Agile coach

Aggregate function:  Technology
Business Area:  VT Digital Engineering
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  22 Oct 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

What you’ll do

The Agile coach will guide and coach employees on how to find the best solutions for their specific departmental challenges. Will review the existing structure of our organization and implement improvements to help streamline processes and create efficiencies. He will play a key role in long-term strategy across the business, helping our teams deliver better products faster and more efficiently.

• Work with project teams to analyze current workflow and processes and design a strategy for adopting agile best practices

• Guide teams to stay on track with agile techniques, refining their approach to ensure strategy is met

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by setting goals, milestones and assigning responsibilities

• Drive cultural change by promoting an agile mindset and ensuring the organization adheres to industry best practices

• Facilitate learning and development among employees through individual and team coaching

• Lead agile workshops for developers and functional teams as well as stakeholders

• Train senior managers in agile practices to ensure adoption of best practices

• Communicate agile principles, scrum practices and the overall agile operating model throughout the organization

• Support the use of metrics and other measures by teams

• Conduct daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are met

• Maintain objectivity about problems and how to solve them by applying agile principles

• Hold stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams to review project status

• Support teams in determining resource allocations to maintain agile practices and ensure smooth project delivery

• Define technical requirements to develop business capabilities, encouraging reuse through community of expertise forums

Who you are

• Ability to influence a cross-functional team in a dynamic, multinational environment

• Experience in leading Agile Scaling within the organization

• Innovator with strategic perspective and development of creative ways of working

• Ensuring a consistent framework to plan, communicate and monitor how business objectives and results will be achieved over time

• 5+ or more years of hands-on experience in Agile, preferably in multinational initiatives and in the IT sector

• Excellent communication skills and ability to perform value analysis

• Problem solving skills and disciplines to ensure/govern creative thinking

• Highly organized with excellent writing and communication skills

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What's in it for you

  • Hybrid work setup
  • Medical subscription
  • Meal tickets
  • Insurance for hospitalization and surgical interventions
  • Life insurance
  • Insurance modules and additional medical packages for you and your family
  • Special discounts for Vodafone employees
  • Demo phone subscription
  • Special offers Friends & Family
  • Telephone voucher
  • Vodafone encourages the personal success and desire to evolve of each of its employees, continuously offering them opportunities for professional development. You will benefit from specializations in your field of activity, through programs based on modern training methods and systems.

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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.