Senior Agile Delivery Coach & Leader

Corecom Consulting; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Corecom Consulting in Leeds seeks an experienced Agile Coach to lead delivery across multiple squads in a growing digital organisation. You will define how great delivery should work and embed agile standards, coaching and operational structure.

You’ll influence delivery, coach project managers, manage RAID, drive capacity planning, and promote automation and AI to boost productivity across the business.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Agile delivery across multiple projects, teams or squads.
• Excellent knowledge of Agile methodologies and delivery best practice.
• Experience coaching and developing everyone.
• Strong risk, issue and dependency management experience.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the organisation’s Agile delivery methodology and ways of working.
• Establish consistent delivery standards across multiple squads and projects.
• Define effective sprint cadences, ceremonies and delivery processes.
• Coach and support embedded Project Managers through complex delivery challenges.
• Functionally line-manage and develop Project Managers and wider delivery professionals.
• Lead 1:1s, performance reviews, goal setting and development planning.
• Establish RAID (risk, assumption, issue and dependency) management.
• Identify and resolve risks, blockers and dependencies across teams.
• Lead capacity planning, resource forecasting and allocation across projects.
• Monitor delivery performance and report against key delivery KPIs.
• Help ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to scope.
• Continuously improve operational processes while avoiding bureaucracy.
• Build and lead a strong delivery community with knowledge sharing.
• Improve use of tools such as Jira, Confluence and resource-planning platforms.
• Identify opportunities to use automation and AI to improve productivity.

Skills

Agile delivery

Delivery leadership

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Resource-planning platforms

Job description

Corecom Consulting in Leeds seeks an experienced Agile Coach to lead delivery across multiple squads in a growing digital organisation. You will define how great delivery should work and embed agile standards, coaching and operational structure.

You’ll influence delivery, coach project managers, manage RAID, drive capacity planning, and promote automation and AI to boost productivity across the business.