Global Agile Leader

POSITION PURPOSE

The Global Agile Leader is a change agent responsible for deploying agile principles and the scrum process within product development and innovation teams throughout the organization.

This role will provide scrum process ownership and servant leadership within teams as the scrum master/mentor.

The scrum mentor’s responsibilities include ensuring that development teams follow scrum framework values and agile practices, mentoring and motivating the teams to improve processes, facilitating meetings and decision-making processes, and eliminating team impediments.

This role will also serve as a resource for agile best practices and facilitation including training, process and tool development and innovation activities.

Ultimately, this position will play a key role in the long-term strategy to become a more agile organization, help our teams accelerate and meet our customers’ needs.

This role will report to the Global Manager – Agile.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS


* Bachelor’s degree and 5 years hard goods manufacturing or product development experience required.

MBA preferred.


* Minimum 5 years of experience working in a collaborative team environment.



* Proven results working as a facilitator or servant leader in an agile or innovation environment.


* Working knowledge of agile or scrum framework is a plus, the expectation being it will be required after accepting role.


* Experience leading or participating in global product development and launches a plus.


* Experience across multiple functions (marketing, operations, manufacturing, etc.) in addition to engineering is a plus.


* Must have strong Microsoft Office Suite experience (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and collaboration tool experience (Teams, Zoom, Mural, Miro, etc.)

Core Competencies:

Communications: Proven record of effective written and oral communication skills.

Must be effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among divers styles and position levels.

Must be able to attentively listens to others and adjust to fit the audience and the message

Leaderships:


* Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings


* Ability to maneuver comfortably through process and worldwide people-related organizational dynamics


* Ability to drive engagement and ensure accountability to meet commitments without having direct authority


* Ability to manage ambiguity when things are not certain or clear


* Ability to coach individual team members on agile principles and scrum framework and how to use them successfully


* Ability to manage conflict effectively with minimum of noise


* Ability to optimize work processes to get things done effectively and efficiently


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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

It is expected that the Agile Leader will be responsible for the following:


* Facilitate cross functional teams utilizing agile processes including Scrum


* Own the scrum process ...