Senior Enterprise Agility Coach

About the position

Supports ERIE's Business Agility transformation, which is focused on implementing efforts to enable the ability to respond to change, learn and pivot, and deliver at speed in a competitive market. Collaborates across disciplines in design, lean, agile, lean portfolio management, and six sigma/continuous improvement to create a maturity and evolution plan to support Erie's employees toward confidently delivering value to our Enterprise outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Supports creation of maturity plans around processes, mindsets, behaviors, and competencies.
• Collaborates with the Director, organizational leaders and product teams to support implementation, scale, and continuous improvement practices in identified enterprise agility competency areas.
• Knowledgeable on enterprise agility best practices; assesses current agility environment with teams in different stages of their agility journey.
• Supports Director and leaders in creation of a strategic, milestone-based plan for business agility transformation including tracking progress.
• Supports coaches to facilitate a collaborative partnership and community of practice with other coaches and practitioners across the organization.
• Establishes clear communication and storytelling via presentations, key performance metrics, reports, and data; effectively communicates with customers, team members, or other stakeholders.
• Institutes the concepts of design, lean, agile, lean portfolio management, and six sigma/continuous improvement practices and principles.
• Achieves results through teamwork and collaboration; drives results through partnership and learning, embodies learning environment.
• Supports and contributes to agility education and training program.
• Facilitates forums to improve methodologies and practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and four years' relevant work experience in complex initiatives and multi-discipline areas demonstrating: Coordinating across Business and IT organizations, Process and metrics development expertise; or,
• Associate degree and six years' relevant work experience in complex initiatives and multi-discipline areas demonstrating: Coordinating across Business and IT organizations, Process and metrics development expertise; or
• High School Diploma and eight years' relevant work experience in complex initiatives and multi-discipline areas demonstrating: Coordinating across Business and IT organizations, Process and metrics development expertise; required
• Demonstrates an Agile mindset and working knowledge of Agile techniques.
• Experience in applying Lean, Agile, Six Sigma or Continuous Improvement practices to medium to high complexity portfolios, required.
• Experience in Design Thinking practices and tools.
• Experience in organizational change management, required.

Benefits

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees' monthly premium costs.
• Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.
• Company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.