In the role as Agile Delivery Lead, you will lead, coach, motivate and influence teams and individual team members in a complex and sometimes challenging environment where we strive to find simple and efficient solutions to complex challenges for IKEA. When navigating the complex challenges, you will have the chance to make complex things simpler and more understandable for the many. You will be responsible for the adoption of lean and agile principles, so teams are effective in achieving its purpose, creating, and delivering customer and business value to IKEA, by facilitating and coaching agile ways of working in an environment of transformation.
What about the team? You will work with 1-3 or our product and platform teams where you will be sharing your knowledge of agile (scrum) methodology, including key events and artefacts. You will be facilitating collaboration and alignment between teams to secure engagement around shared business objectives. With strong problem-solving skills and with your ability to navigate through blockers and obstacles you continuously improve and shape the agile approach to suit the team and context, step-by-step and day by day.
This role will also include, but not be limited to:
Provide coaching, guidance and training for teams and leaders to adopt, implement and improve agile ways of working.
Identify and diagnose issues in the team’s way of working, to ensure continuous improvement.
Educate and help members of the team to understand how they can contribute to becoming a high performing team.
Provide transparency and visibility on the team’s activity and progress to be able to quickly respond to change.
Be a contributing part of the team, making sure that every member can deliver efficiently and with high quality.
The IKEA culture and values are crucial for our business and day to day work life. For you to thrive and grow with IKEA it’s important for us that you share our values! You will work in diverse teams with people from all around the world, where we see our differences as a strength and where we embrace everyone's unique contribution! We look forward to your contribution to live and strengthen the IKEA culture and values! You can read more regarding our values and life at IKEA on our website www.ikea.com or just watch this video: https://bit.ly/ikea-what-if
We’re doing some amazing things in IKEA Supply Chain therefore, we need some amazing people – this position is not an exception. We are looking for somebody with a passion for how to work and create value in agile teams, with energy to simplify ways of working! We see that you are highly driven by people and business development and constantly being on the way. You dare to think differently, and you have an agile approach and adapt as we go.
You have a high interest and experience in agile practices, and you can use them wisely to develop group dynamics in the team. You can meet the team they are and support and challenge them by guiding, coaching, and empowering them to be the best they can be - together! To do this you use your experience and high engagement in team development in a digital context. This way you lead and support our business through people as well as collaborate and interact with different stakeholders both within and outside our department. You are strong in managing changes and have interpersonal skills with the ability to build trustful relationships with colleagues of different seniority levels across the organization and across countries.
We also see that you have:
Educational background in IT/Engineering/Business economics and 5 years+ experience of working with agile- teams, practices and frameworks
Good knowledge of IT/Software development practices and execution
Extensive knowledge of group dynamics, servant leadership and the ability to guide, coach and empower self-managed teams
Good knowledge of a digital product-oriented approach in a large international company.
Strong in stakeholder management and communication techniques
Last but not least, you are not afraid of making mistakes when you and we try our way forward in this exciting world of opportunities! At IKEA you will be surrounded by talents, who are eager to learn and develop and where a mistake is seen as an opportunity to learn and grow. Come do some “good” mistakes together with us!
This position is based in Älmhult.
You might have some questions about the recruitment process or the position itself, and we are more than happy to answer those! If you have any questions about the role, please reach out to hiring manager Andreas Castor at [email protected]. Feel free to connect with the People & Culture Specialist [email protected] for more information about the recruitment process.
We look forward to receiving your application at the latest November 28, 2024.
