Agile Coach for Employee Workplace

As an agile coach you are at the forefront of transforming our organisation to be more agile, focusing on making a difference to Swiss Re. You are part of the cultural transformation to move our enterprise towards a tech and data driven risk knowledge company.
As an experienced change leader, you'll help our employees and management to understand and support the agile way of working. You will be a key player to drive the current agile transformation initiative in Information Technology in the GTS Employee Workplace Functional Area, by coaching and supporting all involved teams and people on their agile transformation. As a catalyst, you drive continuous improvements and changes across the GTS Employee Workplace area.

On this role, you:
• Train and coach the GTS Employee Workplace Area in Agile techniques using empirical methods and practices so that the team are firmly on a path of continuous improvement and self-learning. Work with the organization to implement different approaches to delivering change using different Agile techniques and practices
• Support the organization and the different teams at various stages of their Agile journey, identify and address impediments. Develop & coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile Leaders and more
• Consulting and providing guidance on specific issues raised during the Agile journey across the organization
• Design, maintain and develop the agile governance and best practice continuously
• Coach and support the GTS Employee Workplace Leadership team into a Catalyst Leadership
• Help the organization embrace agile as a cultural shift

You will be expected to:
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the work of the Product Area(s)
• Mentor and Lead the Scrum Masters of the GTS Functional Area, both as coach and as line manager
• Act as deputy during Scrum Masters' absences, and act as "initial Scrum Master" for new arising initiatives and Squads. If time allows, also assume the Scrum Master role in at least one Squad
• Ensure planning and value delivery cadence across all Product Areas and Squads of the GTS Functional Area
• Contribute your 'Catalyst Leader' capabilities - co-creating a shared vision; developing high participation; empowering people and teams; transformative change; growing business unit capability
• Apply Agile techniques to non-technology orientated business functions
• Demonstrate knowledge of data driven techniques & strategies to teach a team how to validate business assumptions using data to drive predictable value delivery
• Support the agile teams with the right knowledge, tools and training so that they’ll be able to use agile to its full potential.
• Identify process issues and improve them

About the Team

GTS Employee Workplace provides cutting-edge products, services and support enabling Swiss Re's workforce to work from anywhere (remote and in every location), anytime in a stable and secured environment; giving them the time to focus and innovate.
We achieve this through:
• Developing and maintaining a comprehensive portfolio of standard end to end digital workplace products and services needed to support productivity, collaboration and communication (e.g. Microsoft Office 365, Windows 10)
• Local office workplace hardware lifecycle management, support and provisioning
• Supporting local or regional office and individual business unit requirements in the area of footprint changes, legal and compliance requests, BCM and ITSCM events.
• Standardizing our portfolio catalogue of services and end user technology products, helping to provide greater transparency and efficiency, enabling every employee to be educated and supported equally regardless of their respective location.
· Leveraging our global, regional and local vendors, suppliers and service provider relationships to balance value for money and high-end technical solutions.

*We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. We carefully consider your professional competencies, qualifications and experience in our compensation package and/or when offering you other positions. Our compensation philosophy is to pay fairly, also considering market situation and the value employees may bring to Swiss Re.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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