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Job Summary

The Associate Business Agility Lead is critical in driving the adoption and scaling of agility across the organisation. This role champions a client-centric, product-thinking mindset that focuses on delivering measurable business outcomes. Drawing on a solid foundation in agile values, principles, and practices, the individual supports and guides the implementation of agility at both the team and organisational levels.

This role would require the individual to influence the assigned unit's delivery practices, processes, tools, strategy and work in close partnership with leadership to identify and address challenges, engage cross-functional teams, and enable productivity through outcome-driven metrics. This role builds trusted relationships, proactive communications and drives impact across business areas through the successful execution of defined OKRs aligned to FactSet’s strategic goals.

The ideal candidate brings strong communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating across leadership levels and navigating complex stakeholder environments. A background in delivering successful outcomes across multiple cross-functional initiatives is essential, along with applying industry best practices in both project management and agile delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensure Agile teams are practicing the core agile values of human interaction, delivering working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change in the following ways:

• Engages any appropriate cross-functional contributors from initiation to conclusion to design solutions and ensure they remain actively engaged in understanding the goals and objectives

• Facilitates productivity, effectiveness and measurements for success.

• Mentor teams toward becoming increasingly self-managed and cross-functional, with fewer dependencies. 

• Foster a team environment which encourages team members to both seek help from within the team and to lean in to help the team achieve sprint/iteration goals

• Partner with Product Owners to effectively manage the backlog, incorporate customer feedback, and apply user story writing best practices.

• Support agile transformation efforts by helping teams and leadership navigate change, adopt new ways of working, and continuously improve delivery outcomes.

• Ensure smooth execution of initiatives/projects

• Develop and manage end-to-end delivery plans for strategic initiatives, incorporating agile planning techniques (e.g., roadmaps, release planning) and traditional project tools, e.g., milestones, timelines, RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies).

• Proactively identify, assess and report on program/project performance using a combination of agile metrics (velocity, throughput, lead time) and traditional KPIs ( schedule, risk), ensuring transparency and timely escalation of issues.

• Develop trusted relationships with key business stakeholders and partners to effectively deliver on defined outcomes. 

• Scope the identified problems and issues and collaborate to build actionable opportunities.

• Proactively engage team leadership and communicate progress, issues and solutions. Impact to various areas of business based on the execution of defined OKRs helped to deliver.

• Executes on communications for advancing discoverability of agility programs, offerings, messaging, and change management. Maintains up-to-date awareness of current Agility best practices and methodologies through industry thought leaders, publications, conferences or other useful channels.   

Job Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree

• 6 - 8 years relevant experience, preferably working within product/technology teams and with agile teams 

• Ability to gain consensus on cross-functional  teams, drawing on multiple points of view 

• Demonstrates a client/user-focused approach with the ability to balance diverse groups, roles, and projects 

• Ability to collaborate productively and problem-solve effectively 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively communicate in meetings, and has clear, concise written communication skills.

• Practical experience with various software development methodologies 

• Exceptional organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills

• Mastery with one or more Agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, Kanban and familiarity with agility at scale