Agile Coach

Summary: The Agile Coach role involves partnering with a large Pharmaceutical manufacturing client in Macclesfield to drive business agility through coaching and transformation strategies. This position is a hybrid contract for an initial duration of six months, focusing on enhancing Agile maturity across the organization. The role requires collaboration with various business units and leadership to integrate Agile practices into core functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach executive leaders, business units, and change agents in adopting business agility mindsets and practices.
• Lead the design and execution of enterprise transformation strategies aligned to organizational goals.
• Support value stream and portfolio level operating models that enable responsive decision making and value delivery.
• Establish internal coaching capability by mentoring Agile Coaches, Lean Coaches, and other transformation roles.
• Embed continuous improvement, feedback loops, and data-driven insights into CIPS operating rhythm.
• Facilitate leadership workshops, OKR alignment, demand assessment, and operating model design.
• Partner with HR, Finance, and other business areas to integrate agility into core business functions.
• Assess Agile maturity within CIPS as a whole.
• Work with existing teams and team coaches to provide guidance and path forward.
• Provide coaching to further improve Agile maturity of teams via teaching, mentoring, and coaching approaches.
• Work with all client partners on the project and outside of the project when needed effectively towards interest.
• Provide Regular Reporting according to standard Ways of Working.
• Collaborate with and contribute back to the LACE to ensure lessons learned and standards are shared.

Key Skills:

• Experience in coaching Agile methodologies in a pharmaceutical or biotechnology context.
• Strong understanding of enterprise transformation strategies.
• Ability to mentor and develop internal coaching capabilities.
• Experience in facilitating workshops and aligning organizational goals.
• Proficient in assessing Agile maturity and implementing improvement strategies.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Macclesfield

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other