Agile Coach

Sanofi US; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 93,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global healthcare company in Toronto is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to drive agile transformation and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This role involves coaching teams, mentoring Scrum Masters and Product Owners, and promoting agile values across the organization. Applicants should have a Bachelor's degree and over 5 years of relevant experience. Competitive salary and benefits are available.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing benefits

Growth and development opportunities

Thoughtful rewards package

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven success in coaching Product Owners and teams.
• Experience in working with domain-specific metrics.

Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor teams in adopting agile principles and behaviors.
• Support collaboration between cross-functional product teams.
• Drive organizational change and support agile transformation.

Skills

Coaching Product Owners

Agile principles

Lean practices

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

UX/UI principles

Job description

Overview

Reference No. R2825878

Position Title: Agile Coach

Department: Agile Coaching

Location: Toronto, Canada

About the Job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. We are seeking an experienced Senior Agile Coach in Toronto to join our Global Agile CoE. As an Agile Coach, you will play a crucial role in driving agile transformation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within our organization.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor teams in adopting agile principles and behaviors
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, continuous delivery and outcome-driven decision-making
• Guide sustainable cadence in product development
• Bring agility into product discovery and hypothesis validation thinking
• Learning from data and make decisions from it
• Support collaboration between cross-functional product teams (PO, Full-Stack Developers, Data Professionals, UX/UI) & business stakeholders; identify and remove impediments for continuous flow and improvement
• Drive organizational change and support teams to embrace a product mindset through their agile transformation journey
• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members
• Promote agile values, principles, and mindset across the organization
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align agile practices in service of achieving business objectives
• Develop best practices and templates for contracting with vendors providing Agile delivery services
• Contribute to setup and ongoing improvement of Agile CoE’s training packages, service offerings and practices
• Provide advice on process and structural changes at the organization level
• Suggest organizational policies to support Agile ways of working
• Document emergent operating model principles that aid in successful product discovery and hypothesis validation

About You

Required Qualifications

Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree required.

Experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Proven success in coaching Product Owners and teams to scale products across multiple countries and stakeholders
• Track-record of success as an Agile Coach in complex environments
• Experience in working in domain knowledge (e.g. knowledge of industry regulations, domain-specific metrics, and business processes)
• Proven participation in successful, global agile transformation

Technical Skills

• Solid knowledge of Lean & Agile practices, UX/UI and Application Design & Integration
• Understand the technology stack and be able to guide the team on best practices for tool selection, integration, and usage
• Demonstrated understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks relevant to highly regulated industries
• Strong facilitation, teaching, mentoring and coaching skills
• Experience with organization design and operating model considerations
• Change management expertise

Soft skills

• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, backlog management, and release planning for achieving significant outcomes
• Excellent communication, mentoring, and leadership skills for effective coaching and team influence
• Be comfortable promoting a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement within the team

About Agile CoE

The purpose of Agile CoE is to cultivate high-performing teams that efficiently create products accelerating Sanofi’s journey from discovery to therapy. Agile CoE is a global collective of agilists committed to accelerating speed of product delivery by instilling a product mindset in a learning organization that has a fit-for-purpose operating model.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs

This position is a new vacant role that we are actively hiring for.

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants. Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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North America Applicants Only

The salary range for this position is:

$93,900.00 - $156,500.00

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the link.

The salary range for this position in French:

$93,900.00 - $156,500.00

Toute compensation sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience démontrée. Les employés peuvent être admissibles à participer aux programmes d'avantages sociaux de l'entreprise. Des informations supplémentaires sur les avantages sont disponibles via le lien.