An opportunity to shape the Agile Strategy within NFU Mutual.
A chance to coach and direct to achieve higher levels of agile maturity.
Hybrid working with the option to work 80% of your hours from home.
About the role
We’re looking for an experienced Agile Coach to join the Agile Centre of Excellence & Enablement to support the Organisation with its adoption and implementation of lean-agile and agility across the organisation and help in our transition to a product-based organisation. As an Agile Coach, you’ll be responsible for shaping an enduring Agile Strategy and “Ways of Working “and coaching and directing our Leaders, Scrum Masters and Teams on Agile Methodologies to achieve higher levels of agile maturity. In addition, the Agile Coach will be responsible for fostering collaboration, optimising processes, and helping teams deliver value to customers efficiently. The Agile Coach acts as a mentor, role model, trainer, and change agent to enable teams to reach their full potential in adopting Lean-Agile practices. The Agile Coach will ensure engagement with the external agile community via seminars and reading ensuring NFU Mutual “leads” in its adoption of Lean-Agile ways of working. About you
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate coaching and have experience in guiding, coaching, training and mentoring Leaders, Managers and Teams on Agile Methodologies, ways of working and product-based organisations. You’ll display a continuous improvement mindset and highlight opportunities to improve the team’s lean-agile capability. You’ll hold extensive knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks (Including ADO) such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps, and be knowledgeable about Agile techniques like: Estimating, User Stories and Continuous Integration. Setting up, coaching, and training new scrum teams in their adoption of NFU Mutual’s scaled agile operating model, guardrails and best practice ADO will form a key part of this role, whilst being able to work collaboratively and individually as required. You’ll also communicate effectively via your skills in both written and verbal forms. To be successful in this role, you’ll also have: Demonstrable equivalent industry experience within Agile Coaching (Essential). Industry experience in a scaled agile environment (Essential). General coaching qualification or internal coaching training (Essential). Prince2 Agile or DSDM project management, and Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master (Desirable). At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees. We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including: Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary) Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities Private medical insurance + options to add family members Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies. Working at NFU Mutual
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024. We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future. We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1 billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from. Our ethos - of trust, respect and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.
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We’re looking for an experienced Agile Coach to join the Agile Centre of Excellence & Enablement to support the Organisation with its adoption and implementation of lean-agile and agility across the organisation and help in our transition to a product-based organisation. As an Agile Coach, you’ll be responsible for shaping an enduring Agile Strategy and “Ways of Working “and coaching and directing our Leaders, Scrum Masters and Teams on Agile Methodologies to achieve higher levels of agile maturity. In addition, the Agile Coach will be responsible for fostering collaboration, optimising processes, and helping teams deliver value to customers efficiently. The Agile Coach acts as a mentor, role model, trainer, and change agent to enable teams to reach their full potential in adopting Lean-Agile practices. The Agile Coach will ensure engagement with the external agile community via seminars and reading ensuring NFU Mutual “leads” in its adoption of Lean-Agile ways of working. About you
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate coaching and have experience in guiding, coaching, training and mentoring Leaders, Managers and Teams on Agile Methodologies, ways of working and product-based organisations. You’ll display a continuous improvement mindset and highlight opportunities to improve the team’s lean-agile capability. You’ll hold extensive knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks (Including ADO) such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, DevOps, and be knowledgeable about Agile techniques like: Estimating, User Stories and Continuous Integration. Setting up, coaching, and training new scrum teams in their adoption of NFU Mutual’s scaled agile operating model, guardrails and best practice ADO will form a key part of this role, whilst being able to work collaboratively and individually as required. You’ll also communicate effectively via your skills in both written and verbal forms. To be successful in this role, you’ll also have: Demonstrable equivalent industry experience within Agile Coaching (Essential). Industry experience in a scaled agile environment (Essential). General coaching qualification or internal coaching training (Essential). Prince2 Agile or DSDM project management, and Certified Scrum Professional Scrum Master (Desirable). At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees. We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background. Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including: Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary) Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities Private medical insurance + options to add family members Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs Health and wellbeing plan- cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies. Working at NFU Mutual
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024. We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future. We are a leading provider of General Insurance and Financial Services. From our strong farming roots we’ve grown to become a UK-wide organisation, turning over £1 billion annually. Yet success hasn’t gone to our heads. We’re proud to remain completely customer focused, down-to-earth and committed to the rural communities we’ve grown from. Our ethos - of trust, respect and personal service - lies at the heart of all we do and has seen us build an enviable reputation for exceptional member loyalty. Though we’ve been in business for over 110 years, we have big ambitions for the future. And that’s why we’re looking for talented people to join our growing organisation. Talented people like you.
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