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JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead (Agile Coach)
SALARY: £62,874-69,860 per annum
LOCATION: Chester
HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in our Chester office; as such, we can only consider applications that are based within a commutable distance from our office in Chester. If you are not currently based in Chester but have plans to relocate, please do clarify this in your application.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY Are you an experienced
Agile Coach
and passionate about mentoring teams to optimise their working practices?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a
Business Agility Lead
(BAL), that will support teams across the bank in
agile coaching
driving effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace.
In this role you’ll:
Work hand in hand with Lab Leaders (lab typically comprises 100-150 colleagues), who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst
providing coaching and transferring capabilities
so that teams are ultimately
able to do this for themselves
in time.
Use your experience in
product delivery
and
customer-centric
value hypothesis to empower and drive
mindset and culture change
across the labs.
Understand data and insights
and use it to
problem-solve
and support Lab performance and
productivity
to drive lab
cadence, and data quality.
Be jointly responsible for the performance of the lab including
data quality ,
optimising flow of work, Lab topology,
and
agile practices .
Introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track.
Support colleagues within your lab and platform to
implement and refine agile practices
(e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge.
Put your
expertise in the different agile approaches
into practice and use your own judgement to
decide when and where to apply them, whilst ensuring they are embedded throughout.
Use your knowledge in
Agile Methodology and Tooling , to
stand up new agile teams , providing
coaching and advice
and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.
Support and coach teams
with various techniques,
including facilitation, training and education where required and continuously evolving market insights.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED We’re actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from candidates with different backgrounds and ways of thinking.
To be successful in this role, however, you would as a minimum need to demonstrate experience in all of the below in your application:
Agile Coaching:
Proven experience in Agile Coaching (with relevant certifications e.g. Kanban, PSM3, coaching or other equivalent qualifications etc.).
Experience in coaching and influencing senior leadership in adopting agile ways of working and behaviors and in product-based delivery.
Agile Toolset:
Working experience of using Agile toolset including
JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence.
Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and data-led decision making.
Evidenced experience in using data and insights to problem solve driving productivity and cadence.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar.
ABOUT WORKING FOR US Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organizations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know in your application, so tell us how we can support you!
BENEFITS We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more! By joining our Talent Community your profile will be visible to our recruitment teams, who are constantly looking to match outstanding talent with our current and future opportunities. Just complete the short form and we’ll be able to keep you up to date.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead (Agile Coach)
SALARY: £62,874-69,860 per annum
LOCATION: Chester
HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in our Chester office; as such, we can only consider applications that are based within a commutable distance from our office in Chester. If you are not currently based in Chester but have plans to relocate, please do clarify this in your application.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY Are you an experienced
Agile Coach
and passionate about mentoring teams to optimise their working practices?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a
Business Agility Lead
(BAL), that will support teams across the bank in
agile coaching
driving effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace.
In this role you’ll:
Work hand in hand with Lab Leaders (lab typically comprises 100-150 colleagues), who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst
providing coaching and transferring capabilities
so that teams are ultimately
able to do this for themselves
in time.
Use your experience in
product delivery
and
customer-centric
value hypothesis to empower and drive
mindset and culture change
across the labs.
Understand data and insights
and use it to
problem-solve
and support Lab performance and
productivity
to drive lab
cadence, and data quality.
Be jointly responsible for the performance of the lab including
data quality ,
optimising flow of work, Lab topology,
and
agile practices .
Introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track.
Support colleagues within your lab and platform to
implement and refine agile practices
(e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge.
Put your
expertise in the different agile approaches
into practice and use your own judgement to
decide when and where to apply them, whilst ensuring they are embedded throughout.
Use your knowledge in
Agile Methodology and Tooling , to
stand up new agile teams , providing
coaching and advice
and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.
Support and coach teams
with various techniques,
including facilitation, training and education where required and continuously evolving market insights.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED We’re actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from candidates with different backgrounds and ways of thinking.
To be successful in this role, however, you would as a minimum need to demonstrate experience in all of the below in your application:
Agile Coaching:
Proven experience in Agile Coaching (with relevant certifications e.g. Kanban, PSM3, coaching or other equivalent qualifications etc.).
Experience in coaching and influencing senior leadership in adopting agile ways of working and behaviors and in product-based delivery.
Agile Toolset:
Working experience of using Agile toolset including
JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence.
Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and data-led decision making.
Evidenced experience in using data and insights to problem solve driving productivity and cadence.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar.
ABOUT WORKING FOR US Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organizations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know in your application, so tell us how we can support you!
BENEFITS We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance-related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more! By joining our Talent Community your profile will be visible to our recruitment teams, who are constantly looking to match outstanding talent with our current and future opportunities. Just complete the short form and we’ll be able to keep you up to date.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
