Business Agility Lead

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JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead (Agile Coach)

SALARY: £73,521 to £81,690

LOCATION(S): Jersey, St Helier, Jersey and Isle of Man, Douglas Villiers House

HOURS: Full Time/Part Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Are you an experienced Agile Coach who is passionate about mentoring teams to optimise their working practices?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Agility Lead (BAL), that will support teams across the bank in agile coaching driving effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace!

In this role you'll:

• Use your experience in product delivery and customer-centric value hypothesis to empower and drive mindset and culture change across the labs.
• Understand data and insights and use it to problem-solve and support Lab performance and productivity to drive lab cadence, and data quality.
• Be jointly responsible for the performance of the lab including data quality, optimising flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices.
• Support colleagues within your lab and platform to implement and refine agile practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge.
• Put your expertise in the different agile approaches into practice and use your own judgement to decide when and where to apply them, whilst ensuring they are embedded throughout.
• Use your knowledge in Agile Methodology and Tooling, to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and advice and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required. Support and coach teams with various techniques, including facilitation, training and education where required and continuously evolving market insights.

About Us or Why Lloyds Banking Group?

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What we need from you:

We're actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from candidates with different background and ways of thinking.

To be successful in this role, however, you would as a minimum need to demonstrate experience in all of the below in your application:

Agile Coaching

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching (with relevant certifications desired e.g. Kanban, PSM3, coaching or other equivalent qualifications etc.).
• Experience in coaching and influencing senior leadership in adopting agile ways of working and behaviours and in product-based delivery.

Agile Toolset

• Working experience of using Agile toolset including JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence.

Data-lead decision making

• Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and data-led decision making.
• Evidenced experience in using data and insights to problem solve driving productivity and cadence.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.