Agile Coach

Were Kingfisher A team made up of over 74000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q Screwfix Brico Depot Castorama and Koctas - to life. Thats right were big 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. And thats where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks 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 gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working both of hours and location. Therefore we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices located in London Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

As an Agile Coach at Kingfisher you will support squads to build strong Agile ways of working that improve delivery and outcomes. By coaching teams to use Agile tools data and ceremonies effectively you will help create better experiences that contribute to Better Homes Better Lives For everyone.

This role is responsible for providing squads with the agile tools and techniques required to increase Agile maturity and enhance delivery outcomes. This is achieved by coaching squads to run Agile ceremonies effectively sharing maturity and performance data.

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 sprint planning and

retrospectives.

Coach the squad to work within Kingfisher Agile processes principles tooling and 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 to identify skill 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 and identify actions 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 best practice and expertise to enable Agile capability and squads

to identify ways 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 improvement and innovation events at the Domain / Sub-Domain level

using data and insight to identify improvement areas and work with Squads to

implement improvement ideas.

At least 8 years 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

Ability to speak both English and French

Be Customer Focussed constantly improving our customers experience

• I listen to my customers
• I use available data to help make decisions

Be Human acting with humanity and care

• I do the right thing
• I am respectful

Be Curious thrive on learning thinking beyond the obvious

• I build and share new ideas
• I try new things and share my learnings

Be Agile working with trust pace and agility

• I have courage to be creative
• Done is better than perfect I aim for 80/20

Be Inclusive acting inclusively in diverse teams to work together

• I embrace allyship
• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn

Be Accountable championing the plan to deliver results and growth

• I own my actions
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role

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 encourage new ideas actively support experimentation and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested Great apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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