Agile Coach - Tesco Mobile
We are currently recruiting an Agile Coach to sit within the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Strategy and Agile. We are a team of 8 Agile Coaches. Our Technical Product Owner Chapter and Product Tribe Product Owner Chapter also sit in this CoE.
You will help train our squads (teams) and tribes on the Agile approach and frameworks and oversee the development of Agile teams to ensure successful adoption of Agile at Tesco Mobile and the delivery of our OKRs. In particular we are looking for somebody who has experience in helping guide the tribes to deliver value with the most effective structure and minimal dependencies.
The position requires guiding teams through the implementation process and promoting an Agile mentality within the team. Your ultimate goal is to arm our Agile teams with the right knowledge, tools and training so that they’ll be able to use Agile to its full potential.
You will be responsible for:
Mentoring teams to improve their performance (e.g. crafting psychological safety, and driving maturity in our ways of working)
Mentoring individuals to support continuous learning and unlocking their potential
Hardworking and engaging, promoting self-organisation and team spirit inside squads/tribes bringing a healthy challenge & promoting continuous improvement
Supporting the business to understand the appropriate practices and processes to apply based on the current context of work
Experts in guiding teams to achieve goals and breakthroughs to enhance business performance while maintaining consistency and alignment with value steering
Lead squad on-boarding to ensure the team is highly collaborative and successful with a foundational level training on our ways of working
Facilitating key squad ceremonies/events to demonstrate good practice in readiness for squads to be self-managing over time
Enable collaboration across-squads and Tribes and in helping identify and improve organisational-level challenges
Facilitating or supporting Tribe level events (e.g., Big Room Planning, reviews and retrospectives of goals and achievements)
Crafting an inclusive culture by creating connections, embracing uniqueness, role modelling key behaviours and caring for our colleagues
Assist teams in identifying and addressing organizational, team-related, or technical issues (impediments) by appropriately handling customer concerns and resolving them
Training the squad(s) on how to manage, track and demo their work, to supervise their ongoing progress
Support teams use data to make decisions and building a performance culture (e.g. understanding Flow, maturity assessments)
You will need:
Subject matter expertise in Agile domain e.g. design thinking in product development
Technical expertise in the domain of application e.g. expertise in e2e software development lifecycle, DevOps and IT architecture
Experience in mentoring and conflict resolution skills
Ability to communicate effectively within the squad, cross squad and Tribe (e.g. facilitating courageous conversations)
Continually developing your own mastery to support your own personal growth in order to better serve the business
Learning new tools and sharing techniques and knowledge to develop Coaching community
Understand the core levers of the business, curiosity to learn more
Clear focus on improving performance and an advocate of early value delivery
Prioritises time and effort to drive business results
Interacts with and engages all business partners
What's in it for you:
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
Private medical insurance
Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us:
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.
NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.
We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility
