Agile Coach Product Owner

National Highways; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Agile Coach to lead the transformation towards agile methodologies within their Digital Services team. This hybrid role involves coaching individuals and teams to embrace agile practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and empowering cross-functional collaboration. As a champion of agility, you will play a crucial role in developing strategies that enhance delivery efficiency and drive business value. Join this forward-thinking organization and help shape the future of digital services while making a meaningful impact on team dynamics and project outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Agile Coach in a digital environment.
• Deep knowledge of agile principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Coach teams to adopt an agile mindset and deliver efficiently.
• Act as an agile champion and advise on best practices.

Skills

Agile Coaching

Scrum

Kanban

Continuous Improvement

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Education

Relevant qualification in Agile methodologies

Tools

Agile Tools and Techniques

Job description

About the role.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for an Agile Coach to join our team in Digital Services. The Agile Coach role will coach and support individuals and teams as we continue to embrace more agile ways of working across Digital Services and National Highways. This role will build capability and excellence with regards to all things agile and will represent and champion the work of the Agile Centre of Excellence (CoE) within Digital Services and across National Highways.

The Agile Coach role will also help to create an agile environment, putting in place the systems, processes, coaching, roles, and ways of working to sustain a high performing team to deliver business value more efficiently. They will bring in best practice thinking from the wider agile community and promote the "one team" approach when embedding agile frameworks / policies / standards for Digital Services and external suppliers to adhere to and be assured against.

Please note this is a hybrid position and can be based from any of our UK offices however travel to Birmingham to attend team meetings will be required.

• As part of the Agile CoE, you'll help develop and embed the strategy for agility across Digital Services covering key topics such as agile contracting, agile financing, quarterly business planning and review etc to define best practise for how, when, why this is done
• Coach individuals and teams using a combination of observation, hands on coaching and support and training, to help them adopt an agile mindset and deliver in an agile way. Work with teams to set them up for success, encouraging self-organisation and collaboration in cross functional teams
• Act as an agile champion and advise the wider delivery community on how best to apply these methods to teams / project delivery to ensure faster realisation of value, minimum viable product approach, prioritisation, and links to strategic objectives
• Help support professional development of the Digital Services team with regards to Agile, Scrum, Kanban etc
• Coaching and developing the capability of key agile roles, including Scrum Master and Product Owner, providing Agile training to these roles, and to team members and stakeholders where required e.g., in the removal of day-to-day issues and blockers for Scrum Masters, or supporting the delivery of product roadmaps and prioritised backlogs for Product Owners.

About you.

• Relevant qualification or proven experience as an Agile Coach in a digital organisation with demonstrable experience in coaching, educating, inspiring and motivating teams.
• Deep knowledge and experience of a broad range of agile topics, tools, techniques, principles and practices with ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent ability to drive an agile culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience of enabling the leadership of delivery and achievement of outcomes in cross functional teams, empowering collaboration, and self-organisation to succeed
• Enthusiastic and engaging with ability to act as a source of motivation for individuals and teams and able to lead teams to self-organisation.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

The Digital Services Directorate is helping to reshape the way National Highways operates by delivering digital, data, and technology services across all areas, from frontline to back office, in a modern and efficient manner. Our vision is to develop integrated information and technology that empowers our colleagues and provides real-time information to our customers, as well as integrating with intelligent vehicle and transport systems as they evolve, to enhance journey safety and reliability.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.