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As an Agile Delivery Manager for AIA Digital+ Agile team, you will drive successful Agile delivery of business-critical initiatives across different AIA country markets through impact-focused Agile delivery support and coaching.
AIA Digital+ Agile team in the Philippines will help supplement critical skills for our local market teams. This role will support multiple initiatives across different country teams as an embedded team member to help coach and drive successful Agile delivery. Exposure to a wide selection of AIA initiatives and markets is one of the opportunities associated with the role. You will also be a founding member of an exciting new high-skilled AIA Group business unit based in the Philippines.
Roles and responsibilities:
Agile Delivery- 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.
- Leverage 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.
- Uphold the Shared Service team's reputation as a provider of excellence through consistent and reliable impact delivery.
- Support to establish and implement the Agile operating model principles, terminology, practices and governance to be used across AIA.
- Play 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.
Agile Facilitation and Coaching- 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.
- Play 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
MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS:- Extensive Agile delivery experience, as a tech or non-tech delivery focused super Scrum Master, Agile Coach or Delivery Manager
- Experience driving and supporting delivery across different countries
- You are a strong change agent and can influence mindset and behaviors, particularly for delivery teams
- You are a self-starter, with the ability to ideate, plan, and execute Agile related initiatives to support new ways of working
- You are passionate about agile, innovation and change and are excited to promote and embed them across the organization
- You love coaching people to embrace change and new ways of working
- You are intellectually curious and love learning new skills and capabilities
- You have a strong knowledge in Agile ways of working including values, principles, practices and tools
- You are courageous and comfortable coaching and challenging agile team
