Agile Lead

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We believe in better - because there's no limit to how far 'better' can take us._
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If you believe in better, we'd love to hear from you.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR.....

As the Agile Lead for AIA's Group-wide Shared Service team, you will be responsible for managing and growing a team focused on driving successful Agile delivery of business-critical initiatives across different AIA country markets, through impact-focused Agile delivery support and coaching.
AIA is establishing a new Shared Service team in the Philippines, to help supplement critical skills for our local market delivery teams.
The Agile delivery experts within this team will support multiple initiatives across different country teams, as embedded team members to help coach and drive teams towards successful Agile delivery.
This role will lead that team of Agile Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters, from hiring through to managing pipeline, liaising with local sponsors, and supporting your team to ensure they deliver a great service to AIA markets.
The role will provide exposure to a wide selection of AIA initiatives and markets, as well as providing the opportunity to be a 'founding lead' of an exciting new high-skilled AIA Group business unit, based in the Philippines.
Roles and responsibilities:
Team Development and Management
- Reporting to Group Director, Agile Transformation, you will help to recruit and grow a team of experienced Agile delivery experts, who will be deployed to different business-critical initiatives across AIA markets
- Responsible for growing and managing the pipeline for Agile shared service support
- Agreeing scope for support upfront with market sponsors and checking in regularly with sponsors to ensure they are getting a great level of support from the team
- Day-to-day management and development of team (goal setting, building up the right level of experience within the team through mentoring/upskilling as well as hiring)
- Working with your team members to overcome the more complex Agile delivery/adoption challenges they might experience once deployed to different initiatives
- Building a great team culture that cascades through to our market teams, as they continue on their Agile transformation journeys

You will lead a team focused on:

- Driving successful Agile delivery for business-critical AIA initiatives across our country market teams, through Agile delivery support, facilitation and coaching.
- Providing expertise and hands-on support to different AIA initiatives on how to deliver complex technology-focused projects with Agility (i.e.
with complex integrations, partner/vendor involvement, etc.)
- Working with Agile teams as an embedded team member (often remote), as part of a new Group-wide shared service team focused on driving impactful Agile delivery.
- Working with the Product Owners to ensure the right priorities and outcomes are delivered.
- Leveraging Agile principles and values to drive continuous improvements in the impactful delivery of Tech and non-Tech teams.
- Supporting the team to focus on the right outcomes and to navigate blockers and challenges to Agile delivery, both at the team and country levels.
- Working with local sponsors, leads and delivery teams to ensure targets and progress are regularly and transparently communicated and agreed.
- Upholding the Shared Service team's reputation as a provider of excellence through consistent and reliable impact delivery.
- Supporting to establish and implement the Agile operating model principles, terminology, practices and governance to be used across AIA.
- Playing an active role in establishing the new Group Shared Service team in the Philippines, through supporting the setup and launch of this new business unit.
- Working alongside the Group Agile CoE and local country Agile CoE's to drive consistent Agile adoption.
- Embed the Agile ways of working with the team members, sponsors and stakeholders through on the job coaching and training.
- Driving a great 'one-team' culture within the new Group-wide Shared Service team (in Philippines).
- Lead and coach Agile teams on how to best execute Agile frameworks and methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.
), practices and tools to improve team efficiency and effectiveness in this new way of working.
- Playing an active role in driving the Agile community to share best practices and new ways of working and to establish consistent practices and principles for Agile at scale

Communication requirements:

- Excellent English communication skills
- Be able to communicate effectively and persuasively with senior stakeholders and team me