Job Purpose and Impact
The Advisor Product & Agile Coachplays a critical role in enabling Cargills product transformation. This role coaches teams and leaders to adopt modern product management and agile practices build strong discovery and delivery capabilities and continuously improve how value is created for customers and the business.
In this role you will partner with product teams product managers engineering managers and business leaders to strengthen product behaviors reinforce agile principles and support the development of highperforming customercentric teams. You will also contribute to the strategy design and implementation of the enterprise product operating model and transformation roadmap.
This is a senior handson role requiring deep expertise in product thinking team coaching and organizational change.
Key Accountabilities
- Coach and mentor product teams and leadersin product strategy discovery agile delivery experimentation and outcomefocused planning.
- Champion product thinking and agile valuesacross the enterprise to build lasting habits improve value flow and enhance customer and stakeholder outcomes.
- Design and facilitate workshops training sessions and learning experiencesthat build organizational capability and reinforce continuous learning.
- Contribute to the strategy roadmap and execution of the enterprise product transformation including operating model design coaching standards and adoption practices.
- Guide teams in creating clear product strategies measurable outcomes roadmaps and backlogsthat enable effective prioritization and impactful user experiences.
- Partner with business and technology leadersto shape intake prioritization portfolio alignment and crossteam coordination.
- Coach teams on managing risk and uncertaintythrough experimentation user feedback and feasibility/value assessment.
- Identify systemic impediments and influence leadersto remove barriers that limit team autonomy predictability or value delivery.
- Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple domains coordinating with internal and external partners to ensure solutions are aligned and scalable.
- Independently navigate complex coaching and product challenges escalating only the most critical issues.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience (typically 5 in product agile or related roles)
- Strong knowledge of product management and agile methodologies
- Experience coaching crossfunctional teams and influencing stakeholders
- The shift timings should have a minimum 3 hour overlap with Wayzata (7 am to 10 am).
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified agile coach or practitioner
- Experience contributing to or leading transformation or operating model change efforts
- Handson experience within a software product team (e.g. engineering design QA product ownership)
- Experience as a product manager product owner business analyst or similar product role
- Proven ability to identify organizational needs and develop strategies to address them
Job Purpose and Impact The Advisor Product & Agile Coachplays a critical role in enabling Cargills product transformation. This role coaches teams and leaders to adopt modern product management and agile practices build strong discovery and delivery capabilities and continuously improve how value is...
Job Purpose and Impact
The Advisor Product & Agile Coachplays a critical role in enabling Cargills product transformation. This role coaches teams and leaders to adopt modern product management and agile practices build strong discovery and delivery capabilities and continuously improve how value is created for customers and the business.
In this role you will partner with product teams product managers engineering managers and business leaders to strengthen product behaviors reinforce agile principles and support the development of highperforming customercentric teams. You will also contribute to the strategy design and implementation of the enterprise product operating model and transformation roadmap.
This is a senior handson role requiring deep expertise in product thinking team coaching and organizational change.
Key Accountabilities
- Coach and mentor product teams and leadersin product strategy discovery agile delivery experimentation and outcomefocused planning.
- Champion product thinking and agile valuesacross the enterprise to build lasting habits improve value flow and enhance customer and stakeholder outcomes.
- Design and facilitate workshops training sessions and learning experiencesthat build organizational capability and reinforce continuous learning.
- Contribute to the strategy roadmap and execution of the enterprise product transformation including operating model design coaching standards and adoption practices.
- Guide teams in creating clear product strategies measurable outcomes roadmaps and backlogsthat enable effective prioritization and impactful user experiences.
- Partner with business and technology leadersto shape intake prioritization portfolio alignment and crossteam coordination.
- Coach teams on managing risk and uncertaintythrough experimentation user feedback and feasibility/value assessment.
- Identify systemic impediments and influence leadersto remove barriers that limit team autonomy predictability or value delivery.
- Serve as a subject matter expert across multiple domains coordinating with internal and external partners to ensure solutions are aligned and scalable.
- Independently navigate complex coaching and product challenges escalating only the most critical issues.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience (typically 5 in product agile or related roles)
- Strong knowledge of product management and agile methodologies
- Experience coaching crossfunctional teams and influencing stakeholders
- The shift timings should have a minimum 3 hour overlap with Wayzata (7 am to 10 am).
Preferred Qualifications
- Certified agile coach or practitioner
- Experience contributing to or leading transformation or operating model change efforts
- Handson experience within a software product team (e.g. engineering design QA product ownership)
- Experience as a product manager product owner business analyst or similar product role
- Proven ability to identify organizational needs and develop strategies to address them
View more
View less