Agile Coach

Job title Agile Coach

About the job

At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need. It’s about harnessing data insights and leveraging AI responsibly to search deeper and solve sooner than ever before. We are seeking an experienced Agile Coach in Hyderabad to join our Global Agile CoE. As an Agile Coach, you will play a crucial role in driving agile transformation and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within our organization.

What you will be doing

• Coach and mentor teams in adopting agile principles and behaviors
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, continuous delivery and outcome-driven decision-making
• Guide sustainable cadence in product development
• Bring agility into product discovery and hypothesis validation thinking
• Learning from data and take decision from it
• Support collaboration between cross-functional product teams (PO, Full-Stack Developers, Data Professionals, UX/UI) & business stakeholders
• Identify and Remove impediments for continuous flow and improvement.
• Drive organizational change and support teams to embrace a product mindset through their agile transformation journey.
• Mentor Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and team members
• Promote agile values, principles, and mindset across the organization
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align agile practices in service of achieving business objectives.
• Document emergent operating model principles that aid in successful product discovery and hypothesis validation.
• Develop best practices and templates for contracting with vendors providing Agile delivery services.
• Contribute to setup and ongoing improvement of Agile CoE’s training packages, service offerings and practices.
• Provide advice process and structural changes at the organization level
• Suggest organizations policies to support Agile ways of working

About you

• Proven success in coaching Product Owners and teams to scale products across multiple countries and stakeholders

• Track-record of success as an Agile Coach in complex environments

• Experience in working in domain knowledge relevant to the data science projects (e.g. knowledge of industry regulations, data privacy considerations, domain-specific metrics, and business processes)

• Proven participation in successful, global agile transformation.

• Technical Skills

• Solid knowledge of Lean & Agile practices, UX/UI and Application Design & Integration

• Understand the technology stack and be able to guide the team on best practices for tool selection, integration, and usage

• Demonstrated understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks relevant to highly regulated industries.

• Strong facilitation, teaching, mentoring and coaching skills.

• Experience with organization design and operating model considerations.

• Change management expertise

• Soft skills

• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, backlog management, and release planning for achieving significant outcomes

• Excellent communication, mentoring, and leadership skills for effective coaching and team influence

• Be comfortable promoting a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement within the team

About Agile CoE

The purpose of Agile CoE is to cultivate high-performing teams that efficiently create products accelerating Sanofi’s journey from discovery to therapy. Agile CoE is a global collective of agilists committed to accelerating speed of product delivery by instilling a product mindset in a learning organization that has a fit-for-purpose operating model.

Why choose us?

• We provide a highly collaborative environment, with an opportunity to work with a world class team

• Contribute to a company that is not only a leader in healthcare but also a pioneer in digital transformation, shaping the future of global health

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together. At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!