Agile Coach - 12 Month FTC

AXA UK; Bolton, Tunbridge Wells, Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is looking for an experienced Agile Coach in Bolton to lead agile adoption and support cultural change. This role involves coaching teams, facilitating workshops, and partnering with leadership to enhance agile practices. Candidates should have proven experience in Agile delivery within complex environments and strong facilitation skills. The position offers flexibility between home and office work, competitive salary, and excellent benefits including a contributory pension scheme and private medical cover.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Discretionary performance-based bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance up to 10 x annual salary

Private medical cover

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Opportunity to buy or sell extra leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience coaching teams and leaders in Agile delivery.
• Deep understanding of frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP and Lean.
• Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Coach product tribes and stakeholders to adopt agile practices.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and workshops to enhance performance.
• Identify and resolve systemic impediments.

Skills

Coaching teams in Agile delivery

Facilitation skills

Stakeholder engagement

Understanding of change management

Knowledge of CI/CD concepts

Education

Agile certifications (e.g., ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, CSP)

Job description

Description

We're seeking an experienced Agile Coach to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract. You'll play a pivotal role in driving agile adoption and cultural change across AXA UK. This is a unique opportunity to shape how we deliver value, empower teams and embed agile practices at scale. You’ll work closely with leadership, product teams and stakeholders to foster an agile mindset and support our ambitious transformation goals.

This role offers a chance to lead significant organisational change, contribute to a major agile transformation and support the development of a new product operating model. If you thrive in dynamic environments and are passionate about enabling organisational agility, we want to hear from you.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least two days a week (40%) away from home, moving to three days a week (60%) in the future. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll be doing:

• Coach product tribes, leadership and stakeholders to adopt and embed agile mindsets, values and practices.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, workshops and maturity assessments to enhance tribe performance.
• Act as a change agent, enabling agility at scale through targeted interventions and coaching plans.
• Partner with Tribe Leads, Product Owners and Scrum Masters to support backlog management, prioritisation and cross-team collaboration.
• Identify systemic impediments and work with leadership to resolve delivery blockers.
• Develop and deliver tailored training sessions based on agile maturity and business needs.
• Track agile adoption progress and provide feedback to governance and transformation forums.
• Contribute to the Agile Community of Practice by sharing insights, metrics and tooling improvements.

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience coaching teams and leaders in Agile delivery within complex, regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP and Lean, with practical tailoring experience.
• Excellent facilitation, mentoring and stakeholder engagement skills.
• An understanding of change management capabilities, with the ability to navigate resistance and ambiguity.
• Comfortable working with engineering teams and conversant in technical concepts like CI/CD, testing, and architecture.
• Experience engaging with senior leadership, including exco-level conversations.
• Agile certifications (e.g., "ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, CSP") are preferred.
• Ability to work across large groups (150+ people) and adapt to various business areas and organisational contexts.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

Internal candidates are encouraged to apply for this role as a secondment opportunity through the internal careers site.

What we offer:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Discretionary company & performance-based bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• Private medical cover
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• Wellbeing services & resources
• AXA employee discounts

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Who we are:

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.