Agile Coach at Woolworths

About the job

• AGILE COACH - 12 MONTH CONTRACT

Main Purpose
Provide hands-on guidance, support, and coaching to Agile teams and individuals across all roles and functions, advising teams, leading by example and challenging the status quo. Promote an environment and culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation with a common goal to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible.

Key Outcomes

• Coach and work closely with leadership to define strategies for transitioning to Agile practices with the aim of adopting an Agile mindset.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the organisation in order to navigate through the Agile transformation.
• Lead workshops & training sessions to educate individuals on Agile Values, Principles, Practices and framework training as required.
• Mentor and pair with change agents within the organisation on becoming true Agile champions and creating sustainable Agile capabilities.
• Coach and mentor peers on the Woolworths team on influencing organisational change.
• Proactively collaborate with key roles, including the Product Managers and Product Owners, to ensure alignment in the approach for achieving customer satisfaction.
• Coach Product Owners on Agile practices and execution.
• Coach Scrum Masters on Agile and Scrum Framework practices and support the self-organization of teams.
• Provide feedback and ideas to the Value Office and leadership on opportunities for improving our organization.
• Assess the current state of processes/practices and support defining an appropriate Agile delivery approach.
• Ensure that the Agile Delivery approach is documented (this may entail updating relevant existing documentation i.e. Agile Playbook)
• Coach teams facing tough challenges, for example related to how they work and interact together.

Competencies

• Passionate about Agile and Scrum.
• A committed, motivated and curious personality.
• Extensive knowledge on Agile tooling.
• Willing and able to contribute to Agile Communities of Practice in addition to coaching work.
• A strong communicator with advanced organizational skills.
• Mentoring, Teaching, Facilitation, Managing and resolving impediments.
• Experience in developing and delivering training.
• A good understanding and experience with Scaling Agile (for example Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Nexus)

Job Requirements

• A Degree in Management, Psychology, Computer Science, Technology or Engineering.
• At least 4 - 6 years of verifiable working experience as an agile coach for IT / business teams and managers.
• Good working knowledge of agile methods and frameworks (for example Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, Design Thinking, DevOps).
• Agile certifications, ideally at least one of the following: Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Programme Consultant (SPC), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP).
• Change management experience advantageous
• Retail and operations experience advantageous

“Woolworths supports vaccination against the COVID-19 virus as an occupational health and safety measure in its workplaces. In order to increase barriers against the virus in our workplace and safeguard our employees and customers, we encourage all our employees and potential employees to be fully vaccinated. Therefore, upon application you will be asked to present a valid certificate confirming you are fully vaccinated or provide reasons for you not being fully vaccinated.”
“As a proud South African brand, Woolworths is committed to transformation. Meeting our employment equity goals will be taken into account in our recruitment decisions”