Senior Manager - Agile Coach - 1189 - CLP

General Information

Job Name

Senior Manager - Agile Coach

Country / Region

Hong Kong SAR

Employing Entity

CLP Holdings Limited

Business Group

Digital

Country

Hong Kong

Department

Digital Services

Branch

N/A

Career Level

Middle

Employee Category

Full-time, Permanent

Date

01-03-2023

Description & Requirements

CLP has a large program of exciting and interesting work in the coming years that will have a meaningful impact to support both our decarbonisation and degitalisation goals across the Group. With CLP’s commitment to be carbon net zero, and the range of new products and services that CLP is launching to the market that support our customers to decarbonise, this is purposeful and impactful work for the right candidate.

We are looking for a high caliber Agile Coach to join the CLP Digital Services team. Your role will be to scale and champion agile delivery approaches (Scrum, OKRs, customer mindset, MVPs) within Digital Services and across the broader organisation. As one example, adopting an agile approach, CLP launched Smart Energy Connect (SEC), a platform that offers businesses and organisations access to a diverse selection of smart energy management applications and IoT solutions developed by CLP and its product partners. We seek to expand this way of working across more teams.

If you enjoy working in a collaborative start-up style environment and experience in working with/in corporate environments and are passionate about agile methodologies, this role may be the right fit for you. As an agile coach you’re an integral part of the Digital Service team, working closely with business and technical teams across products, projects and operations to deliver change in the culture.

The Position Profile:

• A highly collaborative role, the candidate will drive success working and engaging with others with the organisation which maybe through influence rather than authority

• Create, curate and Enable the organization’s new way of working through hands on coaching of pilot and project teams in adopting the Agile mindset, principles and practices in delivery of digital and innovation initiatives and projects

• Identify business value and impact in country teams through adopting the Agile Ways of Working and lead agile workshops for both development and functional teams as well as key stakeholder

• Partners up with other departmental leaders, internal stakeholders and sales team in order to align and execute agile strategies and ensure that the product managers and technology team receive the right agile culture coaching

• Responsible for spearheading the Agile operating model and practices from both prior experience and observations from ongoing implementation and coaching experience

• Develop and implement processes to help organize and scale product lifecycle activities and the product management workflow

• Drive adoption using change management practices and activities with ongoing maturity assessment for continuous improvement

• Partners up with other departmental leaders, internal stakeholders and sales team in order to deploy the OKR framework as a means to change the way we work and achieve the right goals and targets

• Communicate progress and practices

• Over time develop repeatable processes and practices across departments and deliver a change program to ensure new ways of working can be adopted and the right buy-in and adoption is achieved

• Develop strong working relationships with colleagues, partners, subject matter experts, entrepreneurs, and networks inside and outside of CLP

Requirements:

• A recognised university degree in product design, computer science, engineering, business administration or related field

• At least 10 years’ experience in agile product development and delivery with at least 2 years managing and executing the OKR framework

• Previous experience in digital transformation projects in other corporates would be of advantage

• Previous experience in using the objective key result framework to management companies would be of advantage

• Experience in OKRs, Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe)

• Must be able to showcase examples of implementing agile techniques in different cultures and environments

• Excellent facilitation skills and demonstrated leader, educator, and influencer

• An excellent communicator and motivator

• Capability in both spoken and written Chinese (Putonghua and simplified Chinese) is preferable.

• Self-motivated with ability to work independently to perform in a dynamic, multi-cultural, matrix organisation and influence outcomes.

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