JOB DETAILS

Global Agile Leader

Baltimore Air Coil • Full-time • Jessup, Maryland, United States • 1m ago

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 10 years hard goods manufacturing or product development experience required. MBA preferred.
Minimum 2 years of experience working in an Agile environment, BAC experience a plus.
Proven results working as a facilitator or coach in an agile or innovation environment.
Working knowledge of agile framework or methodology.
Scrum Master certification 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 able to relate to all levels of the organization. From individual contributors to senior leadership team members. Must be able to communicate across multiple global cultures and across multiple time zones effectively.

Leaderships:

- Ability to effectively facilitate team meetings
- Ability to work autonomously with a wide variety of people at different levels of the company, and from different regions worldwide
- Ability to influence others without having direct authority
- Ability to make work clear and visible in ambiguous situations
- Ability to coach teams through dependency planning and critical path identification
- Ability to coach individual team members on agile principles and how to use them successfully

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 at the team level and ensure the process is followed
Coach the team on the process, process improvement and ‘Doing Good Scrum’
Track team metrics to gather insight into the overall health of the team
Target process improvements to drive increases in team velocity and happiness
Enable teams to accelerate through impediment identification, removal and escalation
Utilize relationships throughout the organization to remove impediments and resource conflicts
Assists teams with long term planning and macro estimation to enable resource planning and impediment identification
Facilitate backlog refinement as well as value vs effort activities to help teams curate a prioritized and ready backlog
Facilitate risk discussions to help teams mitigate risks and fail fast
Effectively communicate agile principles and scrum practices across the organization
Utilize BAC’s innovation process to lead teams though new challenges
Support process and tool developments to further the Agile COE

WORKING CONDITIONS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk up to 30% of the time. This position requires occasional lifting of up to 30 lbs., and travel of 10% of the time.

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