The Senior Manager will lead the Agile transformation at Kraft Heinz, coaching teams, managing Scrum Masters, and driving cross-functional collaboration to enhance productivity and deliver business value.
Job Description
WHO WE ARE
We're one of the world's largest food and beverage companies and a trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods, earning us a spot on 97% of American household tables. As the guardians of our beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally. Today, The Kraft Heinz Company is building a new legacy by investing in a robust Agile@Scale program to revolutionize the food and beverage industry. We are on a journey to create an agile-enterprise - all while honoring a 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic brands. At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an environment where powerful Agile driven solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams relentlessly pursue tangible solutions for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. Our ambition is to drive this transformation alongside key business partners to ensure we're removing bureaucracy, helping teams to better prioritize and increase value delivery, re-engineering current inefficient process while installing trust, transparency and seamless collaboration.
At a Glance...
The Senior Manager for Agile is an experienced professional to drive our agile transformation within global Kraft Heinz Organization. This strategic role requires a hands-on leader to champion Agile principles, and deliver business value. An Agile Lead will be responsible for Scaling Agile, fostering cross-functional collaboration, enhancing productivity and developing Agile capabilities across teams in different functions.
What's on the menu?
Programs and initiatives for Finance & RGM
• Assess, develop and implement Agile transformation programs aligned with business challenges and objectives.
• Define and adapt agile processes and frameworks to be implemented in each initiative, ensuring alignment with Global Agile Playbook.
• Kick off new workstreams and install capabilities for PODs.
• Measure business impact/value delivery of the implementation.
• Facilitate ceremonies for portfolio review and cross function alignment.
• Manage Agile metrics for PODs (e.g., velocity, lead time, cycle time), building action plans to improve delivery flow and productivity.
• Facilitate dependency and risk management and remove impediments for the program (scale impediments if needed).
Elevating ways of working for Finance
• Coach and mentor Agile teams, promoting self-organization and continuous improvement in Agile Maturity and agile mindsets & practices (design thinking, scrum, kanban).
• Foster cross-functional collaboration among team members and stakeholders, resolving conflicts and building team trust.
• Facilitates large group discussions and workshops with senior stakeholders to explore problems and design solutions (eg. Design thinking, ideation, roadmap design)
• Develop and execute agile training programs for senior leadership, stakeholders, product owners and POD members.
• Assess global PODs maturity, design, and deliver an action plan to increase it.
People Management
• Coach and manage internal and external Scrum Masters, accountable for their development, performance and growth within their function.
Recipe for Success - apply now if this sounds like you!
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with Agile and Scrum, with 3+ years in leadership roles
• Proven track record on leading agile/business transformation initiatives and enabling product teams to deliver value beyond tech
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to all functional groups, including both oral and written communication (preparation of concise and effective reports)
• Great stakeholder management, with ability to influence decision making
• Leadership in coordinating the teams and areas involved in the initiatives, influencing the results, and ensuring the adequate flow of information.
• Able to facilitate large workshops with senior stakeholders using various facilitation techniques
• Problem-solving capability
• Business acumen and strategic thinking, with capacity to understand business problem, design solutions and prove business impact
• Effectiveness in developing plans, prioritizing activities, and evaluating implementation to identify possible improvements.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary and international teams.
• Experience with Jira and Miro or other whiteboarding is a must.
• Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSPO, CESP).
• English proficient (written, speaking, reading). Additional languages are a plus.
• Design Thinking Certifications are a plus.
WHY US?
We're accelerating our ambition to become a best-in-class Agile Transformation leader by bridging strategy to live through agile execution. As the guardians of 200 beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally. What we build today helps bring joy to customers, consumers, and communities around the world tomorrow. Ready to build the future of food, now? Have a seat at our table and join our Digital Revolution.
Ready to help future-proof our legacy? Join our table, and Let's Make Life Delicious!
Location(s)
Amsterdam
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
WHO WE ARE
We're one of the world's largest food and beverage companies and a trusted producer of high-quality, great-tasting, and nutritious foods, earning us a spot on 97% of American household tables. As the guardians of our beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally. Today, The Kraft Heinz Company is building a new legacy by investing in a robust Agile@Scale program to revolutionize the food and beverage industry. We are on a journey to create an agile-enterprise - all while honoring a 150-year heritage and a portfolio of 200 iconic brands. At the heart of this journey is our ambition to create an environment where powerful Agile driven solutions augment humans and where small mission-based teams relentlessly pursue tangible solutions for our consumers, customers, and the enterprise. Our ambition is to drive this transformation alongside key business partners to ensure we're removing bureaucracy, helping teams to better prioritize and increase value delivery, re-engineering current inefficient process while installing trust, transparency and seamless collaboration.
At a Glance...
The Senior Manager for Agile is an experienced professional to drive our agile transformation within global Kraft Heinz Organization. This strategic role requires a hands-on leader to champion Agile principles, and deliver business value. An Agile Lead will be responsible for Scaling Agile, fostering cross-functional collaboration, enhancing productivity and developing Agile capabilities across teams in different functions.
What's on the menu?
Programs and initiatives for Finance & RGM
• Assess, develop and implement Agile transformation programs aligned with business challenges and objectives.
• Define and adapt agile processes and frameworks to be implemented in each initiative, ensuring alignment with Global Agile Playbook.
• Kick off new workstreams and install capabilities for PODs.
• Measure business impact/value delivery of the implementation.
• Facilitate ceremonies for portfolio review and cross function alignment.
• Manage Agile metrics for PODs (e.g., velocity, lead time, cycle time), building action plans to improve delivery flow and productivity.
• Facilitate dependency and risk management and remove impediments for the program (scale impediments if needed).
Elevating ways of working for Finance
• Coach and mentor Agile teams, promoting self-organization and continuous improvement in Agile Maturity and agile mindsets & practices (design thinking, scrum, kanban).
• Foster cross-functional collaboration among team members and stakeholders, resolving conflicts and building team trust.
• Facilitates large group discussions and workshops with senior stakeholders to explore problems and design solutions (eg. Design thinking, ideation, roadmap design)
• Develop and execute agile training programs for senior leadership, stakeholders, product owners and POD members.
• Assess global PODs maturity, design, and deliver an action plan to increase it.
People Management
• Coach and manage internal and external Scrum Masters, accountable for their development, performance and growth within their function.
Recipe for Success - apply now if this sounds like you!
• 5+ years of relevant work experience with Agile and Scrum, with 3+ years in leadership roles
• Proven track record on leading agile/business transformation initiatives and enabling product teams to deliver value beyond tech
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and to all functional groups, including both oral and written communication (preparation of concise and effective reports)
• Great stakeholder management, with ability to influence decision making
• Leadership in coordinating the teams and areas involved in the initiatives, influencing the results, and ensuring the adequate flow of information.
• Able to facilitate large workshops with senior stakeholders using various facilitation techniques
• Problem-solving capability
• Business acumen and strategic thinking, with capacity to understand business problem, design solutions and prove business impact
• Effectiveness in developing plans, prioritizing activities, and evaluating implementation to identify possible improvements.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary and international teams.
• Experience with Jira and Miro or other whiteboarding is a must.
• Agile certifications (e.g., CSM, CSPO, CESP).
• English proficient (written, speaking, reading). Additional languages are a plus.
• Design Thinking Certifications are a plus.
WHY US?
We're accelerating our ambition to become a best-in-class Agile Transformation leader by bridging strategy to live through agile execution. As the guardians of 200 beloved brands and the creators of innovative products, we're dedicated To Sustainably Grow by Delighting More Consumers Globally. What we build today helps bring joy to customers, consumers, and communities around the world tomorrow. Ready to build the future of food, now? Have a seat at our table and join our Digital Revolution.
Ready to help future-proof our legacy? Join our table, and Let's Make Life Delicious!
Location(s)
Amsterdam
Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.
Top Skills
Agile
Design Thinking
JIRA
Miro
Scrum
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