Enterprise Agility Lead, Methodology and Assurance

Our Purpose

Working in Partnership for a happier world – our shared Purpose that guides us in everything we do and inspires 3 important principles; happier people, happier business, happier world. The John Lewis Partnership is a truly unique business, one that seeks to make a positive difference to the lives of everyone.

At a glance

This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home and the Bracknell and the London Head Office on occasions for business needs.

However, there will also be an expectation to visit other locations as needed. 

The salary range for this role is set at £68,500.00 - £128,000.00

Contract type 

This position is Permanent

About the Role

 Here at the John Lewis Partnership, we are driving change through a value stream model, the purpose of which is to Enable aligned business, change and technology outcomes at the right pace and lower costs.

 As a leader in this key role, your focus is to enable and ensure ongoing improvement and maturity with regard to ways of working for how change is delivered in the value streams through creating agreed Partnership frameworks for delivering change that covers digital product management, projects and programmes, and Continuous Improvement. 

As well as creating the frameworks, the role will be responsible for creating and maintaining a process for objective assessment of the application of the frameworks, and provide feedback to teams within value streams on maturity, thereby contributing to the ongoing improvement of the application of the change frameworks. 

Your core focus in each of these will be: 

Methodology 

You will serve as a technical expert, setting the strategic direction for the creation of a new Partnership-wide framework for Product management, Project/Programme management and Continuous improvement/Process redesign. These frameworks will guide change across the Partnership, ensuring the right level of alignment and autonomy in the way that change is delivered. You will be responsible for the design, maintenance, access and assurance of the methodologies on an ongoing basis. You will seek feedback and improve the frameworks over time. 

Assurance 

The frameworks will be underpinned by a system that drives an objective ongoing assessment of how the frameworks are applied across the Partnership. The system will be used to give teams and leaders objective feedback on the ways of working within the value streams with the purpose of enabling teams to continuously improve how they apply the frameworks to deliver change more effectively. As part of this assessment, you will bring new perspectives in agile and Systems thinking to influence and guide senior leaders to deliver complex change. This objective measurement and feedback will also form part of the value stream quarterly business review process. 

In this role, you will also be the designer and implementer - in conjunction with the Scaling Agility Lead - to create a maturity view of the overall system of change (i.e the scaled agile framework) that will enable other teams  to continually improve the overall design and delivery of change. 

This role will be operating at the Shared Capability Area (SCA) leadership level, effectively acting as a leader to their own team of Enterprise Agility Coaches and as a member of the SCA leadership team.

Through your Enterprise Agility SCA, you will have the opportunity to develop and stretch personally and professionally to achieve your potential.

Essential Skills

• Experience in Systems thinking, lean and agile/product techniques which may include higher-level Agile certifications such as Prokanban trained trainer (PSKT), Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), SAFe (SPC)

• Experience in building and running capability building services with connections to external certifying bodies

• Understanding of and proven experience in facilitating, mentoring, training and/or offering professional coaching to leaders and teams 

• Working experience in one or more of the following Agile methods or frameworks: Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban, LeSS, DAD, etc.

• Experience in designing and running an agile at scale process including quarterly planning visualisation and measurement

• A proven track record in applying lean and/or systemic e2e system redesign outside of software teams 

• Ability to flex between applying lean and flow principles in many situations in different work systems 

Desirable

Working experience in applying the Vanguard method and or Deming's system of profound knowledge,

Benefits of the Partnership 

•  💻 - Hybrid Working. 

• 🏖️ - Full - time working holiday entitlement 25 days holiday), plus public and bank holidays (this is prorated for part time hours).

• ⚖ - Excellent work life balance, including focus on well being and flexible working and our marketing leading equal parenthood leave Policy

• 🐷 - Defined Contribution pension scheme where your contributions will be matched by the Partnership (up to 8% of pay) and, after three years’ service, you’ll receive an additional Partnership contribution of 4% of pay, regardless of whether you pay in or not

• 🤑 - You’ll get Partnership discount in store and online once you complete your Earning Membership period. That’s 25% off in John Lewis (12% off electrical products, some exclusions apply) and 20% in Waitrose (some exclusions apply) You’ll also be able to nominate someone you live with to share your discount.

• 🚴 -  Simple cycle to work support scheme

• 🏰 - We’re really proud of our exclusive hotels based in some of Britain’s most beautiful areas and once you’ve been with us for three months, you’re welcome to explore them

• 💗 - Health Care cover

• 🚗 - Car allowance  

• 🌱 -  Learn more about our extensive range of exciting benefits that you could enjoy when you join us, visit  - ttps://www.jlpjobs.com/about/benefits/

Next Steps

The application form consists of a CV upload followed by application questions. Please ensure you refresh the page each time you complete a task to ensure you complete everything that you need to in time. (If internal, check your Workday notifications and see further guidance on the PDW under "Internal application process"

Once you've submitted an application the next steps of the process, if successful, will include a 1ststage virtual interview followed by a more detailed Stage 2 Interview.

You'll be asked about any adjustments you might need to support the recruitment process. Let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss it with you. 

Thanks for your interest in joining the John Lewis Partnership

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