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Job Title: Business Agility Lead
Location: Chester /Halifax
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite
Contract Length: 3 months
Pay rate: £400 - £550 pwd via Umbrella
Hours: Full Time
About the Opportunity
We're seeking an experienced Business Agility Lead to partner with cross-functional Labs, driving effectiveness, efficiency and predictability across teams. In this role you'll support the transition to a data-led approach, helping teams deliver value faster, improve flow of work, and embed sustainable agile practices.
You'll work directly with Lab Leaders to coach, guide, and uplift capability-ensuring teams build the tools and maturity needed to self-manage over time. This position plays a key part in refining agile delivery, improving data quality, and supporting teams to use metrics and insights to make informed decisions.
What You'll Be Doing
Supporting agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks) with coaching and continuous improvement
Using real-time data to enhance speed-to-market, efficiency and predictability
Ensuring high-quality use of JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
Helping to establish new agile teams and uplift agile ways of working
Coaching teams on problem-solving approaches such as process mapping, value hypothesis development and brainstorming
Working with teams across varying levels of agile maturity-from early adopters to highly developed practicesWhat You'll Need
Proven experience as an Agile Coach or Scrum Master (relevant certifications preferred)
Strong understanding of Agile delivery metrics and evidence-based decision making
Experience influencing senior leadership in agile ways of working
Hands-on experience using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
Ability to drive data quality and coach teams in tooling and workflow discipline
Strong problem-solving mindset, using data and insights to support performanceDesirable
Agile certifications (e.g., PSM I, PSM II, PK1 or similar)If this sounds like your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.
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