Senior Manager, Agile Coach - HR Strategic Solutions

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the Americas is seeking a Senior Manager, Agile Coach for its HR Strategic Solutions team in Toronto. This role involves leading agile delivery practices and coaching HR business leaders to optimize operations. The ideal candidate will have significant experience with agile frameworks, strong problem-solving and facilitation skills, and a passion for mentoring teams. Benefits include a competitive rewards package and access to career development opportunities.

Benefits

Career progression opportunities

Performance bonus

Health benefits

Flexible learning access

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading and managing agile delivery teams.
• 2+ years delivering with variety of Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
• Strong relationship skills, with demonstrated experience with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Guide and coach HR and business leaders to refine delivery across Talent Strategy.
• Lead and coach scrum masters to align on cadence and delivery objectives.
• Design and refine tracking operational reports for reporting progress.

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership

Agile frameworks knowledge

Facilitation skills

Communication skills

Customer orientation

Tools

Kanban

Scrum Boards

Job description

Senior Manager, Agile Coach - HR Strategic Solutions

Requisition ID: 243721

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

As a forward-thinking HR function within a leading global organization, we are redefining how HR delivers value through our journey-based operating model. Our approach centers on creating seamless, end-to-end experiences for employees and leaders, ensuring that every interaction supports their growth and success. By leveraging agile principles, we design innovative, people-centric solutions that align with enterprise priorities and drive measurable impact.

Our team is composed of high-performing, curious, and collaborative professionals who thrive in a high-trust, agile environment. Together, we deliver best-in-class HR solutions that empower our workforce and enable business transformation. If you are passionate about shaping the future of HR and contributing to meaningful employee journeys, we invite you to join us.

Are you ready to help shape the future of HR?

If so, join us and help redefine the employee experience across our global enterprise!

As a Leader in Human Resources, Talent Strategy, you will be in a high-impact role, coaching, guiding and facilitating a team of HR and business leaders, to continuously improve delivery of our industry leading digital banking experience.

You will leverage your natural leadership skills partnering with product, engineering, design and other delivery stakeholders to continually elevate delivery efficiency by identifying opportunities for improvement, removing friction, simplifying operations and processes and maximizing alignment across delivery teams and business lines.

In this role:

You are a hands-on leader with a growth mindset, applying creativity and passion to explore opportunities to elevate our HR agile delivery practices to levels that the industry will want to mimic; while actively supporting delivery to our current commitments.

You are an influencer, a forward thinking individual who embraces change, you are curious, flexible and looking for ways to grow and learn yourself while sharing that learning with your colleagues.

You are passionate and on any given day you champion and look for avenues to further refine and evolve our Talent Strategy, focused on creating and sustaining delivery capacity with speed and efficiency.

Ability to facilitate problem solving sessions that lead to identifying, clarifying issues with clear outlined next steps and key owners for those next steps.

You have experience working cross-functionally and are able to influence and help organize HR and business leaders as well as technical teams across the bank.

The role requires significant interaction with senior business and HR leadership, consequently effective communications commensurate with the audience and the ability to promote an idea and gain consensus is critical.

What will you do?

Guide and coach a team of HR and business line leaders, to establish an operating cadence and continuously refine delivery across the Talent Strategy portfolio.

You actively participate and support the portfolio team on operationalizing their cadence.

Lead and coach scrum masters and other stakeholders as needed to align on cadence, delivery objectives and to continuously improve their delivery capabilities.

Coordinate with other portfolio managers, ensuring alignment on cadence and overall delivery across the entire enterprise portfolio.

Design and refine tracking and monitoring operational reports that highlight progress to the Talent Strategy roadmap, OKR activity and organizational health. These systems enable operational dashboards that are used to report out to the leadership team regularly.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role?

• Diplomatic yet willing to have hard conversations with team members, product owner and delivery partners when there are challenges, issues impeding delivery execution.
• Solid analytical and critical thinking skills with an ability to communicate at levels with all key organizational partners.
• Exceptional working and practical knowledge of delivery frameworks for effective workflow visualization and management (Kanban, Scrum Boards, etc.).
• 5+ years of experience leading and managing agile delivery teams.
• 2+ years delivering with variety of Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
• Passion for leading and coaching teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality of work.
• Strong relationship- skills, with demonstrated experience with cross-functional teams.
• Agile ‘mindset’ with flexibility to inspect, adapt, pivot, navigate through varying set of priorities.
• Eager to mentor, coach, teach.
• Exceptional facilitation skills with fact based problem solving skills to solve for high priority issues.
• Excellent written, verbal, virtual and live communication skills.
• Enthusiastic, thorough and results-oriented; ability to help Team thrive in fast-paced environment.
• Strong customer orientation and focus with the ability to interact with all levels of organization.

What's in it for you?

We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!

Access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can brush up on skills or learn new ones.

Career progression opportunities. We hire you for your talent and not just for the job. We want to see you succeed not just in your role but in your career as a whole.

We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), vacation, personal & sick days, paternity/maternity leave, medical, vision and dental benefits and much more.

Location(s)

Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here.