Agile Coach
Kingfisher plc
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Job summary
Kingfisher plc in Kraków is seeking an experienced Agile Coach to enable squads to perform at their best and continuously improve how they deliver value. You will coach ceremonies, foster Kingfisher's Agile processes, and use data to drive sustainable improvement across the organisation.
You'll partner with Domain and Sub-Domain Leaders, support grass-roots changes, and help embed a high-performance culture. Excellent English and proven coaching capability are essential for success.
Qualifications
- Knowledge of Scrum and Agile frameworks and ceremonies.
- Experience coaching teams in large, complex organisations.
- Ability to drive change and deliver lasting improvements.
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management abilities.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
Responsibilities
- Coach squads to run Agile ceremonies and improve delivery.
- Embed Kingfisher Agile processes and tooling across teams.
- Provide data-driven insights to identify and track improvements.
- Support Domain and Sub-Domain Leaders with delivery excellence.
- Induct new members into Agile at Kingfisher.
Skills
Job description
(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)
We’reKingfisher, a team made up of over74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.That’sright,we’rebig, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. Andthat’swhere you come in.
At Kingfisher, our customers come from allwalks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, genderexpressionor sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office,locatedin Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encouragenew ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
- Medicoversports card (Fit&Morepackage)
- Life insurance financed by the employer
- 30-minute lunch break included in the 8-hour working day
- Work in a highly professional and stimulating atmosphere
- Training & Buddy programme that will allow you to quickly adapt to your new role
- Wellbeing programme for employees
- Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow
- Comfortable working environment in the office and the possibility of home office
- Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification
- Employee referral programme
Agile Coach
(Hybrid/Kraków – 1 day per week in the office)
We’reKingfisher, a team made up of over74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix, BricoDépôtandKoçtaş- to life.That’sright,we’rebig, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. Andthat’swhere you come in.
At Kingfisher, our customers come from allwalks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, genderexpressionor sexual orientation.
We are open to flexible and agile working. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our office,locatedin Kraków. Talk to us about how we can best support you!
At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles, even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.
In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encouragenew ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self.
We offer a competitive benefit package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career:
- Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dentalcare) for you and your family
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Agile practitioner who is passionate about enabling teams to perform at their best and continuously improve how they deliver value.
In this role, you will support squads in increasing their Agile maturity and enhancing delivery outcomes. You will coach teams on effective Agile practices and ceremonies, ensuring they are outcome-focused and aligned with businessobjectives. Byleveragingperformance and maturity data, you willidentifyimprovement opportunities, trackprogressand help embed sustainable, scalable ways of working across the organisation.
Ifyou'relooking for an exciting opportunity to step out of your comfort zone and make a real impact building better software, this is the job for you!
Responsibilities
- Coach and teach the squad to successfully run all agreed Agile ceremonies, including (but not limited to); daily stand ups, backlog refinement, amigos, quarterly planning, sprintplanningand retrospectives.
- Coach the squad to work within Kingfisher Agile processes, principles,toolingand frameworks
- Deliver Targeted Learning activity in response to feedback from Domain / Sub Domain Leadership and Lead Agile Coaches
- Provide the squad with data and insights to enable them to continually improve. Coach the squad on how to use this reporting and data to improve.
- Gather data and insight from the Squad for use within Business Partnering sessions with Domain / Sub Domain Leadership
- Support Squads to introduce new ways of working and support grass roots improvement in line with plans agreed by Domain and Sub-Domain Leaders
- Provide assurance services at the Squad Level to understand alignment to Kingfisher Technology Standards and Principles, compliance with Enterprise Processes and toidentifyskill and capability gaps. Share data and insight to support identification of actions that could enable increased Squad / Team success.
- Conduct Maturity Assessments to understand Agile Maturity at the Squad level andidentifyactions that could enable increased Squad / Team success.
- Provide input to the Agile CoP, sharing insight and running sessions targeted to drive delivery excellence and continuous improvement
- Share industry knowledge, bestpracticeandexpertiseto enable Agile capability and squads toidentifyways to continually improve
- Induct new members of the team into 'Agile at Kingfisher'
- Provide team building and performance coaching to improve culture and communication
- Support targeted ideation,improvementand innovation events at the Domain / Sub-Domain level, using data and insight toidentifyimprovement areas and work with Squads to implement improvement ideas.
- Proven experience of Scrum and Agile practices
- Agile coach experience in a complex and large Agile organisation
- Proven ability to drive change, take ownership of their delivery and be an effective communicator
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills
- Able to work under pressure and prioritise workload effectively
- Has a recognised Agile Practice Qualification
- Excellent command of English (written and spoken)
Private medical healthcare at LUXMED (including dental care) for you and your family.
Medicover sports card (Fit&More package).
Language courses, accounting courses, access to LinkedIn Learning and the possibility of co-financing studies and certification.
Life insurance at Generali financed by the employer.
Opportunity to earn annual bonus that aligns to work level of role.
Parking spaces and LOTOS card.
Co-financing of monthly tickets.
Co-financing of monthly tickets for the public transport in Krakow (50% discount).
At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.
We are open
Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.
We are brave
Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.
We win together
Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.
Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.
There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.
You'll be able to have regular conversations with managers about personal development and gain a better understanding about what you want to achieve and how to achieve it.
Improving without instruments to help you learn is near impossible. That's why we make sure you have everything at your fingertips to find exactly what you need to keep growing.
With plans that ask you what you want to achieve and when you want to achieve them by, tracking progress and keeping development at the forefront of conversation is easy.
The scale of group functions within Kingfisher is huge. That means you have the chance to build different career paths within multiple areas of the organisation.
We aren't selfish here at Kingfisher. Whatever your level of experience, you'll work with colleagues who are always welcoming and ready to share their knowledge whenever you need it.
So your ambitions are high? Good thing we have opportunities to find experiences in line with more senior roles and responsibilities. Here, you can evolve your career, no matter your level.
We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?
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