Lead Agile Coach

The Agile Transformation Coach is responsible for leading and championing agility across the organization. In this role you will assist teams across our businesses in adopting the FBIN Agile mindset principles and best practices. Use subject matter expertise and act as a change agent to coach influence teach and mentor employees at all levels regarding the ways of working key behaviors and frameworks that drive success.

Location:  Deerfield IL Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Agile Transformation Engagements Achieve stakeholderdefined outcomes by implementing FBIN Agile practices throughout the organization to enhance business unit agility and delivery efficiency.
• Advise Leadership & Stakeholders Collaborate with product owners senior management and executives to define and evolve the Agile transformation roadmap and governance model. This model focuses on business value driving outcomes and a faster time to market.
• Coach & Mentor Teams and Coaches Guide crossfunctional teams Scrum Masters and other Agile Transformation Coaches in agile principles ceremonies and consistently encourage continuous improvement. Use coaching techniques that increase collaboration transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
• Build Agile Delivery Mindset Offer strategic guidance on Agile methodologies effectively facilitating conflict resolution and removing obstacles to expedite delivery and ensure overall team and individual success.
• Design and Facilitate Agile Ceremonies Develop and facilitate Scrum events ensuring they are actionoriented resultsdriven and timebound.
• Promote Open Communication Facilitate open communication among teams and stakeholders; promote an inclusive positive environment for strong collaborations and work effectiveness
• Share Best Practices Partner with other Agile Transformation Coaches to exchange insights standardize practices and scale successful approaches across multiple teams and portfolios.
• Measure & Report Progress Define key performance indicators (KPIs) such as flow efficiency cycle time and team health to measure adoption. Guide teams in analyzing these metrics. Conduct Agile maturity assessments and present status and improvement opportunities to leadership.
• Focus on Team Health Monitor the teams health ensuring commitments pace and quality are on track. Help the team understand how to inspect and adapt as needed.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Agile Coaching Experience Minimum 58 years in Agile roles with at least 3 years leading or managing Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters at an enterprise scale. Demonstrated experience in implementing coaching and teaching Agile including support of Mission/OKR development prioritization metrics and leadership behaviors.
• Deep Expertise in Agile Frameworks Handson mastery of Scrum Kanban SAFe or other scaled Agile frameworks with demonstrated ability to tailor practices to context and need.
• Leadership & Influencing Skills Proven aptitude for influencing at all organizational levels from team members to Csuite and driving change without direct authority.
• Communication & Facilitation Exceptional verbal written and presentation skills with the ability to facilitate workshops training sessions and leadership briefings. Able to communicate thoughts concepts practices effectively at all levels adjusting approach as needed to a target audience.
• Enterprise Transformations Prior success delivering Agile transformations in large complex environments (20 teams)
• Mentoring Coaches Experience building and scaling an internal Agile coaching community or competency center
• Tooling & Automation Familiarity with agile project tooling (e.g. Jira) and continuous delivery pipelines to support datadriven coaching
• CrossFunctional Collaboration Demonstrated track record partnering with Product Management Architecture QA and DevOps to remove impediments and foster endtoend agility
• Core Competencies
• Servant Leadership Prioritizes team needs empowers selforganization and fosters psychological safety
• Systems Thinking Understands organizational interdependencies and optimizes flow across value streams
• Coaching & Mentoring Applies adultlearning principles powerful questioning and feedback to accelerate capability development
• Change Management Skilled in stakeholder engagement communication planning and overcoming resistance to change

Education

Bachelors or Masters Degree in Business Engineering Computer Science or related field

Working Environment & Reporting

• Reports to Director of Agile Operations

• Partner closely with Product/Category Management Program Management HR Learning & Development and executive sponsors

• This role is hybrid and requires commuting to work 3 days per week(TueThu)

Additional Information :

Company Description:

Fortune Brands Innovations Inc. is an industryleading innovation company focused on creating smarter safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders but for people and the planet too. When you join Fortune Brands you become part of a highperforming team who are empowered to think big learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Additional Information:

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $105000 USD $165000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range or be above or below the range based on factors including but not limited to education training experience professional achievement business need and location. In addition to base salary employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance or a rolebased sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates unique needs. This includes robust health plans a marketleading 401(k) program with a company contribution product discounts flexible time off benefits (including halfday summer Fridays per policy) inclusive fertility / adoption benefits and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand innovation and channel leader focused on exciting supercharged categories in the home products security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen House of Rohl Aqualisa SpringWell ThermaTru Larson Fiberon Master Lock SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin ancestry age disability marital status protected veteran status sexual orientation genetic history or information or any other legally protected characteristic.

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