Agile Coach, Strategy - Toronto, Canada - CPP Investments

CPP Investments
CPP Investments
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Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization


When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world.

With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability.

The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050.

CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe.

Join our team and look forward to:

  • Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
  • Stimulating work in a fastpaced, intellectually challenging environment
  • Accelerated exposure and responsibility
  • Global career development opportunities
  • Being motivated every day by CPP Investments' important social purpose and unshakable principles
  • A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance


If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.


Job Description:

Role Summary


At CPP Investments, we are looking for an experienced coach to help transition our existing work practices to a full embrace of product approach and agile methodology.

Reporting to Director, Strategy & Operating Office, Technology & Operations, the Agile Coach mentors and guides our agile teams and stakeholders to build agile capability across the organization.

The Agile Coach will play a key role in long-term strategy across the business, helping our teams deliver best products and value in faster and more efficient manner.

The Agile Coach, Strategy & Operating Office is accountable for:


  • Provide ongoing coaching and support to product teams, aiding them in their Agile transformation and facilitating effective planning, team dynamics, operations, and delivery.
  • Guide product teams to adopt and sustain Agile practices and product mindset with flexibility to adjust to accommodate different needs of the teams.
  • Act as a change agent, advocating for Agile principles, continuous improvement, and value delivery throughout the organization.
  • Define and measure agile maturity to drive continuous improvement of Agile practices and value delivery through adoption of industry best practices.
  • Coach teams on development of longterm product planning/roadmap and backlog prioritization, ensuring a healthy backlog that aligns with organizational objectives.
  • Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to define clear objectives and key results (OKRs) to drive value delivery.
  • Set up appropriate metrics to measure and track teams' progress in Agile adoption through various methods like surveys, data analysis, interviews, etc.
  • Promote the use of DevOps practices and tools to enhance software delivery.
  • Coach teams on how to remove complex roadblocks and impediments to change and delivery.
  • Design and deliver meaningful training to educate teams and leadership on the Agile mindset, principles, and practices to enhance the organization's execution and innovation.

Qualifications:


  • An exceptional talent for coaching individuals and teams; the ability to ask the right questions and to provide specific and timely feedback, seeking to encourage individuals/teams to take ownership of their growth
  • Expertise with operating model design, organizational change management and culture change
  • Experience using metrics/OKRs to measure the impact of organizational change initiatives
  • Understanding of product development and delivery; a technical background in web or software development will be an asset
  • Handson experience using various Agile Tools, such as Jira
  • Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of integrity, partnership and high performance.
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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability.


Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience.

If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.


Disclaimer:

CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment