Senior Enterprise Agility Coach

Position Summary

Supports ERIE’s Business Agility transformation, which is focused on implementing efforts to enable the ability to respond to change, learn and pivot, and deliver at speed in a competitive market. Collaborates across disciplines in design, lean, agile, lean portfolio management, and six sigma/continuous improvement to create a maturity and evolution plan to support Erie’s employees toward confidently delivering value to our Enterprise outcomes. 

• Candidates with below minimum qualifications may be considered for Enterprise Agility Coach (F13). Number of years and scope of experience will be used to determine the level.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Supports creation of maturity plans around processes, mindsets, behaviors, and competencies.
• Collaborates with the Director, organizational leaders and product teams to support implementation, scale, and continuous improvement practices in identified enterprise agility competency areas. 
• Knowledgeable on enterprise agility best practices; assesses current agility environment with teams in different stages of their agility journey.
• Supports Director and leaders in creation of a strategic, milestone-based plan for business agility transformation including tracking progress. 
• Supports coaches to facilitate a collaborative partnership and community of practice with other coaches and practitioners across the organization.
• Establishes clear communication and storytelling via presentations, key performance metrics, reports, and data; effectively communicates with customers, team members, or other stakeholders. Participates in EPLT and Steering Committee.

Duties and Responsibilities (cont'd if applicable)

• Institutes the concepts of design, lean, agile, lean portfolio management, and six sigma/continuous improvement practices and principles. 
• Achieves results through teamwork and collaboration; drives results through partnership and learning, embodies learning environment.
• Supports and contributes to agility education and training program. 
• Facilitates forums to improve methodologies and practices. 

The first eight listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished. 

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become evident.

Capabilities

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree and four years’ relevant work experience in complex initiatives and multi-discipline areas demonstrating: Coordinating across Business and IT organizations, Process and metrics development expertise; or, 
• Associate degree and six years’ relevant work experience in complex initiatives and multi-discipline areas demonstrating: Coordinating across Business and IT organizations, Process and metrics development expertise; or 
• High School Diploma and eight years’ relevant work experience in complex initiatives and multi-discipline areas demonstrating: Coordinating across Business and IT organizations, Process and metrics development expertise; required 

Additional Experience

• Demonstrates an Agile mindset and working knowledge of Agile techniques.
• Experience in applying Lean, Agile, Six Sigma or Continuous Improvement practices to medium to high complexity portfolios, required.
• Experience in Design Thinking practices and tools Experience in organizational change management, required.

Physical Requirements