Agile Transformation Coach
Function
Our client is looking for an experienced Agile transformation expert to help shape and strengthen a large-scale IT transformation. The assignment combines strategic advice, hands-on coaching, governance design, and measurable improvement to support a more mature and sustainable Agile way of working across the organization.
Responsibilities
The role covers several key deliverables focused on transformation, leadership, and organizational change:
- Conduct Agile maturity assessments across the current way of working and relevant transformation domains.
- Analyze the current operating context, including IT governance, collaboration with architecture, security, portfolio management, and leadership.
- Identify strengths, gaps, risks, and priority improvement areas.
- Challenge existing Agile practices using external expertise, proven best practices, and sound Agile principles.
- Translate the digital strategy into concrete transformation initiatives, priorities, and objectives.
- Work with management, Agile Coaches, and relevant stakeholders to define the desired future state.
- Support strategic decision-making and prioritization within the transformation roadmap.
- Identify dependencies, risks, and conditions required for successful implementation.
- Support the design of a future-proof operating model, including roles, responsibilities, decision structures, and collaboration models.
- Translate Agile principles into practical IT governance within the organization’s context.
- Ensure alignment between teams, management, portfolio, governance, and strategic objectives.
- Define KPIs, metrics, and maturity indicators to track progress, impact, and value in a transparent way.
- Help IT leadership and Agile Coaches interpret and use metrics for continuous improvement.
- Coach and mentor the Agile Coaching Team, strengthening its capabilities in change, stakeholder management, management coaching, systems thinking, and Agile transformation.
- Support Agile Coaches in complex coaching and transformation challenges.
- Guide management and leadership teams in Agile leadership, autonomy, transparency, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate workshops and support leadership alignment around the transformation vision and expected behaviors.
Technical Skills
The ideal profile brings strong expertise in Agile and Lean, with extensive experience supporting transformation in complex IT environments. You should be able to coach both teams and leadership while helping embed new ways of working in a sustainable manner.
- Agile & Lean
- Agile Coaching & Mentoring
- Agile Transformation
- Change Management
- Agile Governance
- Agile Maturity Assessment
- Agile Tooling
- Metrics & KPI’s
- Facilitation Techniques
- Organizational Design & Scaling
For this expert-level assignment, strong and demonstrable experience is expected in the core areas of Agile & Lean, Agile Coaching & Mentoring, Change Management, and Facilitation Techniques.
Profile
You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic and results-driven mindset. You are comfortable working in complex transformation environments and can turn abstract change ambitions into concrete actions and measurable outcomes.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring capabilities.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, both written and verbal.
- A constructive mindset that challenges existing ways of working when needed.
- Hands-on, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented approach.
- Ability to make complex change understandable for diverse stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work autonomously in a complex organizational setting.
- Focus on knowledge transfer and sustainable change.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
Candidates are also expected to provide a short written response on the key success factor for sustainable Agile transformation in a large organization, including how transformation vision is translated into roadmap, governance, leadership, measurable objectives, and organizational buy-in. A practical example and a description of the personal role played in that context should be included.
Practical Information
The assignment is based in Brussels, with the possibility to work partly from home.
- Languages: Dutch or French, and English
Contactperson & Reference
- Reference #: INW27927
- Marilyn Weytens
- marilyn.weytens@i4m.be
