Agile Coach

Reference No. R2825878

Position Title: Agile Coach

Department: Agile Coaching

Location: Toronto, Canada

About the Job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. 

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. We are seeking an experienced Senior Agile Coach in Toronto to join our Global Agile CoE. As an Agile Coach, you will play a crucial role in driving agile transformation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within our organization.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities

• Coach and mentor teams in adopting agile principles and behaviors

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, continuous delivery and outcome-driven decision-making

• Guide sustainable cadence in product development

• Bring agility into product discovery and hypothesis validation thinking

• Learning from data and take decision from it

• Support collaboration between cross-functional product teams (PO, Full-Stack Developers, Data Professionals, UX/UI) & business stakeholders Identify and Remove impediments for continuous flow and improvement.

• Drive organizational change and support teams to embrace a product mindset through their agile transformation journey.

• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members

• Promote agile values, principles, and mindset across the organization

• Collaborate with stakeholders to align agile practices in service of achieving business objectives.

• Develop best practices and templates for contracting with vendors providing Agile delivery services.

• Contribute to setup and ongoing improvement of Agile CoE’s training packages, service offerings and practices.

• Provide advice process and structural changes at the organization level

• Suggest organizations policies to support Agile ways of working

• Document emergent operating model principles that aid in successful product discovery and hypothesis validation.

About You

Required Qualifications

Education requirements: Bachelors degree required.

Experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience

• Proven success in coaching Product Owners and teams to scale products across multiple countries and stakeholders

• Track-record of success as an Agile Coach in complex environments

• Experience in working in domain knowledge (e.g. knowledge of industry regulations, domain-specific metrics, and business processes)

• Proven participation in successful, global agile transformation.

Technical Skills

• Solid knowledge of Lean & Agile practices, UX/UI and Application Design & Integration

• Understand the technology stack and be able to guide the team on best practices for tool selection, integration, and usage

• Demonstrated understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks relevant to highly regulated industries.

• Strong facilitation, teaching, mentoring and coaching skills.

• Experience with organization design and operating model considerations.

• Change management expertise

Soft skills:

• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, backlog management, and release planning for achieving significant outcomes 

• Excellent communication, mentoring, and leadership skills for effective coaching and team influence

• Be comfortable promoting a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement within the team

About Agile CoE

The purpose of Agile CoE is to cultivate high-performing teams that efficiently create products accelerating Sanofi’s journey from discovery to therapy. Agile CoE is a global collective of agilists committed to accelerating speed of product delivery by instilling a product mindset in a learning organization that has a fit-for-purpose operating model.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs

This position is for a new vacant role that we are actively hiring for.​

Sanofi is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain highly talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified applicants.  Accommodations for persons with disabilities required during the recruitment process are available upon request.

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