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Senior Agile Coach | S4 | Chief Operating Office | Milton Keynes

Senior Agile Coach | S4 | Chief Operating Office | Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

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Santander is currently in an exciting phase of its journey to pivot to more Agile ways of working, with the aim of delivering on our passion of being the easiest way to make our customers "better" happen.

We have created an Agile Centre of Excellence and are seeking an experienced Senior Agile Coach to lead our coaching team, deliver the day-to-day coaching, training and mentoring needed for new and existing Agile squads and tribes across the organisation.

You'll use a variety of skills creating and delivering live training offerings, helping the organisation understand the importance of delivering better value to our customers. If you're someone who's performed a similar role already, this is the perfect opportunity to develop your career

The difference you'll make.

• Facilitating and providing coaching to teams, tribes and leaders within Santander, helping the organisation move towards a more Agile mindset
• Setting up new tribes and teams and inspiring and supporting them in delivering value, quality and a great customer experience whilst increasing colleague happiness
• Being a true leader with the ability to step in, build relationships and work with teams and individuals at varying stages in their Agile journey
• Assisting teams or individuals broaden their knowledge of product by training them in techniques like value stream mapping, lean start up, user story mapping and prototyping
• Focussing on delivering value, building quality in and seeking feedback using iterative development methods
• Providing line management of less experienced coaches and grow the talent pool of future coaches.

What you'll bring.

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Extensive demonstrable skill and knowledge gained from experience as an Agile coach, including the coaching of senior leaders in an agile mindset and practices.
• Substantial knowledge of Agile in a variety of contexts, and organisations.
• Strong Scrum, Kanban and Lean knowledge, and experience of using, training and coaching tools and practices such as cynefin, OKRs, QBRs.
• Make sure that agile organisation and ways of working are continuously evaluated and improved
• Build and develop our agile coaching talent pool

It would also be nice for you to have.

• A rich set of facilitation, training, mentoring and coaching tools and techniques
• Demonstrable experience in continuous learning and providing knowledge to facilitate classes, workshops and other sharing events such as Meet-ups
• Experience in building, developing an agile organisation and/or agile ways of working
• Experience of line-management and growing teams in size and capability.

What else you need to know.

• This role is based in our Milton Keynes Office.
• We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
• If you apply for this role in this location, it's important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location(s).
• We're happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.
• This is a 12 month fixed term role.

Inclusion

At Santander we're creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we'll reward you:

As well as a competitive salary, you'll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don't contribute yourself. We'll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next.

If this sounds like a role you're interested in, then please apply.

If there's anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it's a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we're available through email. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk.