Agile Coach

Job Description

What You Need To Know

Open your future to incredible career potential. Work for an industry-leader who invests in their people. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success.

We were named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and are included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan.

We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

At Southern Glazer’s, you’ll enjoy an environment where continuous learning and growth are supported and experience a culture where you are respected, and your voice is heard.

If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Agile Coach is an individual contributor position responsible for educating, coaching, and supporting teams in adopting agile principles and practices in support of the organization's digital acceleration efforts.

Agile Coaches play a critical role in fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and adaptability to enhance SGWS’s ability to deliver value to our customers and impact to our business.

As an Agile Coach you will be responsible for ensuring Agile Frameworks are understood and enacted. Agile Coaches do this by ensuring that the team and organization adhere to the values of the Agile Manifesto and the twelve principles therein.

You are a servant leader. You help employees and stakeholders understand and enact empirical product development. You are a facilitator, trainer, coach, and mentor for the team, organization, and enterprise.

You are not defined or bound by your title, but instead focus on delivering value. You may at times fill various roles based on organizational needs and your own abilities, including : Scrum Master, Team Coach, and Enterprise Coach.

You seek to continuously improve your own skills, the effectiveness of your team, and the organization’s understanding of Agile.

You measure progress using learning milestones. You support the five elements of a learning organization : personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking.

You adhere to the five Scrum values : focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect.

As an Agile Coach you will implement a descaled product structure, supported by Agile ways of working, across a product portfolio or customer journey.

You work across departmental boundaries with people at all levels of the organization to implement the cultural and organizational changes necessary to accelerate our digital transformation.

You may lead a community of practice and will serve as a mentor and potential manager to the Scrum Masters who are aligned to your product portfolio.

You ensure leaders, team members, and neighbors adhere to the values of the Agile Manifesto and the twelve principles therein.

You are a servant leader. You help employees and stakeholders understand and enact empirical product development. You are a facilitator, trainer, coach, and mentor for the team, organization, and enterprise.

You are not defined or bound by your title, but instead focus on delivering value. You seek to continuously improve your own skills, the effectiveness of the teams you support, and the organization’s understanding of Agile.

You measure progress using learning milestones. You support the five elements of a learning organization : personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking.

You adhere to the five Scrum values : focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect.

Primary Responsibilities

• Educate and coach teams and partners to adopt agile ways of working.
• Develop agile coaching strategy, outline approach for scaling adoption.
• Provide guidance and training to product teams on Agile Frameworks.
• Design new methods for enhancing organizational agility.
• Assess agile maturity levels of teams and individuals to identify and address gaps.
• Monitor and address potential blockers to agile adoption and effectiveness.
• Align initiatives with organizational goals, fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Monitor and address potential blockers to Agile adoption and effectiveness.
• Align Agile initiatives with organizational goals, fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Communicate and share knowledge of Agile training and principles across the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field preferred
• 10+ years of related work experience
• Proven track record of coaching Agile teams and successfully applying Agile practices in complex organizational settings.
• Agile and Beverage Alcohol experience certifications preferred.
• As an Agile Coach, you already have many of these skills and will continue to develop and expand your repertoire : Agile Frameworks, Organizational Change Leadership, Product Development, Product Marketing, Finance, Architecture, and DevOps

Preferred Qualifications

• Agile Certification(s)
• Beverage Alcohol Industry Experience
• Graduate Degree

Agile Delivery Values

• Openness Team and stakeholders agree to be open about all work and challenges
• Commitment Personally commit to achieving the goals of the team
• Respect Respect your team members to be capable and independent
• Courage You have courage to do the right thing and work on tough problems
• Focus Everyone focus on the work in the sprint and the goal of the scrum team. Rise and fall as a team

Physical Demands

Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing / keyboarding using a computer (e.

g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device

• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting / lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action / EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and / or criminal conviction records.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.