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Job Advertisement: Business Agility Lead Location: Bristol (2 days per week) Contract Length: 9 Months Working Pattern: Full Time hours, via an Umbrella Company Are you an agile enthusiast ready to make a difference in the financial and insurance sector? Our client is on the hunt for a dynamic Business Agility Lead (BAL) to join their vibrant team in Bristol. If you thrive on driving effectiveness, efficiency, and predictability while delivering value to customers and colleagues, we want to hear from you! About the Role As the Business Agility Lead, you will work closely with Labs, embedding agile practices that enhance performance and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Your mission? To transition teams to a data-led approach, speeding up market delivery while ensuring the quality of work and data. Together with Lab Leaders, you'll coach teams to excel in their agile journeys. Key Responsibilities Drive Performance:Optimise flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices to enhance Lab performance. Coaching & Mentoring: Support colleagues in implementing and refining agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) tailored to their needs. Data-Driven Insights: Use data and metrics to problem-solve and boost Lab productivity. Agile Team Development: Stand up new agile teams, providing guidance on tools and methods. What You'll Need Proven experience in Agile Coaching or Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications). Familiarity with Agile Delivery Metrics and evidence-based decision-making. Experience in coaching Lab leadership on Agile Ways of Working. Proficient in using JIRA, JIRA Align, and Confluence. Strong ability to drive data quality and insights for optimal Lab performance. Previous experience of dealing with Senior Level Stakeholders. Bonus Skills: Agile certifications (e.g., PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar) are highly valued! Why Join Us? At our client's organisation, inclusivity is at the heart of what we do. We're committed to building a diverse workforce that mirrors modern society. Here's what you can expect: A Welcoming Environment: We celebrate diversity and ensure everyone feels they belong. Supportive Initiatives: From diversity goals to health packages, we prioritise the well-being of our employees. Encouraging Applications: We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups and are disability confident. If you need reasonable adjustments in our recruitment process, just let us know! Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now to join a team of committed Business Agility Leads and become a part of an organisation that values your skills and passion for agility! We can't wait to see how you can contribute to our client's success! We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention. Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.

Technology Consulting - SAP Data Manager/Senior Consultant At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. The opportunity Having undergone a paradigm shift in recent years, SAP offers an innovative high-performance real-time platform and solutions which are enabling organisations to become intelligent enterprises. Our SAP team is focused on working with our clients to leverage these SAP innovations and create business value. In particular we are looking for an individual with a proven delivery background who can assist our clients with delivering next generation SAP technology. Your key responsibilities As a Manager / Senior Consultant within our SAP data practice, a large proportion of your time will be meeting with senior stakeholders of leading UK businesses. You'll also be responsible for managing teams and delivering high quality work. To be successful you will have: A passion for helping companies drive value from their data Great communication skills Strong domain knowledge of SAP data Experience of delivering end-to-end projects across one or many of the following disciplines: Data integration and data management Master Data Governance Data migration to ERP or S/4 HANA Technical expertise in one or many of the following core competencies Data engineering with SAP Data Services, Data Intelligence and open source frameworks (Python, R) Data quality and cleansing projects using SAP Information Steward SAP Master Data Governance and ABAP Experience of Microsoft data platforms is advantageous but not essential Managing project delivery teams Demonstrable experience of non-technical project deliverables (e.g. strategic advisory; requirements capture; project estimation; pre-sales presentations) You will be responsible for: Managing project delivery across data migration, MDG and other data projects Leading technical teams Inputting into the SAP data market proposition Supporting business development activities and client proposals Modelling leadership behaviour and driving your own career path Train, coach, and supervise team members. To qualify for the role you must have The ability to structure teams, lead work streams and architect innovative solutions Excellent communication skills and ability to build 'Trusted Adviser' relationships Deep expertise in data management and SAP's EIM solution portfolio Strong experience with Waterfall, Hybrid-Agile and Agile methods (eg. Scrum, Lean, Kanban) Willingness to travel as required in relation to working at Client Sites on specific engagements Ideally, you'll also have 6+ years experience in SAP delivery Relevant SAP certifications An understanding of the SAP roadmap and industry trends An appreciation and some experience with non-SAP solutions SAP functional experience What working at EY AgilityWorks offers We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer: Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. About EY AgilityWorks EY AgilityWorks is a result of EY acquiring AgilityWorks in December 2019. We are a disruptive SAP solutions and services company operating across the intersection of the latest disruptive mobile, big data, cloud solutions and application managed services. It helps progressive organisations to transform and prosper in the digital environment, where new ways of working are possible across the entire value chain. EY AgilityWorks has developed significant experience and intellectual capital working with some of the world's leading brands. These organisations are characterised by having SAP at the heart of their enterprise system landscape with a drive to realise greater agility and quicker time-to-value. If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. Join us in building a better working world. Apply now.

About The Role #BetheChange Coventry Building Society has grown into the second largest building society in the UK. Despite being a national Society, it keeps its local values and loyalty, and its caring family ethos. The best way to judge a company is based on what the people who work there say. Our recent employee survey rated us Number 2 in the Sunday Times 25 Best Big Companies to Work For list. We offer not only fulfilling jobs and exciting career opportunities but a place where everyone can belong and feel proud to work. What makes us such a rich and progressive place to work is the huge variety of people that make up our workforce. One of the things we are proud of at Coventry Building Society is our dedication to wellbeing. We understand that you have commitments - be it picking up children, being a carer for someone or a spin class you just can't miss. We recognise the importance of helping you balance your working life with other priorities - whether that's our working from home policy or our flexibility with the working hours in the day. If you want to consider this vacancy but are concerned about the working hours, apply and let's talk about how we may be able to accommodate your needs, whilst making sure we meet our members' needs. We have an opportunity for an Agile Coach to join us on a permanent basis as we transition to agile ways of working during a period of Digital Transformation. You'll develop the team's understanding of agile, support their professional development and make sure our products are delivered in-line with business objectives. You'll focus on creating an agile environment, putting in place the systems, processes, coaching and ways of working to sustain a high performing team to deliver business value more efficiently. We need you to be passionate driving morale and greater agility, but also understand it can't just be an 'off the shelf' solution'; it's about the right fit for an organisation at the right time. Therefore we need you to be credible as a delivery lead and coach, and qualified (where appropriate) in the use of agile methodology, frameworks and practices. We want you to be the agile leader and champion for the Society and advise the wider delivery community on how best to apply these methods to project delivery and encourage self-organisation and collaboration in cross functional teams. About You Successful Candidates will need to be and to demonstrate: • Passionate about enabling the leadership of delivery and achievement of outcomes in cross functional teams, empowering collaboration and self-organisation to succeed. • A professional coach who both educates and coaches, and possesses great interpersonal skills, teaching abilities, and a capacity to inspire and motivate. • An individual who drives Agile culture of Continuous Improvement. • Be a Role Model of Agile Principles and values as well as being an exemplar in Scrum Values of Transparency (Openness), Focus, Courage, Respect, Commitment. • Drives the team(s) towards the goal of becoming self-managing, optimally performing teams. • Professional Scrum Master Qualification: (Certified Scrum Master (CSM, PSM or SSM) or Kanban Management Professional (KMP)). Advance qualification or willingness to work towards is desirable. A certification in SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or equivalent is highly desirable. • Professional coaching experience is essential. Certification is desirable • Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience of a broad range of agile topics, tools and techniques • Significant Agile/Lean knowledge with Demonstrable coaching experience • An expert of Knowledge in Scrum and/or other Agile Method, with expertise in either transformational, business or technical mastery (including continuous integration and continuous delivery) • Experience of working and leading across multiple agile teams, with knowledge and experience of working at scale (financial organisations is desirable) • Expert facilitation, mentoring and presentation skills • Outstanding communication skills at all levels • An understanding of DevOps is highly desirable About The Company Finally With wellbeing in mind and to comply with social distancing guidance, we are currently using digital platforms such as Zoom to conduct virtual interviews.

Job Profile Summary How would you like to join an Agility Coaching team with a real focus on how we build our sustained capability and a great Community of Practice? We have clear focus on value delivery and our coaches all work on areas that are directly linked to our strategic objectives. At bp, we're striving to meet the growing global demand for safe, sustainable and affordable energy. We are re-inventing bp to be leaner, faster moving, lower carbon, more competitive and able to seize those opportunities. "bp will be agile", redefining how it feels to work in bp. As part of this we need different skills to lead transformation. Over the past three years, we've made outstanding strides in embracing lean and agile attitudes and practices. We're committed to being agile, at scale, and need your skills to help implement change to how we work. Individually, within our teams and as a sustainable energy company. Location: Sunbury/ Central London locations - however we are embracing a new hybrid working solution, meaning this position would be split between remote and office working. Job Advert About the role This is your opportunity to bring your experience with agility, to help reinvent our company. It's also your chance to have a significant impact, beyond your team and across our company; you'll be implementing agility practices and mentalities throughout the business and across our new entities. Agility has the power to transform working at bp. It's a mentality; a set of behaviours. We want you to mentor our leaders and teams as they transition over to an agile operating model and a new way of working. Change can be hard. So, your passion, understanding of agility methods and frameworks, plus a personal approach, will be key to overcoming systemic issues, improving and innovating business performance and embedding a continuous improvement environment. Thanks to your work, we'll see greater efficiency in development and execution of business efforts, as well as a team who is able to harness their potential and boost their performance - supported by your specialist coaching. About you We're looking for a professional who's a coach in every sense of the word: a trainer, facilitator, influencer, motivator, communicator, collaborator. This is a people-centric role where your ability to form relationships, rapport and trust can reap rewards - for our business and our employees. Certifications we are looking for are: Scrum Master (Scrum.org or Scrum Alliance) Kanban Practitioner (KMP1 Kanban University) ICAgile Coaching and Facilitation Lean/Six Sigma It will be particularly desirable if you have: Experience of working across both business and Digital Teams. Experience influencing and coaching Leadership Teams Experience in design thinking skills familiarity in Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma and scaled agile frameworks Apply Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future. Apply today! We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. #li-kh1 Entity People & Culture Job Family Group Business Support Group Relocation available No Travel required Negotiable Time Type Full time Country United Kingdom About BP PEOPLE & CULTURE People & culture discovers, empowers and cares for brilliant people, and so can you. Together, we can build and enable our ‎culture, emotionally connected leaders and dynamic teams - and help our company achieve its purpose for ‎people and our planet. Join us and work closely with our business by:‎ • always putting our people first, understanding and responding to their needs, supporting their health, ‎wellbeing and recognising them for great work • hiring and developing talented people and empowering them to progress • enabling an inclusive and agile culture, where our teams thrive and add value • developing emotionally connected leaders who continuously learn, put others first and enable everyone to be at their best • creating energising workplaces that enable collaboration and innovation.‎