Agile Team Coach - Marketing

Job Description

About Constellation Brands 

 If you have taken a moment to toast with a glass of wine, celebrate with a cocktail, or relax with a bottle of beer, chances are that you’ve shared that moment with us. For more than 75 years, we’ve led the beer, wine, and spirits industry by building admired brands that delight our consumers. Our portfolio balances iconic brands, such as Corona and Modelo, with exciting gems, such as Prisoner Wine Company and High West.  

About the Digital Business Acceleration (DBA) Team 

Digital Business Acceleration (DBA) is an agile organization, continuing to push boundaries by transforming our company through use of digital, data science and advanced analytics. As a member of DBA, you will build business-changing digital tools and capabilities. You will be the architect of your career with support and mentorship to thrive. You will have the opportunity to dive headfirst into exciting opportunities that will enable you to learn new things and work on a variety of different projects. We value bold ideas, teamwork, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We like to have fun and truly embody a work hard, play hard mentality.   

About Our Team’s Culture 

Culture is the lime to our Corona and represents who we are. It’s really simple. We follow our 3 C’s – Care, Community, and Curiosity in everything we do. We care about and support one another and the work we do, we fail fast and learn together, and we never stop pushing boundaries and asking questions. 

Community – We fail, discover, and celebrate together.   

Curiosity – We are open minded and continue to test and learn as a team. 

Care – We are genuine in our interactions and take pride in being authentic and supportive teammates. 

Some cool parts of the job! 

• Product Allowance so you can kick back and relax with Constellation’s awesome products. 

• “Quiet Weeks” where there are no meetings scheduled as an opportunity to focus on individual development goals and have some heads-down time. 

• Summer hours where we have half days on Fridays 

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $10,000/year so you can continue feeding your brain 

• $500 towards your home office set up 

• Ongoing learning opportunities, development experiences, and mentorship programs 

• Occasional team building meetups 

• 160 hours of PTO with 13 paid holidays 

• Life/Work Balance? We're all about it. We offer much more than just health care benefits. Our innovative programs and resources are designed to support physical, mental, and emotional well-being for you and your family. 

About You 

We’re not here to put you in a box, but- like our craft cocktails- we have found that a particular blend of attributes and mindsets successfully make up an “outstanding candidate cocktail” Recipe as follows: 

• Equal parts willingness to put ambitious ideas forward and support your teammates pursuing their goals 
• Strong pour of risk-taking, start-up mentality with a dash of sensitivity to navigating an enterprise size company 
• 2 ounces High West Bourbon (optional)  
• Garnish with a passion to develop yourself and those you work with   

About the Position 

An ideal candidate brings strong expertise in Agile facilitation, and professional Agile coaching, to provide hands-on mentoring to Agile teams, SMEs across teams, and Product Owners towards the overall goal of organizational Agile transformation. A DBA Agile Team coach is an expert in Lean and Agile practices relevant to the Marketing domain in Beverages / Retail / Consumer Goods industries. She / he is savvy in multiple Agile / Lean frameworks / methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe and Nexus. Spotify etc. Agile tools such as Jira to promote Agile adoption. A DBA Agile Team Coach is no stranger to Agile tools such as Jira, Aha, Miro, Asana etc. and promotes their adoption at the grass root level to help the cause of continuous visibility of progress to enable continuous alignment, and timely decisions at various levels.  A DBA Agile Team Coach is familiar with the typical flow of Data Science, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics work to help facilitate team solutioning.

Responsibilities  

• Coaches Team members, Product Owners, SMEs in 2 to 3 DBA Pods concurrently on using Agile methods 

• Facilitate Agile events for 2 to 3 DBA Pods and promote their mutual alignment 

• Contribute to DBA Agile Chapter’s efforts for Enterprise Agile transformation  

• Assess individual Pod needs and implement best Agile practices from Iterative-Incremental methods that are based on Agile principles (e.g., from Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, SAFe, LESS, DAD, Nexus, Spotify, Prototyping etc.) 

• Assess Agile Pod maturity and create action plans to improve maturity 

• Work with the Agile Domain Coaches to promote self-organization and team accountability 

• Work with the Agile Chapter leaders to implement the Agile Strategy for DBA 

• Identify impediments to successful Agile transformation and share with the relevant leadership team members 

• Promote and improve team level tool adoption, automation, and consistent usage 

• Provide support for pods to mutually align and work effectively with shared services and teams who may not be using Agile ways of working 

• Find continuous improvement opportunities in DBA pods to start highlighting quick wins and successes towards the success of the larger strategy  

• Coach, refresh Agile scrum practices (roles, process, artifacts) as needed among pods 

• Contribute to defining and refining DBA processes and best practices in support of Agile transformation 

• Travel 25% 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree required  
• Certified Scrum Master or other professional Certifications from Scrum Alliance or Scrum.org, Certified SAFe Agilist, or other relevant / equivalent Agile certifications required 
• 4+ years of experience with Coaching teams on Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, SAFe, LESS, DAD, Nexus. Spotify etc. 
• Experience working with new Agile teams and transformations 

Domain Experience:  

• Marketing knowledge/experience specific to in Beverages / Retail / Consumer Goods industries preferred 

• Working understanding of technical terminology in order to speak conversationally with data scientists/engineers preferred 

• Working understanding of Marketing terminology in order to speak conversantly about various business process stages (e.g. stages of Market campaigns, Cohorts etc.) preferred 

• Experience working outside of software development, with Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence agile teams, focusing on the application of data collection & research to useful and actionable insides insights preferred 

• Familiarity with the CRISP-DM (or similar) process to be able to understand the typical flow of Data Science work and help to facilitate team solutioning or decision making along the way preferred 

• Familiarity with Business Intelligence applications such as Tableau, Power BI, cloud database technologies such as Snowflake

Agile Experience:  

• Must have solid background and expertise utilizing various Agile frameworks and models (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, SAFe, LESS, DAD, Nexus, Spotify) in various domains including non- software development teams 

• Must have excellent communication, presentation, relationship building, collaboration and conflict resolution skills 

• Expertise coaching Agile roles in Business, IT, Agile teams (Co-located or remote) to achieve their goals and deliver value to their customers 

• Experience in using Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Jira Advanced Roadmap, Aha, Miro, Asana, to promote transparency, data to aid Agile adoption 

Individual Skills:  

• Conduct basic & fundamental Agile trainings 

• Highly skilled in various Agile facilitation methods and be able to influence without authority 

• Work closely with Agile Chapter on strategic and tactical priorities, lessons learned from supported pods, and overall Agile transformation 

• Skilled in User Story writing and various Product management practices  

• Mindset & Behaviors:  

• Enthusiastic and maintains a positive, high-energy attitude  

• Effectively communicate, possess great listening skills, asks thoughtful questions, and gives meaningful, fact-based feedback  

• Continually grows one's craft learning new Tools, Practices and Techniques  

• Finds creative ways to help pods and DBA grow and mature in their Agile journey  

• Observes the team to understand and remove impediments that keep them from operating effectively as an Agile team 

• Embrace servant-leadership and role models the behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with Agile methods 

• Willing to meet the teams and roles where they are and provide hands-on support as needed to take their DBA Agile journey 

• Develop and grow mutually beneficial business relationship with relevant pod stakeholders to support Agile Transformation 

Don’t meet every requirement but still thinking about it? Take a shot! At Constellation Brands, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where differences are valued and celebrated. People of all races, backgrounds, all genders identities, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQ+ are encouraged to apply. Excited about this role, but your qualifications are not perfectly aligned? We hope you will apply anyway- if it’s not this role, it could be the next one! 

Location

Virtual - US

Additional Locations

Job Type

Full time

Job Area

Information Technology

The salary range for this role is:

$98,000.00 - $153,200.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Equal Opportunity

Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).