Agile Coach

Are you passionate about driving organizational transformation and empowering teams to reach their full potential? Join Kramp, a leader in agricultural parts and digital commerce, in our mission to revolutionize the ag-tech industry.  

We are seeking an Agile Coach to play a pivotal role in supporting the success of Kramp and its product teams.  

Together with a team of 5 Agile coaches you will create the Agile Center of Excellence of Kramp.  

We guide individuals, teams and the product organization to move from a project to product-led way of working. Our goal for the coming period is to grow the agile knowledge and maturity in our 20+ product teams and help establish practices that create transparency across teams and domains. 

To do this you might: 

• Guide changes at the domain level e.g: 

- splitting/merging teams to have a clear product focus  

- steer a domain of several teams in moving from project to product thinking and establish agile practices. 

- kick-start a new cross-functional product team, and help them set the basic agile practices in place . 

• Help a cross functional team leverage the diversity of their skillsets.  

• Support a business domain and their teams to align with the organizational strategy by implementing the OKR framework. 

• Build & deliver learning and training programs that can impact our culture and the growth of our colleagues. 

• Pair with the people managers to grow & coach individuals in their leadership skills. 

• Mentor and coach agile team facilitators. 

• Hands on support for the product owners community in establishing a shared roadmap and a transparent way of engaging with the business. 

Who are you? 

What will help you be successful in this role: 

• Transformation experience: you have been fully or partially in the lead of the process transformation from project-based to a product-oriented model.  

• You have a deep understanding of traditional project management and agile methodologies (Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc), and their application in different settings t, as well as Product Management tools. 

• Influencing without authority - proven experience of leading teams toward continuous improvements, without enforcement, via creating an atmosphere based on trust and inspiration. 

• Clear and concise communication with diverse audiences (from software engineers to executives) - Knowledge and experience in applying different communication styles, proven ability to convey a message to any type of audience. Ability to navigate with diplomatic approach, knowledge of constructive feedback frameworks.  

• Balance co-creation and Leadership – you encourage team involvement while providing clear guidance when needed.  

• Experience in designing and/or leading workshops 

• Navigating complexity (Cynefin Approach) - you excel in bringing structure in a chaotic environment while enabling teams to adapt end respond effectively to uncertainty  

• Proficiency in English is required. Fluency in Dutch is an advantage.  

• Openness to travel to Varsseveld for 2x a week (depending on the teams) 

What does Kramp offer:  

• 25 vacation days and 12 ADV days (based on a full-time contract)  

• Flexible working policy in hours and location  

• Travel- and working from home allowance  

• Profit sharing bonus  

• Budget for training and courses  

• Generous pension plan  

• Hybrid working policy where there is a combination of working from home and working from our two locations; Utrecht (main location) and Varsseveld.  

About Kramp:   

Thanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E-Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues. The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional, and involved. We speak our customers’ language, understand their challenges, and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise “It’s that easy” is embedded in our culture and DNA.    

Kramp’s Tech department discovers and builds e-commerce & data science solutions that are aimed at giving the ag-tech industry a push forward. We are building a multi-tenant microservice platform, serving thousands of customers and generating a turnover of one billion euros per year. The product is stable and allows us to focus our attention on new feature development.  

Kramp ensures a good life/work balance providing freedom in planning your workweek and keeping in mind that building digital products is a team game. Our everyday focus is to provide a healthy and inspirational environment, which enables our teammates to grow and learn day by day.  

 More about Kramp: https://www.careeratkramp.com/nl-nl    

Contact    

Do you like to know more about this vacancy?   

Send an e-mail to julia.bodun@kramp.com 

Utrecht (NL)