Senior Director, Agile Centre of Expertise

Whatyoullbedoing

The Senior Director is a key member of the Enterprise Agile Centre of Expertise (COE) responsibleto drivethe adoption of the end-to-end (E2E) operating model design and deployment across CIBC through deployment of the Agile Coaches. The Senior Director is accountable for defining and leading the enterprise-wide vision standards and capability strategy for the Agile Coach craft and as functional reporting home for the Agile Coaches.

The role ensures consistent high-quality agile coaching across Domains; drives strategic workforce planning; develops strong Chapter leadership; and embeds agile principles leadershipbehaviours and performance enablement practices aligned to CIBCs E2E operating model.

This role balances enterprise standardization with Domain flexibility ensuring Agile Coachesoperatewith clarity of expectations consistent methodologies and measurable impact on business and client outcomes.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where youll spend 1-3 days per week on-site while other days will be remote.

Howyoullsucceed

• Business Management -Definemaintain and continuously evolve enterprise standards for the Agile Coach craft ensuring alignment to the E2E operating model and transformation roadmap.Ensure consistency of agile tooling ceremonies frameworks (e.g. Scrum Kanban) OKR guidance QBR facilitation and performance metrics.Embed the E2E operating model at scale by reinforcing role clarity leadership expectations and agile ways of working across Crews and Squads.Establish governance mechanisms tomonitorcoaching quality maturity progression and alignment to enterprise standards.Take a CIBC-wide view to identify systemic impediments and recommend operating model improvements in partnership with Domain and COE leaders.

• Team Management -Build and lead a high-performingteam ensuring strong development pathways from novice to mastery aligned to the progression model. Coach anddevelop leaders strengthening their capability in performance management talent development and culture building. Foster a culture of continuous learning growth mindset psychological safety and servant leadership across the Agile Coach community. Establish structured capability uplift programs (training communities of practice mentoring peer coaching) to elevate craft excellenceenterprise wide. Develop future enterprise leaders by strengthening leadershipbehaviours influence skills and business acumen within the coaching population.Determineand execute the strategic workforce and capability plan (capacity skill mix leveling succession recruitment). Act as functional reporting home for Agile Coach Craft.

• Operational Effectiveness-Ensure Agile Coaches effectively embed E2E Op Model principles and leadershipbehavioursthat increase flow of value strengthen team empowerment and enable sustainable performance. Drive measurable improvement in delivery maturity continuous improvement practices and culture evolution acrossCrews and Domains.Guidethe evolution of Agile Coaches toward broader performance partnership capability as enterprise maturity increases.Build strong partnerships with Crew Leads Product Owners Crew Tech Leads and Domain Leads to ensure coaching translates into tangible business and client outcomes.Promote knowledge sharing and cross-domain collaboration to accelerate enterprise-wide maturity

Whoyouare

• You embrace and advocate for change. You continuously evolve your thinking and the way you workin order todeliver your best. You apply thought leadership and complex concepts to contribute to the continuous refinement of strategicobjectives.

• Youremotivated by collective success.You know that teamwork can transforma good ideainto a great one. You know that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life.Youpossessexcellent relationship-building skills and can influence stakeholders with varied backgrounds and priorities.

• You know that details matter.You notice things that othersdont. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making. You have strong planning skills sufficient to develop project/workplansand coordinate delivery of complex initiatives across business and organizational lines. You are proven to lead in a fast-paced ambiguous environment and can effectively manage multiple activities with varying complexity under tighttime frames.

• You give meaning to data.You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way.Youdemonstratewell-developed judgment and problem-solving skills to analyze information and formulate responses to complex problems and issues for diverse audiences.

• Youpossessstrong communicationand interactive skillsto convey factual and conceptual information requiring detailed explanation and interpretation and communicate effectively at all levels in the organization.

• You act like an owner.You thrive whenyoureempowered to take initiative go above and beyond and deliver results. You have experience withlarge changeinitiatives delivering overarching strategies related to change and communication. You balance an LOB and CIBC-wide perspective with specific partner and stakeholder needs and resource constraints.

• Values matter to you.You bring your real self toworkand you live our values trustteamworkand accountability.