Agile Coach

More about the role

• Embed agile principles and practices across Sainsbury's Tech, partnering with leadership, teams, and stakeholders to enable early and continuous delivery of customer value.
• Facilitate continuous improvement in ways of working across Sainsbury's Tech through catalysing effective and sustainable change.
• Showcase emerging agile tools and techniques, developing awareness and understanding to support effective adoption in practice.
• Work with leadership, teams and stakeholders to develop shared awareness of improvement opportunities across Sainsbury's Tech. Developing insights and data to inform regular cycles of reflection and improvement.
• Grow an effective agile community of practice, building excellence around the active sharing of knowledge, insights and experiences across the breadth of the organisation.
• Develop coaching strategy, focus and priorities aligning to the wider Sainsbury's Tech vision and strategy.

More about you

• Knowledge and significant experience of applying a range of Agile/Lean/DevOps principles and practices.
• Understanding of technical and business agility practices, and their role in enabling the early and continuous realisation of value.
• Understanding of agile software development practices.
• Experience in enabling transformation and improvement across a range of teams.
• Exceptionally developed coaching, mentoring, teaching and facilitation skills with teams and individuals.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and experience of working in matrix structures.
• Innovative and focused on continuous improvement, comfortable challenging the status quo and enabling change.
• Able to motivate and lead others as a coach.
• Evidence of coaching skills at a senior level.

Essential Criteria

• Deep understanding of Agile/Lean/DevOps principles and practices.
• Proven experience coaching teams and leaders at different levels of agile maturity.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence organisational change.

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you'll get:

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands - Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.