Lean-Agile Coach

About The RoleTeam - Enterprise Architecture and EngineeringWorking Pattern - Hybrid - 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth Office. Full time, 35 hours per week. What this role is all about:We are looking for an experienced Agile Coach to join our Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence and help transition our business from its existing work practices to infusing understanding of scaled agile and business agility from the top-down.You will coach, mentor, and guide our people to figure out the best solutions for their specific difficulties. You will analyse the organisation's existing structure and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies. Ultimately, you will play a key role in the long-term strategy across the entire Enterprise organisation, supporting our teams to deliver better products in a faster, more efficient manner.Key Actions

• Facilitate learning and development through individual and team coaching and training
• Coach Journey Leadership in SAFe practices to ensure adoption of best practices from top-down
• Effectively communicate SAFe principles and practices and overall operating model across the organisation
• Champion the use of metrics and other measures to help drive continuous improvement across teams
• Keep an objective perspective on issues and apply agile principles to help understand the root cause

Essential Skills needed to fulfil this role:

• Strong leader, educator, and coach
• An excellent communicator and motivator
• Emotional intelligence-at a minimum, understand impact of choices on people, workflows, and business
• Technical fluency to effectively work with processes and workflows
• Certified as a SAFe SPC
• Other agile certifications beneficial e.g. Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), ICAgile Certified Professional, etc.
• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Coach working in a software delivery environment
• Experience in Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)
• Can showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments

So, what's in it for you?

• Bonus Schemes - A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%- We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award-winning Vitality health insurance - With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance - Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

• Help you to be the healthiest you've ever been.
• Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
• Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
• Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
• Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
• Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
• Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
• Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
• Be there for you when you need us.
• Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.About The CompanyVitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.We've been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives - they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We're successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people - and because we care.Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.Ready to find out if we're the right fit for you? We can't wait.Diversity & InclusionWe're committed to diversity and inclusion because it's good for our employees, for our business, and for society. To learn more please visit our Careers page.Vitality's approach to sustainabilityVitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.