Agile Coach

Company Overview:

At RSA, we believe insurance is about people, not things. We provide our inspiring colleagues the support and opportunity to grow together, shape the future, and win as a team. We are going through a transformation journey, providing our people with opportunity to be integral to improving our service and delivering better products to brokers and customers. We are a proud member of the Intact family, we feel part of something bigger, with a presence in North America, the UK and Europe.

We have a bold ambition to become the best Commercial Lines business in the UK, demonstrated by our recent acquisition of NIG and Farmweb, allowing us to scale by leveraging our combined financial strength and importantly ensure our people feel the benefits of our joint capabilities.

We are currently recruiting for an Agile Coach to join our established and experienced Chief Information Office team here at RSA on a hybrid basis.

Your Role:

As our Agile Coach you will be responsible for driving transformational culture change across our CIO community through coaching, mentoring, and facilitating cross functional teams of specialists. Your influence will also extend to Lead Platform Product Owners and Heads of Portfolio delivery.

You will be expected to contribute to the creation and effective facilitation of Agile at scale (e.g. scrum of scrums)for team impediment escalations and product alignment at scale (e.g. meta scrum) to ensue alignment to quarterly business objectives and work across portfolio activity.

You will be responsible for fostering an out-performance culture with a keen attention to outcomes, focus on end to end value steam flow of work and supporting data driven decision making that incorporates a probabilistic mindset are equally crucial for success.

About You:

Key to your success will be your ability to engage, collaborate and coach senior stakeholders along our agile journey, while enabling cross functional teams close alignment with business goals/roadmaps is critical.

You will need demonstrated experience in specific practices such as : theory of constraints, systems thinking, flow, applying metrics for predictability, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), Scaling with Portfolio Kanban(SPK).

You will also have demonstrated Power-user/Administrator experience in Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence. As well as advanced roadmaps and actionable agile is highly desired. It would also be beneficial to have qualifications such as scaled Portfolio Kanban (ASPK), Applied metrics for predictability (AMP) and/or PMI-ACP, ICP-ACC, ENT and/or CAT.

What we offer you:

At RSA we put our people first. We have adopted hybrid working as standard, to give you a better work/life balance and an excellent flexible working mindset. That is on top of a comprehensive range of benefits, including pension contributions of up to 11% looking after you now, and in the future.

We will give you countless opportunities to continuously develop, alongside a diverse and passionate community of experts, the best the industry has to offer. You will be empowered to be your best self, do your best work, and make a meaningful impact. Our employee promise allows you to shape the future, win as a team, and grow with us.

About Us:

We celebrate individuality and it's important to us that we have a culture where our people feel respected and valued for who they are. We pride ourselves on being accessible and encourage inclusive environments where our people can always give and show the very best of themselves.

We understand that home life is a priority and are happy to consider reduced hours or job shares.

If you think you would be a great fit for us, but don't meet all the requirements of the role, please contact us as we’d love to discuss how RSA could be the next step in your career journey.

Please let us know if there are any changes, we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact our recruitment team so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.