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As a Agilist at Shell, you will have the opportunity to work in a challenging but rewarding environment that is fast paced and changing fundamentally as we transform our business to meet our ambition to be a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050, whilst delivering a world class business case that has a strong societal license to operate. In your career at Shell, you will be expected to enact change and deliver value globally across business lines and geographies.

Agilists help the organization, teams and individuals in building the Agile mindset using Agile principles and practices through coaching, facilitation, mentoring and change managements skills.

Our coaches work in three different styles:

• Agile delivery leadership, leading high performing agile teams across geographies
• Agile coaching, improving how business and technology teams operate and interact
• Agile consultancy, helping stakeholders solve complex problems in a responsive way

What’s the role?

Mentor, coach and lead teams in a collaborative environment focused on achieving an effective Agile Transition.

• Targeted to functional and regional leadership teams.
• Strategic advisor on agile strategy and scaling agility.
• Enterprise and business agility advisor / consultant.
• Agile lead for teams comprising members up to VP level and above.
• Support leadership applying agile frameworks and mindsets.
• Possibility of work with on-site teams, so need may to travel.
• Spinning up new teams and putting structures in place to assure their success.
• Agnostic approach to lean and Agile frameworks, helping teams to choose their ways of working based on their environment and challenges. Sharing of best practices to achieve goals.
• Bring together Teams of Teams and orchestration of teams.
• Implement effective governance, escalation, and reporting.
• Senior stakeholder management.

As your career in Shell progresses, you will be exposed to opportunities both across our diverse lines of business and in our business IT and enterprise IT functions, as well as progressively more challenging assignments that develop your capabilities

What we need from you

The core competences required for this role are:

• Experience of working with multiple lean and Agile frameworks and scaled Agile frameworks
• Extensive experience of working in Agile environments
• Mentoring and coaching skills & experience, online and F2F (Face-to-Face)
• Ability to work with strong stakeholders and demonstrate strength and certainty to them, helping them to achieve goals
• Experience of establishing new teams and big room planning
• Ability to orchestrate multiple teams and establish governance
• Prior experience of working with Azure DevOps Boards as this is our preferred method of sharing work information (tooling experience principles may apply across other delivery products)

Key Skills

• Lean Agile Practices: Ability to learn and deeply understand broad Lean and Agile principles. This includes Lean and Agile values, principles, methods, or frameworks (including but not limited to Scrum, Kanban, XP), as well as practices enabling appropriate application and innovation.
• Agile Facilitation: Ability to be a neutral process holder that guides the individual’s, team’s, or organization’s process of discovery, holding to their purpose, and definition of success
• Agile Mentoring: Ability to impart one’s experience, knowledge and guidance to help grow another person, team, or organization in the same or similar knowledge domains.
• Agile Teaching: Ability to offer the right knowledge, at the right time, taught in the right way, so that individuals, teams and organizations metabolize the knowledge for their best benefit.
• Agile Coaching: Ability to evaluate where people, teams, and organizations are in their Agile journey and offer the right approach to support growth. Professional coaching by asking the right questions, providing advice, challenging people in their thinking and guide them to identify their own solutions to problems. Build high performing programs by helping them embrace agility as a culture shift.
• Enterprise Agile Transformation: Ability to facilitate and catalyze organizational change and transformation to improve their ability to respond to change. This area draws on knowledge and experience of change management, organization culture, organization development, systems thinking, and other behavioral sciences.
• Agile Business Productization: Ability to apply business strategy and management frameworks to employ agile as a competitive business advantage to help organizations move further toward productization, including services. This includes Lean Start-Up, Business model canvas, product innovation techniques, flow-based business process management approaches, and other techniques that relate to innovating in the business domain
• Agile Technical Craftsmanship: Ability to practice and lead elements of end-to-end delivery of a product or service. This includes, but not limited to, ideation, design, development, testing, continuous integration and deployment, DevOps. Ability to understand and properly utilize market standard tools used in the Agile space.

Supplementary skills:

• Design & implement OKRs (Objectives & Key Results)
• Design Thinking
• High emotional intelligence and mature soft skills
• Energy, oil and gas experience
• Program Kanban Boards administration and mentoring skills
• Certified Scrum, Kanban or ICAgile trainer

Qualifications:

if you hold one of the below qualifications / accreditations this would be an advantage

• Certified Enterprise Coach
• Professional Agile Leadership
• Agile training course development and delivery
• ICAgile Coaching Agile Transitions certification
• ICAgile Agile Coaching and/or Team Facilitation certification
• Scrum Master, Product Owner and/or Kanban certification
• PMP or equivalent project management certification

Leadership Skills:

As an Agile professional in Shell, you are also a leader in the natural team and are required to continuously develop your leadership behaviours:

• Live our values and goal zero - We do the right thing with respect to our values, safety and people.
• Maximise our performance - We focus on priorities, seek improvements and work together across teams to close our gap to potential and deliver bottom line commercial results.
• Grow trust in Shell - We work outside in and build strong long-term relationships with customers, partners, and external parties and make a positive contribution to society.
• Engage & inspire - We engage everyone through our connected purpose and inspire people and teams be their best through development, coaching and honest feedback.
• Learner mindset - We have a shared belief that everyone can grow their ability, learn from mistakes & successes and speak up openly in a safe environment

Company Description

Shell started operations in the United Kingdom more than 110 years ago. Since then, we have grown into a leading innovative Oil & Energy company that rewards its employees by investing heavily in their careers and learning. Our people are our greatest asset, and our commitment to your career will see you thrive in a work environment that offers an industry-leading development programme. When your ideas travel, Shell will benefit, and innovation will thrive. Shell has a key role to play in helping meet the UK’s growing energy demand, whilst using innovative technologies to develop cleaner energy. We are the largest FTSE 100 company in the UK by market capitalisation and make a significant contribution to the UK economy. As well as processing 35% of the gas coming into the UK, we serve more than four million customers at our filling stations each week. Shell employs some 6,400 skilled staff as well as many contractors.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell.

Join us and you’ll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to shape the future – whether by investing in oil, gas and renewable energy to meet demand, exploring new ways to store energy, or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently, everyone at Shell does their part.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we are nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills, and reach your potential.

• We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there.
• We’re closing the gender gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.
• We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
• We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.

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