Agile Coach

Sanoma Media All jobs
Remote Spain
1 month(s) ago
Job Overview
Company Sanoma Media
Job Typefulltime
First Seen 1 month(s) ago

Job Description

Job Title Senior Agile Coach Location Barcelona or Madrid Tres Cantos Type Full-time Work model remote work setup with occasional visits to the office either in Madrid Tres Cantos or Barcelona (2-3 times per year) Type of contract permanent contract of employment Location Please note that your designated home office will be in Spain. Therefore you will be required to work exclusively from within Spain. About the Role - We're looking for an experienced Agile Coach to help drive organizational effectiveness delivery excellence and continuous improvement across our business. In this role you'll work with teams leaders Project Managers Scrum Masters and business stakeholders to enable successful strategy execution through coaching organizational change agile adoption and capability building. You'll play a key role in ensuring that strategic initiatives don't just get delivered—they become embedded into the way we work. If you're passionate about coaching people improving organizations and leveraging AI to enhance delivery and collaboration we'd love to hear from you. What you'll do Enable high-performing teams Coach teams to continuously improve collaboration delivery effectiveness and value creation. Facilitate agile ceremonies workshops retrospectives planning sessions and problem-solving activities. Help teams improve flow predictability and sustainable delivery. Support the adoption and long-term embedding of new ways of working. Drive organizational change Support strategic initiatives governance improvements and transformation programs. Design and facilitate workshops training and adoption activities. Translate strategic objectives into practical team behaviors and operating practices. Ensure organizational improvements are successfully adopted and sustained. Partner with stakeholders Build strong relationships with Team Leads Scrum Masters Project Managers and business leaders. Align priorities across teams domains and business units. Facilitate collaboration transparency and shared ownership across complex initiatives. Act as a trusted advisor on organizational effectiveness and delivery excellence. Build organizational capability Coach Scrum Masters Team Leads Project Managers and delivery teams. Design and deliver coaching mentoring and learning programs. Mentor Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters. Contribute to Communities of Practice and knowledge-sharing initiatives. Improve delivery and operating models Identify systemic impediments risks and improvement opportunities. Use delivery metrics flow data and feedback to drive measurable improvements. Contribute to the evolution of delivery practices governance and operating models. Promote evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement. Leverage AI and innovation Help teams adopt AI-enabled tools to improve productivity collaboration and decision-making. Identify opportunities for automation and agentic ways of working. Encourage experimentation and continuous learning. Stay up to date with emerging industry trends and AI capabilities translating them into practical business value. Must-have requirements Education & languages ✅ Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent practical experience. ✅English proficiency B2/C1 (both written and spoken communication). ✅Spanish proficiency C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication). Experience & skills ✅ 5+ years' experience as an Agile Coach Scrum Master Delivery Coach or similar role in Agile environments. ✅ Proven experience coaching multiple teams and stakeholders in complex cross-functional organizations. ✅ Bachelor's or Master's degree or equivalent practical experience. ✅ Strong understanding of Agile principles and their pragmatic application to business needs. ✅ Experience facilitating workshops training and organizational change initiatives. ✅ Proven track record of implementing adopting and sustaining organizational improvements and transformation initiatives. ✅ Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across all organizational levels. ✅ Ability to advise leaders and teams on ways of working and organizational effectiveness. ✅ Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify dependencies risks and root causes. ✅ Experience using delivery data flow metrics and organizational insights to drive continuous improvement. ✅ Hands-on experience leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve productivity decision-making facilitation delivery effectiveness and continuous improvement. ✅ Strong interest in emerging AI and agentic ways of working translating new capabilities into practical business value. ✅ Experience with digital collaboration delivery management analytics and AI-enabled tools. ✅ Excellent communication facilitation coaching and relationship-building skills. ✅ Proven ability to manage complexity and thrive in changing ambiguous environments. ✅ Strong conflict resolution consensus-building and influencing skills without formal authority. ✅ Experience working across domains and competencies to deliver strategic initiatives and organizational goals. Nice-to-Have Skills - Advanced Agile certifications (PSM II/III ICP-ACC ICP-ENT or equivalent). Experience working in PMO transformation organizational change or delivery enablement environments. Experience scaling ways of working across multiple teams value streams or business units. Experience building and facilitating Communities of Practice. Experience supporting cross-domain and cross-competence initiatives. Experience with value stream management portfolio delivery or operating model design. Experience embedding AI-enabled data-driven or agentic ways of working into organizational practices. Analytical technical product development or business transformation background. Experience mentoring Agile Coaches Scrum Masters or delivery leaders. People leadership experience. ❤️About us Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary secondary and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe. About Sanoma Learning How do you prepare students for the world engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company. Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary secondary and vocational education we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students. So are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential? Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer we are committed to inclusion and diversity ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or any other characteristics.

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