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5years
Remote
65 - 85
1 Vacancy
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Title: AGILE CONSULTANT
Location: City of London (hybrid)
Start: 1/1/25
Engagement: Permanent employed
Salary: 65k 85k per year
Background
Lithe Transformation (thinklithe.com) is a boutique agile and digital business transformation consultancy. We are based in the UK but with a reach across Europe and the Middle East/GCC region. We are a company that is scaling growing our permanent headcount from 11 to 22 over the past 12 months. We offer agile and digital transformation support to companies ranging from startups through to multinational multibillion dollar operations. Although we are marketagnostic our largest footprints are in the banking/finance and government sectors. Our model is both working directly with companies on their transformations and also partnering with larger consultancies providing agile expertise for their client engagements.
We also operate a separate recruitment practice Lithe People which offers stateoftheart talent solutions in a number of different markets.
We now have an opportunity to hire an Agile Consultant to support our client engagements. The immediate engagement is to work on a transformation project with one of our main clients a major UK financial institution and household name.
Duties and responsibilities
The purpose of the role is to support our client through its agile transformation.
Working with both Lithe s team of Agile Consultants and our client s internal transformation team
Quickly be respected as a SME by our client s IT teams agile team and middle/senior management
Mentoring client s Scrum Masters and Product Owners
Agile coaching at both team and enterprise level
Stakeholder management
Supporting IT teams in their journey through to agile maturity
Spotting and exploiting opportunities to increase Lithe s footprint within our client(s)
Working with Lithe s team to provide regular feedback to client decisionmakers and stakeholders reporting progress and the benefit of our inputs to date
Taking responsibility for outcomes
The above list notwithstanding the successful candidate may also be required to carry out other tasks associated with a consultant role as required by the company
Required experience qualifications and attitudes
Previous experience of working as a consultant within agile transformation for a reputable management consultancy (2 years)
Minimum 7 years experience working on agile business transformations
Agile coaching experience (minimum 5 years)
Datadriven decisionmaking
Working with transformation and other client stakeholders
Successfully working to strict and tight deadlines to achieve agile maturity
Ability to follow instructions from Transformation Lead while at the same time making constructive suggestions and observations without leading to conflict
Conflict management and resolution
Naturally inquisitive and proactive. Ownership of problems and solutions and the desire to go the extra mile to find those solutions is a key personal attribute
Experience of taking teams from zero to agile maturity
Experience of working with both onsite teams and remote offshore teams
The role is hybrid based out of our client site in the City of London. The usual requirement is 2 days/week onsite however our Agile Consultants need to be flexible and provide any additional onsite support as required by our client(s). Since Lithe is not looking to cover travel expenses on this engagement (or others within the London postcodes) it is expected that the successful applicant will live within a reasonable commute of central London
Interview process
The initial interview will be with our Head of People (or a recruiter in his team). There will then be a meeting with both directors individually and also the Lead Consultant on the engagement. Our client may also wish to speak to the preferred applicant before a decision is made.
**UPDATE: We can also consider a contractor for this role. The maximum rate we could offer for this would be 600 for an INSIDE IR35 contract**
Consultancy
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Advertising Services / Business Consulting and Services / Air / Water and Waste Program Management
Key Skills
- Sales Experience
- Direct Sales
- Hyperion
- Financial Services
- Financial Concepts
- Banking
- Oracle EBS
- Securities Law
- Peoplesoft
- Oracle
- Financial Management
- Workday
