Agile Coach

Are you ready for a new beginning?
We need your talent, knowledge and dedication to better our world with biology.

Our purpose points the way
In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless.

We’re here to better our world with biology.

Are you passionate about lean-agile practices and ways of working?
At Novonesis IT, we are excited about our future in enabling business through technology. To achieve this, we embrace a lean-agile mindset and ways of working. As a newly combined IT organization we are on a journey towards aligned ways of working.

Therefore, we are looking for an agile coach to help teams and IT colleagues apply and benefit from our ways of working (WoW) framework. This framework covers the portfolio, project, and team layer. It the ecosystem through which the project portfolio is prioritized, ideas are matured into projects, solutions are delivered incrementally and iteratively, and teams prioritize and execute deliverables.

You will work with IT colleagues and Product Owners in business to maximize value delivered by the IT organization and improve customer engagement.

Welcome to Enterprise PPMO & Ways of Working in Novonesis IT
Join our small team of specialists within lean portfolio management, project management, quality/compliance, and lean-agile expertise. We aim to enhance business satisfaction through professional project and change management, and mature ways of working to maximize IT's value to the organization and help balance demand / supply to ensure sustainable working conditions.

As our new colleague, you will help strengthen our agile practices like Scrum, Kanban, and big room planning. If you're passionate about training and coaching colleagues in agile methodologies and delivering projects with an agile mindset, you might be the perfect fit for our team.

In this role, you'll make an impact by:

• Coaching, advising, and mentoring colleagues and teams in agile practices such as flow principles, scrum, incremental delivery, agile project execution, product management, and user/customer centricity.
• Ensuring lean-agile ways of working are easily understood and applied to bring value to the team and IT ecosystem.
• Spreading lean-agile practices throughout the IT organization.
• Providing guidance on using Azure DevOps to support the planning and execution of project work and changes to existing solutions, ensuring transparency on progress, and providing hints on improvement area. We use Azure DevOps to manage backlogs and boards for teams, projects, and our portfolio.
• Building a strong practice around agile project execution and supporting the evolution of our Agile Playbook.

To succeed, you must have:

• Extensive experience with agile practices and methodologies in agile project execution.
• Relevant Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe certification with a proven track record in training and coaching others, and applying agile practices in a pragmatic way that fits with the context of the team etc.
• Experience with business transformations, comfort in dynamic environments, and excellence in execution.
• Strong communication and change management skills, with a flair for unlocking passion in others.
• The ability to vary your personal style between being a coach, trainer, advisor, and servant leader, responding to your audience.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written.
• Typically, these characteristics are acquired through a master’s degree in business or technology and some years of consultancy experience.

Application deadline: October 31, 2024
Contact details: Malene Vestergaard, Head of Enterprise PPMO & Ways of Working (email [email protected] or mobile +45 30771721).

At Novonesis we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. We recommend you not to attach a cover letter to your application. Instead, please include a few sentences in your resume/CV about why you are applying. To ensure a fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your resume/CV.

Novonesis is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, or veteran status.

Could our purpose be yours? Then apply today!

At Novonesis we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. We recommend you not to attach a cover letter to your application. Instead, please include a few sentences in your resume/CV about why you are applying. To ensure a fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your resume/CV.

Novonesis is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, or veteran status.

Want to learn more?
Learn more about Novonesis, our purpose, and your career opportunities at novonesis.com

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Location: Lyngby

Additional location:

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