Agile Coach

5 months ago


Auckland City, New Zealand QBE Full time

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Newly created role in the Technology Team

Permanent, full time

Auckland based

The opportunity
- Newly created hybrid role with the opportunity to make a real difference to how we do things.
- Opportunity to take QBE on a journey of discovery & change.
- Nurture an agile mindset, guide people through transformation and improvement, and cultivate cultural and human change.
- Passionate and collaborative colleagues and stakeholders, in cross functional agile working teams
- Permanent, full-time role, based in Auckland.
- Hybrid working and happy to talk flexible.

Your new role

Reporting to the GM Technology and Delivery, you will be in a hybrid role combining Agile coaching and leadership and key functions of the Release Train Engineer.

You will be responsible for:

- Thought leadership across the Agile spectrum.
- Set the standards and the language, whilst enabling an Agile culture across the business
- Improve teams and leadership groups, to increase collaboration, innovation, and introduce techniques that promote adaptability and flexibility to better serve QBE customers.
- Providing agile coaching across to Senior Leadership, value streams and or large-scale projects.
- Facilitate Agile Release Trains (ART) events, communicate with stakeholders, escalate impediments, help manage risk and drive improvement.
- Work with the Product Manager for delivery of Run, Change and Transform work across Squads

More information and the full job profile can be shared with you during the interview process.

About you

With a passion for people, business improvement and taking the business on a journey you will:

- Be an experienced an Agile Coach or Release Train Engineer
- Have worked on large scale transformations at leadership & enterprise level & are confident with stakeholder & senior leadership relationship management
- Have led complex scale change to agile ways of working using SAFe, Scrum and Kanban.
- Have proven experience & results in partnering with vendors and suppliers, in particular IT, business consulting and outsourcing providers.
- Be certified in either relevant Lean, Agile, or Scaled Agile certifications.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 11,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen

**Benefits**:
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection, trauma insurance & Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Gold Employer status for 4 years in a row 2019 - 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
- Family First accredited employer since 2021

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with accessibility requirements and adjustments, alternative work arrangements or you would like


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