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 an experienced Agile Coach to join our team and help us make this happen. Reporting to the Transformation Director, you will lead teams to implement our new methodology, driving organisational change whilst providing coaching in Agile methodologies. This is a key role in the overall delivery and value add, as you will be pivotal in increasing collaboration, innovation, adaptability and flexibility in the face of unpredictable circumstances.

What you'll be doing:

- Responsible for educating and coaching multi-disciplinary teams on Agile values and principles, providing them with framework and tools for implementing the process.
- Responsible for developing and delivering training sessions that leads toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
- Acting as a mentor and coach, responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology, providing Product Owners, Scrum Masters and the team members with feedback and means of improvement.
- Responsible for providing hands-on support to all employees on Agile tools, methods and ceremonies, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall company growth and improvement.
- Embodying the Agile principles and lead by example, responsible for leading Agile Community of Practice initiatives, facilitation of PI planning events and overall championing the Agile culture with the organization

**Qualifications**:

- Proven track record of embedding Agile culture, mindset and ways of working in teams
- 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
- At least 2 years of Scrum Master and/or Agile Coach experience. Overall, at least 5 years of Change and transformation experience, preferably as a senior manager with digital and/or Agile 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 Scaled Agile Framework. Agile certification preferable.
- Experience in facilitation of workshop, user story writing, tooling (e.g. JIRA/ADO).

**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 annual salary of up to £65,000
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)
- Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
- 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- 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.

**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.

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