Global Agile Leader COE

The Global Agile Leader is a change agent responsible for deploying agile principles and the scrum process within product development and innovation teams throughout the organization. This role will provide scrum process ownership and servant leadership within teams as the scrum master/mentor. The scrum mentor’s responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

This role will also serve as a resource for agile best practices and facilitation including training, process and tool development and innovation activities. Ultimately, this position will play a key role in the long-term strategy to become a more agile organization, help our teams accelerate and meet our customers’ needs. This role will report to the Global Manager – Agile.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years hard goods manufacturing or product development experience required. MBA preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong engineering background required, with demonstrated ability to understand technical product development, engineering processes, and cross-functional engineering dependencies.

• Proven results working as a facilitator or servant leader in an agile or innovation environment.
• Working knowledge of agile or scrum framework is a plus, the expectation being it will be required after accepting role.

• Experience leading or participating in global product development and launches a plus.
• Experience across multiple functions (marketing, operations, manufacturing, etc.) in addition to engineering is a plus.
• Must have strong Microsoft Office Suite experience (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and collaboration tool experience (Teams, Zoom, Mural, Miro, etc.)

Core Competencies:

Communications: Proven record of effective written and oral communication skills. Must be effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among divers styles and position levels. Must be able to attentively listens to others and adjust to fit the audience and the message

Leaderships:

• Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings
• Ability to maneuver comfortably through process and worldwide people-related organizational dynamics
• Ability to drive engagement and ensure accountability to meet commitments without having direct authority
• Ability to manage ambiguity when things are not certain or clear
• Ability to coach individual team members on agile principles and scrum framework and how to use them successfully
• Ability to manage conflict effectively with minimum of noise
• Ability to optimize work processes to get things done effectively and efficiently



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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

It is expected that the Agile Leader will be responsible for the following:



• Facilitate cross functional teams utilizing agile processes including Scrum
• Own the scrum process at the team level and ensure the process is followed
• Coach the team on the process, process improvement and ‘Doing Good Scrum’
• Track team metrics to gather insight into the overall health of the team
• Target process improvements to drive increases in team velocity and happiness
• Enable teams to accelerate through impediment identification, removal and escalation
• Utilize relationships throughout the organization to remove impediments and resource conflicts
• Assists teams with long term planning and macro estimation to enable resource planning and impediment identification
• Facilitate backlog refinement as well as value vs effort activities to help teams curate a prioritized and ready backlog
• Facilitate risk discussions to help teams mitigate risks and fail fast
• Effectively communicate agile principles and scrum practices across the organization
• Utilize BAC’s innovation process to lead teams though new challenges
• Support process and tool developments to further the Agile COE



WORKING CONDITIONS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk up to 30% of the time. This position requires occasional lifting of up to 30 lbs., and travel of 10% of the time.