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Manager of Agile Transformation

Manager of Agile Transformation

Elsevier Inc. CompanyWashington DC
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About the Role

We are seeking a strategic, experienced, and hands-on Agile Transformation Lead to spearhead the uplift of Agile maturity across our 500-person technology organization. This is a highly influential role that works horizontally across multiple delivery teams, product domains, and leadership layers, supporting our Delivery Managers, Product Managers, Engineers, and Executives to adopt better practices that increase flow, alignment, and outcomes.

About the team, as part of the Technology Optimization team, you and your team members will play a critical role in enhancing delivery effectiveness, embedding agile ways of working, and coaching teams and leaders to embrace lean, adaptive, and value-driven practices

Key Responsibilities

  • Leading Agile Transformation Strategy Design and implement a scalable transformation roadmap to increase agile maturity across teams, programs, and functions.
  • Coaching at Multiple Levels : Provide hands-on coaching to delivery teams, product managers, and tech leaders, from team-level rituals to portfolio governance.
  • Driving Culture Change : Influence mindset shifts beyond frameworks; foster agility, adaptability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  • Mentoring Delivery Managers : Support the uplift of Delivery Managers into agile leaders, enabling them to champion iterative delivery, prioritization, and servant leadership.
  • Improving Practices & Flow : Help teams adopt practical, outcome-focused methods (e.g., Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid models tailored to context).
  • Enabling Measurement & Visibility : Collaborate on defining and using agile metrics to drive insights and decisions.

Required Experience

  • Proven track record leading agile transformations in medium to large-scale technology organizations.
  • Deep knowledge of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) with a pragmatic, flexible mindset.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach teams and leaders at all levels, especially Delivery Managers and Product Managers.
  • Strong understanding of agile metrics, value stream thinking, and continuous delivery principles.
  • Excellent facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.

    • Work in a way that works for you.

    We promote a healthy work / life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

    • Working for you

    We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer :

  • Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
  • Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
  • Wellbeing programs
  • Life assurance
  • Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Long service awards
  • Save As You Earn share option scheme
  • Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
  • Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
  • RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
  • Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
  • Access to extensive learning and development resource
  • Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

    • About Business

    A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals’ advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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