Lead Agile Coach

The Agile Transformation Coach is responsible for leading and championing agility across the organization. In this role, you will assist teams across our businesses in adopting the FBIN Agile mindset, principles, and best practices. Use subject matter expertise and act as a change agent to coach, influence, teach and mentor employees at all levels regarding the ways of working, key behaviors and frameworks that drive success.

Location:  Deerfield, IL, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Agile Transformation Engagements - Achieve stakeholder-defined outcomes by implementing FBIN Agile practices throughout the organization to enhance business unit agility and delivery efficiency.
• Advise Leadership & Stakeholders - Collaborate with product owners, senior management, and executives to define and evolve the Agile transformation roadmap and governance model. This model focuses on business value, driving outcomes, and a faster time to market.
• Coach & Mentor Teams and Coaches - Guide cross‑functional teams, Scrum Masters, and other Agile Transformation Coaches in agile principles, ceremonies, and consistently encourage continuous improvement. Use coaching techniques that increase collaboration, transparency, and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.
• Build Agile Delivery Mindset - Offer strategic guidance on Agile methodologies, effectively facilitating conflict resolution and removing obstacles to expedite delivery and ensure overall team and individual success.
• Design and Facilitate Agile Ceremonies - Develop and facilitate Scrum events, ensuring they are action-oriented, results-driven, and time-bound.
• Promote Open Communication - Facilitate open communication among teams and stakeholders; promote an inclusive, positive environment for strong collaborations and work effectiveness
• Share Best Practices - Partner with other Agile Transformation Coaches to exchange insights, standardize practices, and scale successful approaches across multiple teams and portfolios.
• Measure & Report Progress - Define key performance indicators (KPIs) such as flow efficiency, cycle time, and team health to measure adoption. Guide teams in analyzing these metrics. Conduct Agile maturity assessments and present status and improvement opportunities to leadership.
• Focus on Team Health - Monitor the team's health, ensuring commitments, pace, and quality are on track. Help the team understand how to inspect and adapt as needed.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Agile Coaching Experience - Minimum 5+ years in Agile roles, with at least 3 years leading or managing Agile Coaches/Scrum Masters at an enterprise scale. Demonstrated experience in implementing, coaching, and teaching Agile, including support of Mission/OKR development, prioritization, metrics, and leadership behaviors.
• Deep Expertise in Agile Frameworks - Hands‑on mastery of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, or other scaled Agile frameworks, with demonstrated ability to tailor practices to context and need.
• Leadership & Influencing Skills - Proven aptitude for influencing at all organizational levels, from team members to C‑suite, and driving change without direct authority.
• Communication & Facilitation - Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to facilitate workshops, training sessions, and leadership briefings. Able to communicate thoughts, concepts, practices effectively at all levels, adjusting approach as needed to a target audience.
• Enterprise Transformations - Prior success delivering Agile transformations in large, complex environments (20+ teams)
• Mentoring Coaches - Experience building and scaling an internal Agile coaching community or competency center
• Tooling & Automation - Familiarity with agile project tooling (e.g., Jira) and continuous delivery pipelines to support data‑driven coaching
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration - Demonstrated track record partnering with Product Management, Architecture, QA, and DevOps to remove impediments and foster end‑to‑end agility
• Core Competencies
• Servant Leadership - Prioritizes team needs, empowers self‑organization, and fosters psychological safety
• Systems Thinking - Understands organizational interdependencies and optimizes flow across value streams
• Coaching & Mentoring - Applies adult‑learning principles, powerful questioning, and feedback to accelerate capability development
• Change Management - Skilled in stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and overcoming resistance to change

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Working Environment & Reporting

• Reports to Director of Agile Operations

• Partner closely with Product/Category Management, Program Management, HR Learning & Development, and executive sponsors

• This role is hybrid and requires commuting to work 3 days per week(Tue-Thu)

Company Description:

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too. When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength. Explore life at Fortune Brands here

Additional Information:

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $105,000 USD - $165,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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