Agile Coach

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an Agile Coach to work for our client within the Public Sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with very good prospects to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London, requiring 1 day per week on site.

Our client is undergoing a significant transformation to become a product-centred organisation, implementing agile, product-led ways of working across its technology function. This role will play a key part in shaping and embedding a Product Operating Model, helping multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders adopt consistent product and delivery practices. You'll drive organisational change, improve collaboration, and support teams in delivering better outcomes for users across a large and complex public sector environment.

Responsibilities:

• Coach multidisciplinary teams, Product Managers, Delivery Managers and leaders in agile principles, practices and mindsets.
• Implement Kanban, flow-based delivery and lean approaches to improve delivery predictability and optimise value delivery.
• Identify organisational challenges and delivery constraints, implementing improvements that increase productivity and team effectiveness.
• Support the development and adoption of the organisation's Product Operating Model and product-led ways of working.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder engagement activities and transformation initiatives across multiple teams and service areas.

About You:

• Extensive experience as an Agile Coach leading large-scale agile transformation programmes.
• Strong practical experience with Kanban, lean delivery, flow metrics and continuous improvement practices.
• Proven ability to define and implement OKRs, delivery metrics and performance measures that support data-driven decision making.
• Experience developing delivery roadmaps, aligning work to strategic outcomes and driving organisational change.
• Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills, with experience influencing senior leaders within large and complex organisations.
• Experience supporting Product Operating Model implementation and product-led delivery environments.
• Knowledge of modern product management, lean portfolio management and value stream thinking.
• Previous public sector experience is highly desirable.
• Experience working with Product Managers, Delivery Managers and multidisciplinary digital teams.
• BPSS eligibility required.