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 tech teams. 

What is your role?

As an Agile Coach, you will play a critical role in supporting the success of Kramp and its product teams. With your passion for leading change and focus on delivering results you make sure the teams are performing at their best and establish a more mature agile way of working. Together with other agile coaches you are guiding product teams in their agile journey and enable cross-team collaboration.  

Things that will keep you busy if you join our team as an Agile Coach: 

• Team Growth and Maturity: Act as a trusted advisor and coach for teams transitioning to agile methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and agility. You lead by example and get your hands dirty, stepping into the scrum master role and setting the basis of team maturity for young teams.  

• You lead the team health conversations and connect with managers to build an environment where teams can take ownership of their own challenges and grow. 

• Framework Implementation: Provide guidance on implementing agile frameworks across different departments, including Development, Product Management, Marketing, and Operations. 

• Training and Workshops: Conduct training sessions and workshops to educate team members and stakeholders on agile principles, practices, roles, ceremonies, and artifacts. 

• Goal and Planning: Facilitate the imlementation of the OKR framework for the product teams.  

• Scrum Master Support: our scrum masters/team facilitators are team members that take in role part time. You mentor, guide and coach team members in growing their agile mastery and facilitation skills to enable self-organizing teams.   

• Issue Resolution: Identify impediments that hinder team productivity or limit agility; work closely with stakeholders to resolve issues promptly while promoting self-management among teams. 

• Transparency Promotion: Promote transparency by facilitating information sharing across various levels of the organization through tools like visual management boards or digital dashboards. 

• Collaboration: Work cohesively with other Agile coaches and scrum masters in the organization for a consistent agile way of working. 

Who are you?

What will help you be successful in this role: 

• Successful record as an Agile Coach or Senior Scrum Manager in a tech environment or understanding of the software development lifecycle. 

• Experience working with teams new to Agile development or coming from various backgrounds. 

• Experience coaching diverse roles (software engineers, product owners, managers) in shifting from a project to a product way of working. 

• In-depth knowledge of various Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP). 

• Data-driven mindset with a focus on transforming the organization from a budget-driven to a value-driven approach. 

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

• Openness to travel to Varsseveld for 2x a week, as this role is mainly focused on teams working in Varsseveld. 

• 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.