Global Agile Leader- Manufacturing
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years hard goods manufacturing or product development experience required.
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in a collaborative team environment.
- Strong engineering background required, with demonstrated ability to understand technical product development, engineering processes, and cross-functional engineering dependencies.
- Proven results working as a facilitator or servant leader in an agile or innovation environment.
- Must have strong Microsoft Office Suite experience (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and collaboration tool experience (Teams, Zoom, Mural, Miro, etc.)
Nice To Haves
- MBA preferred.
- Working knowledge of agile or scrum framework 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- paid time off
- 401k
- employee stock ownership plan
- annual bonus incentive program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
