What You'll Do

　　As a part of Product Engineering – Center of Excellence, Agile Transformation Coach is essential to support product, platform, and service teams across the enterprise. You will lead teams through the design of value offerings, drive implementation of team structures, ensure adoption of Agile mindset and methodologies, and lead continuous improvement programs. You are responsible for teaching and implementing agile principles and methods at the organizational level, advising senior executives, and guiding the organization towards agile ways of working. You will measure the value of team effectiveness, in a manner which is tied to strategic business objectives, and you will lead and model the change of mindset and behaviors. You are a change agent and champion of agility.

　　Supports the development of change management strategies and strategic priorities by:

　　Lead aspects of planning, delivery, development, and execution of change for organizational transformation programs, projects, and initiatives affecting people, technology, and processes

　　Lead & participate in workshops to clarify guiding principles, organizational vision, business transformation, and change management initiatives to CTC’s strategic priorities to effectively identify challenges and opportunities

　　Lead the propagation and implementation of agile practices throughout the organization.

　　Champion and communicate the value of an Agile transformation from a broad perspective for both technology and business teams.

　　Build a leadership and accountability mindset at all levels, helping to develop and evolve the future vision of agility across the organization.

　　Earn trust as an advisor to assigned business group and operate at a group/enterprise-wide level, serving as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.

　　Proactively identify opportunities and deliver the appropriate coaching and mentoring of Agile/SAFe® to all levels of the organization. Provide coaching plans and strategies to teams and individuals

　　Engage teams in a design process of their operating model, and identify the Agile framework and team structure best fit to the business objectives (e.g., current state assessment, value stream mapping, team composition)

　　Support leaders in the planning and implementation of new processes and practices by facilitating a progressive adoption sequence of the Canadian Tire operating model.

　　Ensure the removal of obstacles at the organizational level (e.g., cultural barriers, structural challenges).

　　Facilitate capability assessments within teams and provide recommendations targeted at evolving the learning journeys of product leads, product owners and scrum masters.

　　As part of the CoE, design and deliver meaningful training to educate teams and leadership on the agile mindset, principles, and practices.

　　Assist internal clients to recruit, onboard and deploy agile roles.

　　Assist with launching and coaching pods and squads.

　　Define and measure agile maturity to support continuous improvement.

　　Assist in the development of strategic plans for enterprise agility programs.

　　What You Bring

　　Mindset And Behaviors

　　A go getter, someone who works to understand current state and can quickly implement solutions.

　　Aligned to the generation of value, and able to identify and coach processes and behaviors that drive value.

　　Confident–not afraid to do what is best for the organization.

　　Brings a high-energy and passionate outlook to the role.

　　Able to build a sense of trust and build relationships that create a vibrant work environment

　　Demonstrates empathy, concern for others, practicality and patience that makes it possible to be an effective change agent.

　　Uses emotional intelligence and humility to understand what motivates people.

　　Motivated, flexible, and resilient.

　　Domain Expertise/Agile Experience

　　5+ years coaching at the Organizational/Enterprise level, preferably at multiple companies

　　5+ years coaching at the Team level

　　Ability to coordinate and navigate the organization to guide senior executives towards agile methods

　　Extensive experience leading large scale transformations

　　Expertise with operating model design, organizational change management and culture change

　　Knowledge in organizational design, business agility and agile leadership

　　Design of stable and multifunctional teams aligned to value streams

　　Demonstrated ability to promote the agile mindset, share knowledge in agile, lean, and different frameworks / ways of working or implementation

　　SAFe® Agilist Certification or equivalent is a must. SAFe ® SPC is strongly recommended.

　　Individual Skills:

　　Ability to build organizational structures that help the evolution of high-performance teams

　　Experience with SAFe® and tools that help improve and optimize value streams (e.g., value stream mapping, Kanban)

　　Expert facilitator with the ability to train and coach team members to executives

　　Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex ideas in easy-to-understand terms to people in all levels of leadership and across the organization

　　Executive presence with exceptional influencing skills

　　Competence in using Jira, Confluence, other analytical software tools, data analysis methods and reporting techniques

　　Knowledge of Retail Business is an asset

　　Hybrid

　　At Canadian Tire we work flexibility embracing ‘Hybrid’ whereby individuals utilize a combination of working at a CTC campus and or virtually in service of outcomes. Determined by managers, decisions around work location will be made based on business and team needs and grounded in a desire to support individual well-being and personal needs. Our goal is to empower teams and individuals to make the right decisions for them, and we expect that to look different for everyone.

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　　About Us

　　Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

　　Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

　　We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

　　Accommodations

　　We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.

　　We are one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer can.

　　We are always on the lookout for curious, creative people who are able to navigate and excel in a rapidly evolving retail environment. If you’re ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here, so apply today.