Senior Agile Consultant

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, Netherlands

Job Family Group:

Information Technology (IT)

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

January 6, 2023

Business unit:

Projects and Technology

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Where you fit in

As a Senior Agile Consultant 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. Agile coaches help the organization, teams and individuals in building the Agile mindset using Agile principles and practices through coaching, facilitation, mentoring and change managements skills.

Leadership Skills

As a product oriented 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.
Maximize 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.


What’s the role?

As an Senior Agile Consultant, you must embody an agnostic agile mindset, experimental approach, applying the right mix of support and challenge that empower teams to continuously improve.


Coach cross-functional platform vertical teams on optimising Agile ways of working, identifying waste, improving feedback loops.
Contribute to our Agile Community of Practice (CoP) re: Lean-Agile principles and practices.
A coach embedded with a cross functional team of product owners, project management, UX design, engineering managers and other internal stakeholders to facilitate outcomes of discovery and definition phases.
Facilitate key Team of Teams events, retrospectives and workshops, e.g. Story mapping, value stream mapping, Scrum of Scrums, Product Alignment; ensure synchronisation between Team of Teams and Team-level agile cadence.
Maintain a focus on Lean/ Kanban metrics, leading and lagging indicators (e.g. Percentile confidence of delivery, WIP aging, lead and cycle time).
Raise visibility of Team of Team level impediments, risks and dependencies.
Support or generate Agile project management reports (e.g. generate Jira queries, planned vs. earned value reports).
Ensure psychological safety and an engaging space for team collaboration, learning and agility maturity assessments to bring about continuous and measurable improvements.
Work closely with the platform vertical lead to ensure alignment between strategy and execution.
Line-manage other team members.


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

As an Senior Agile Consultant, you must have the following skills/qualifications:


You have an agnostic approach to agility and can pragmatically blend approaches to cocreate disciplined and fit-for-purpose Agile ways of working with teams.
Demonstrated experience leading Agile change/scaling experiments with two or more teams.
Hands-on experience coaching and supporting Agile teams, a toolkit of practices and techniques to help them address challenges, learn fast and realise growth potential.
Mid-level experience working with ADO to support Product roadmap artefacts, team boards, queries and workflows. ADO advanced experience desired but not mandatory.
Strong analytical skills that enable you to draw insights, collaborate and co-create achievable solutions with people or teams.
A track record of servant-leadership and collaborating with internal stakeholders across various business areas, at all levels.
Exceptional soft skills, active listening, outstanding facilitation and situational awareness.
You take the time to understand the context and establish a common understanding whilst remaining open-minded.
Experience employing facilitation tools and techniques such as: Management 3.0, liberating structures, 4 C’s, online collaboration tools (e.g. Mural).
Able to engage the wider organisation via presentations, lunch and learns or other formats.
You’ve been a practitioner (Product owner, Scrum master, UX designer), and preferably certified by one or more of the following organisations: ICAgile, PMI, Scrum Alliance, Scrum.org.
Experience of multiple Lean-Agile frameworks and methods, including Scrum or Kanban.


Skills:


Design Thinking
High emotional intelligence and mature soft skills
Energy, oil and gas experience
Azure DevOps Boards administration and mentoring skills


If you hold one or more of the below qualifications / accreditations this would be an advantage:


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


Company Description

Shell Nederland BV is a platform for international collaboration, with Shell offering direct employment to around ten thousand people in the Netherlands alone, including roughly 2,800 non-Dutch employees from around 80 countries. Diversity is key at Shell Nederland, and our employees reflect the innovation that stems from a diverse workforce. By joining Shell Nederland, you will benefit from an unrivalled industry-leading development programme that will see you tap into a pool of expert knowledge that will help propel your career. Shell Nederland is the holding company of most Shell companies operating in the Netherlands. Shell Nederland also has an advisory and coordinating role in numerous areas.

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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DISCLAIMER:

Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Shell jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Before applying, you are advised to read our data protection policy. This policy describes the processing that may be associated with your personal data and informs you that your personal data may be transferred to Shell/Shell Group companies around the world. The Shell Group and its approved recruitment consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with Shell. Anyone who demands such a fee is not an authorised Shell representative and you are strongly advised to refuse any such demand. Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

According to the United Nations, the global population could increase to more than 10 billion people. A key role for society – and for Shell – is to find ways to meet the growing demand for energy, with less carbon emissions. We need people who dare to think differently – to take part in developing tomorrow’s energy solutions today.

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