Junior Agile Coach

**Description**:
AXA is embarking on its most radical and ambitious change programme in the history of its Healthcare business. Driven by a changing UK health landscape, the growth in the preventative Wellbeing sector, and the need for radical simplification, we are uniting several businesses internally to produce a stronger offering than ever before. Our mission is to ‘empower people to be the best version of themselves’ with a wide range of new, market leading, app-based wellbeing and integrated medical (insurance) services.

Underneath the surface of our transformation, we want to offer an efficient yet empathetic service through intuitive customer-led navigation, ensuring a personalised offering where our customers want and need it most. We’re searching for a Junior Agile Coach to join our team and help us make this happen.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Educating employee at all levels on Agile principles, providing them with the tools to implement the process.
- Developing and delivering training sessions that leads toward the organisation-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
- Acting as a mentor, guiding teams into the Agile methodology by providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalysing organisational growth and answering questions.
- Providing hands-on support to all employees on Agile tools, methods and ceremonies, collaborating with peple across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile.
- Designing the strategy for the organisational adoption of Agile including every stage of adoption (introduction, education and fostering teams and culture that practice Agile and continuous improvement).
- Lead by example and collaborate effectively to implement Agile processes, practices and principles across all levels and department.

**Qualifications**:

- Excellent leadership, communication and influencing skills
- Advocate for the adoption of Agile and able to positively assert the need for adherence to Agile processes whilst demonstrating enthusiasm for Agile practices and their benefits
- Change and transformation experience, preferably as a senior manager or director from a consultancy or professional interim transformation background
- Delivered large scale complex business, technology delivery programming experience
- Demonstrable proficiency in relevant programme languages and methodologies
- Evidence thorough understanding Agile concepts, particularly in SAFe, Scaled Agile Frameworks, Kanban, XP
- Possessing prior experience coaching teams in Agile adoption as coach or as a Scrum Master

**What we offer**:
One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

- Competitive salary dependent on experience
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave
- AXA employee discounts
- Gym benefits

AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.

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**About AXA**:
With a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.

But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.

You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things - nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.

Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone - regardless of difference.

AXA Health is the UK healthcare specialist for the AXA Group. Whatever our customers’ health goals, we help them get there. That could be getting someone physio for an injury that’s holding them back, or finding them the right specialist to take their treatment forward. Our team are experts in their fields: from experienced cancer nurses to pioneering data analysts; from our highly respected customer service team to our wide-ranging in-house team of clinicians. We all work together to be the best we can be.