Business Agility Partner

Job Description

Purpose of the role

Guides teams, leaders, and organizations in adopting and optimizing Agile practices.To foster an Agile mindset, enhance team performance, and drive continuous improvement by coaching teams in Agile methodologies, facilitating collaboration, and removing barriers to efficiency.Align Agile practices with organisational goals and support long-term, sustainable Agile transformations.

Accountabilities

• Mentor and coach : Guide teams and leaders on Agile principles, practices, tools, and methodologies in alignment to the Business Unit’s strategic needs and delivering value to the client / customers

• Facilitate Colleague Development:Coach and Develop colleagues to embed Agile ways of working, championing an Agile mindset and behaviors to drive cultural change

• Build High-Performing Teams: Help teams identify and address impediments to Agile execution and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning

• Continuous Improvement: Use data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and growth

• Cross Business Collaboration: Collaborate with other Agile Coaches, share best practice and contribute to a network of Agile champions across Business Units

• Agile Adoption: Own the Agile coaching strategy to continually improve maturity levels across the organisation by embedding best practices.

As a Business Agility Partner, you'll work within our Transformation team to provide critical agile coaching and support across Enterprise Programmes. You'll play an important part in the adoption of BUK ways of working, providing key thought leadership and provision of technique support to teams across BUK Customer Journey Labs, including the accelerated customer journey transformation. Within this role, the successful candidate will act as a role model to drive change and application of core skills, understand team performance and lead workshops on adoption of new ways of working, including agile values, principles, practices, and frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. You will be responsible for the creation and execution of a project control framework encompassing resource, financial control, and governance/compliance management either on an individual project/programme basis or as part of a business wide remit.

To be successful as a Business Agility Partner, you should have:

• A deep understanding of Agile and Scrum principles, management practices, and tools (e.g. Jira)
• Relevant Agile certifications (e.g. SAFe)
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• High adaptability and resilience

Other highly valued skills may include:

• Change management and delivery experience
• Proven ability to balance data-driven decision-making with strategic goals
• Project management experience and proficiency in project management tools (e.g. Navigator)

We are happy to consider those who can work from either our Northampton, London, Knutsford and Glasgow site.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.