Agile Coach

At ING, we believe all sustainable progress is driven by people with the imagination and determination to improve their future and the futures of those around them. We empower people and organizations to realize their own vision for a better future. Our purpose therefore is: Empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business.

But that is not where we stop. Being innovative and being agile are key elements for our future success and we expect you to be a driving force in this development. To realize our future vision of a united ING that offers single empowering experience across the globe, we must unite our way of working.
Therefore we are looking for a Way of Working Coach who can further shape our Integrated Way of Working (iWoW) based on Continues Improvements, Operational Management and Agile practices, and our culture within ING HUBs Slovakia, in a responsible, inspiring and consistent way.

Your role as Way of Working Coach

You are passionate for communication, mentoring, coaching and group dynamics, in which you further shape our iWoW and culture across our ING HUBs Slovakia.

You have great empathy, stimulate and motivate people in a positive way. You build trust, dare to point out the bottlenecks and help people to get the best out of themselves. You coach on behavior our Leadership team, to support them on their Servant Leadership journey, and together with your iWoW Team, you support people and teams, ensuring a permanent behavioral change. You are convincing in your performance and creative in your solutions. With your effort and integrity, you are a trusted advisor and conversation partner.

Your key responsibilities

• You build and develop High Performing Teams
• You mentor and coach the Super(circles)/Teams and their team members to work accordingly to our agile values, principles and methodology.
• You enable them to facilitate, and run, rituals (reviews, retrospectives, spring planning, stand-up meetings).
• In addition, you coach the management team on Servant Leadership, stimulating a culture of continuous improvement and innovations throughout the organization.
• You are a strong communicator on different levels of skills and seniority, and you can manage different stakeholders from different seniority (team members of 1st & 2nd line managers)
• You have a very strong Agile Mindset
• You have the passion to coach others and you are a true source of inspiration and motivation
• You encourage team members to provide feedback by enhancing a safe atmosphere
• You take the environment into account and adjust your approach accordingly to the situation
• You are self-steering, proactive, organized and have the ability to determine independently what needs to be done (Project Management)
• You have an intrinsic positive mindset with a natural need to see solutions instead of problems
• You have an attitude to continuously improve the way of working and you stimulate cross-border interaction and alignment between colleagues across the HUBs
• You are recognized as a sounding partner as a result of having created yourself impact in the business and strong content plus strategy knowledge
• You have experience with cross border teams, ideally teams who are partly located offshore

• Master degree.
• Minimum of 5-10 years of industry or functional domain experience
• A personality and the capabilities to optimally function within an Agile environment.
• Experience in guiding and realizing change.
• Ability to coach and support business professionals.
• Experience in multinational corporations and affinity with Banking is a plus.
• Excellent level of English.