Agile Coach - Nordics

At SD Worx, we are looking for energetic people to join our team. With us, you get the chance to showcase your talents and grow like never before! Ready, set, apply!

SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. We have offices in Europe and Mauritius. Our goal? We bring people solutions to life and turn HR into a value source for our clients and their people.

Our people solutions span the entire employee journey, from salary payment to attracting, rewarding, and developing talent. Are you ready to join us?

About the role:

As Agile Coach for the Nordics in Mauritius you influence all levels of the organization to drive increased agility, speed, quality, autonomy, innovation and nurturing an environment where transparency is the focus. You understand that the outcome of their success is seen through the behaviours of others, and you provide the kind of coaching necessary to enable this. This role is key to enabling people to understand, learn and behave in an agile way that drives customer and business value while creating a productive agile team culture. In this role you will collaborate with the agile coaches in Finland, Norway and Sweden to bring the teams, together, to a higher level. Some travel to Finland, Norway and Sweden is to be expected.

What do we have to offer?

• Leaves: all types of leave granted from day 1 (annual leave, sick leave, study leave, maternity/paternity leave, wedding leave, compassionate leave). Eligible for seniority leave after 3 years
• Insurance benefits: Medical insurance fully paid by SD Worx for you and two dependents (children up to 18 years old). Option to upgrade available. You are also eligible to enroll your parents in your medical insurance at a subsidized rate
• Monthly fixed transport allowance
• No deduction for using the company’s transport after work
• Eligible for a mobile voucher, redeemable at one of four suppliers, renewable every 3 years
• Fixed internet allowance for home use
• Career break option
• Workation: possibility to work from any SD Worx location (4 weeks per year, EU only)
• Yearly performance review with remuneration review
• Yearly company bonus
• Car loan: subsidized interest facility
• Referral program
• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training
• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or want to expand your knowledge more horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx!

Which tasks can you expect?

• Responsible for establishing disciplined, effective agile teams
• Coaches to positively reinforce an agile mindset, practices, and skills to teams and individuals; provides clarity, new learnings, and fosters maturation
• Drives adoption of agile practices, techniques, and frameworks, reducing the gap between agile theory and practice.
• Develops, tracks and monitors agile metrics on things that impact value driven delivery and indicate potential problems, assisting teams in implementing solutions to those problems.
• Identifies organizational impediments to successful agile transformation and works with the leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them.
• Creates and delivers presentations and training sessions with an eye on process and related best practices and provides guidance on creating agile artefacts.
• Fosters an environment of mutual respect and cooperation, transparency, autonomy, agility, learning, innovation, quality and speed of execution.
• Manages conflict among people and situations while recognizing and addressing sensitivities, reducing barriers and increasing communication to assure collaboration and joint action.
• Collaborates with teams to assess the overall health of their agile practices and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partners with other Agile Coaches across SD Worx to align and drive consistency and transparency throughout the organization.
• Organizes and facilitates workshops that promote agile maturity across the organization.
• Communicates well with teams and leaders of the organization, demonstrating good listening skills, asking questions and providing feedback.
• Facilitate the learning and adoption of agile principles and practices with teams, and managers, as they gain insights and experience with agile methods and practices.
• Guide transformational change with managers, programs, and team levels, in a large matrixed organization, helping them see broader perspectives, and shift mindset to adopt new skills associated with self-governing teams.
• Be the direct HR responsible for our colleagues, helping them with the individual coaching and any HR administration.
• Working with Product Owners and Product Managers to ensure optimal staffing in our squads, balancing costs, capacity and skills to deliver the best service to our (internal) customers.

Please note that other duties may be assigned by the Tribe Lead

What do you have to offer?

• 3+ years of experience executing agile projects in large, complex environments.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring and training new agile teams.
• Deep understanding of agile values, principles, and practices.
• Hands on experience in agile methodologies.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills.
• Strong Interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
• Effective leadership and negotiation skills.
• Adaptive coaching style and the ability to work hands-on with teams in an advisor role with the ability to adapt based on the agile ‘readiness’ of the team.
• Enthusiastic and maintains a positive, high-energy attitude.
• Ability to operate autonomously while also working well within a team environment.
• Ability to assess, measure and communicate progress against defined goals.
• Drive for continuous learning.
• Ability to demonstrate emotional intelligence and integrity.
• Highly efficient in coaching the formation of a well-refined and prioritized backlog.

Preferred qualifications and experience

• 5+ years of experience in agile coaching or related roles such as Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager.
• Certifications: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Coaching Agile Teams (ICP-ACC), Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) or similar

From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together.

SD Worx embraces diversity in the workplace. Diversity brings inspiration and innovation to our company. We particularly welcome applications from qualified talent, regardless of origin, nationality, gender, skin color, ethnic and social background, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or stage of life.