Agile Center of Excellence Coach

Introduction

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Overview

The Agile Coach plays a vital role in guiding and supporting teams in the successful adoption and implementation of agile practices. This role focuses on coaching multiple squads to enhance their agile maturity, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will work collaboratively with team members and stakeholders to deliver high-value products efficiently.

Ideally you are local to the Chicago area and are able to work out of our Rolling Meadows, IL headquarters on occassion based on business needs.

How you'll make an impact

• Coach and mentor approximately 10 squads, using economies of scale, ensuring effective implementation of agile practices.
• Collaborate with squads to foster a deep understanding of agile principles and techniques, tailoring coaching strategies to meet squad needs.
• Provide feedback on facilitation of agile ceremonies such as retrospectives, stand-ups, and planning sessions, ensuring they are productive and focused on continuous improvement.
• Identify and address impediments to squad progress, working closely with squads and Scrum Masters to develop solutions and improve workflows.
• Support squads and collectives in defining clear and achievable goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, and transparency, empowering teams to self-organize and take ownership of their work.
• Provide training sessions and workshops to enhance agile competencies across team members.
• Collaborate with the Agile Center of Excellence Lead and other Agile champions to ensure consistency in agile practices and contribute to the overall agile strategy of the organization.

About You

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Compensation and benefits

We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market / geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business / practice area, supply / demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve :

Other benefits include :

We value inclusion and diversity

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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

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Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.