Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The role of agile expert supports teams or individuals adopt and improve agile methods and practices. They ensure that the agreed agile process is followed. They also help to remove impediments and foster an environment for high performing team dynamics. They provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio, program and project support

• Assists with the compilation of portfolio, program and project management reports.
• Maintains program and project files from supplied actual and forecast data.

Business analysis

• Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities, contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organization.
• Assists in defining acceptance tests for these recommendations.

Measurement

• Applies standard techniques to support the specification of measures and the collection and maintenance of data for measurement.
• Generates, produces and distributes reports.
• Uses measurement tools for routine analysis of data.
• Identifies and implements improvements to data collection methods.

Learning delivery

• Delivers learning activities to a variety of audiences.
• Teaches, instructs, trains students/learners in order to develop knowledge, techniques and skills using appropriate methods, tools, online environments, equipment and materials.
• Oversees students/learners in performing practical activities and work, advising and assisting where necessary.
• Provides detailed instruction where necessary and responds to questions, seeking advice in exceptional conditions beyond own experience.
• Assists with the development of examples and case study material for use within pre-defined learning material.

If required: People Management / Resource Management:

• May be involved and gives some input on hiring Transition decisions
• Ensures appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating a motivational and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained and provided with career opportunities through development
• Allocates the different work to the respective employees considering experience, complexity, workload and organizational efficiency
• Continuously monitors and evaluates team workload and organizational efficiency with the support of IT systems, data and analysis and team feedback and makes appropriate changes to meet business needs.

• Provides team members/direct reports with clear direction and targets that are aligned with business needs and GIT objectives
  

Key Relationships:

• Global IT
• Respective business function (GOPS, Finance, HR, Brand Marketing, Wholesale/Retail)
• HR (Senior) Management
• Controlling

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Very good understanding of different Agile frameworks like SCRUM or Kanban
• Practical Experience with facilitating team ceremonies
• Coaching skills
• Good knowledge of Atlassian tools (Jira & Confluence)
• Proficient spoken and written command of English
• At least 5-year experience in IT with 2 years in the relevant area
• Four-year college or university degree with focus on Business Administration or IT or related areas, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Understanding of different culture
• Participated in projects with people from other functions/markets

Nice to have:

• Good Knowledge of Kanban Metrics (Flow)
• Preferably experience with scaling frameworks (ex: SAFe) and working with teams acrossmultiple domains