Agile Coach and others to create and then own all Agile playbooks
Deliver powerful, persuasive presentations to audiences at all levels, expressing complex concepts/ideas into a simple compelling story that is aligned with the overall divisional strategy and objectives
Continuously evolve playbook and presentations furthering the transformation of the organization
Work with Acceleration Office leaders to meet transformation deliverables such as identifying a standard set of Agile metrics, revising project templates, setting up communities of practice and updating processes
Assist in guiding teams in creating a plan to establish and track OKRs, meet deliverables, and facilitate meetings.
Track adoption of practices and processes; ensure tool alignment
Measure and track sprint-related output metrics and update relevant stakeholders
Own maturity metrics by creating and aggregating surveys; evolve for agile and non-agile teams
Maintain dashboard for Agile maturity metrics and work with Agile Coaches to align on assessment
Help in designing Quarterly Business Review ("QBR") and measurement process in collaboration with Finance team
Run QBR process and work with relevant stakeholders to align on and track OKRs
Partner with People, Communications and other divisional colleagues to craft and execute communications and any ongoing upskilling support

What we are looking for:

Qualifications:

5+ years of work experience with experience in supporting Agile transformation
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.
Knowledge 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
Experience with Agile frameworks preferrable within a product and client-centric organization
Demonstrated ability to build relationships and communicate with senior and middle management
Previously worked in a global company and demonstrated cross-cultural and cross-functional effectiveness

Critical competencies:

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 fast-paced setting
Ability to absorb input from multiple external and internal influences and translate into effective and actionable plans and initiatives
Strong presentation, interpersonal, and negotiation skills

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only)
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