Agile Product Coach - Mumbai, India - General Mills

Description

India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Shift Timings: Regular

About General Mills
We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. The awards and recognition we've received showcase our commitment to be a force for good:

• World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022

• America's Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022

• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021

• Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022

• 100 Best Companies, Seramount 2021

• Diversity Best Practices Leading Inclusion Index, Seramount 2021

• Best Companies for Dads, Seramount 2021

• Best Companies for Multicultural Women, Seramount 2021

• Top 10 Companies for Executive Women, Seramount 2021

• Military Friendly Employer Bronze, VIQTORY 2021

• Best Place to Work, Canada, Greater Toronto, 2021

• Top 50 – India's Best Workplaces for Women, 2021

• Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021

• Asia's Best Workplaces, 2021

Hungry for What's Next
We exist to make food the world loves, and it shows. Our passion for people, doing good and creating delicious food has energized us for over 150 years. Breaking away from the pack is how we win, so we need your unique perspectives: your quirks, 'crazy' ideas, rigor and insatiable curiosity to make it happen. We want people who constantly experiment, embracing the new and bold, who keep pushing to turn ideas into reality, no matter how big or small. We've learned becoming the undisputed leader in food means continuously reshaping, reimagining and rebuilding— that only happens when you surround yourself with those who are hungry for what's next.

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General Mills India Centre
General Mills India Center (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The center was established in 2005 and has grown in strength. Today, we are a vibrant and diverse team of over 1500 employees that come together to champion business services for the various global entities of General Mills in the areas of Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Logistics, Finance, IT Development & Technology Consulting, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Sales Capabilities, Research & Development.

Digital and Technology team
Digital and Technology is the largest team in GIC, which focuses on understanding the latest and innovative trends in technology and leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies at General Mills. The team closely collaborates with global business teams to understand business models and assess where technology can leveraged to bring efficiency and disruption. Be it AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain or Enterprise Architecture, GIC Digital and Technology has something for every technology enthusiast who wants to work here. Our MillsWorks initiative is where we bring delivery model to life. Here, business and technology teams work cohesively in pods as ONE team, driven by a singular mission and focused on delivering value for the Company. Our employees, who work on large technology projects of strategic importance, are the Digital Transformation change agents.

Our service partnerships and employee engagement are centered on advancing equity and strengthening communities. We believe in an inclusive culture and trust in the power of people who have a passion for learning and growing with technology. We believe in "Work with Heart". Work with Heart is focused on results, not facetime. If you are passionate about the latest in technology and want to make an impact on the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company, we're waiting for you.

Job Overview
Role: Agile Product Coach
Location: Mumbai
The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to contribute to the Global Digital Transformation initiative at General Mills in capacity of an Agile Coach. This role will report into the Senior D&T Manager, Transformation & Portfolio Management in India and functionally collaborate with global project management office team. It is an Individual contributor role.

In this role, you will join a team as Agile Coach to work on Agile Transformations across the organization in standing up new scaled agile programs and the importance of product mindset. You will also work across diverse roles, lines of business, and at all levels of the organization. You will work with Product Owners, Pods, and Leaders on Product: vision, mission, personas, objectives & key results; Agile: mindset, values, servant leadership, self-organization, and practices.

You have demonstrated excellence in at least one of the following areas: Agile Mindset & Value, Scrum, SAFE, product management, coaching, design thinking, user experience, product design, team building, Lean, customer experience, training, and/or facilitation.
Agile Product Coaches need to sense and respond to group situations, requiring exceptional listening, discernment, experience design, and written and verbal communication skills. Our ideal hire has a diverse and ever-expanding toolkit of methods to get groups to shared understanding, possibly including: Product definition, developing personas, story mapping, product and team chartering, forming working agreements, visualizing work, product definition/discovery, wicked problem solving, appreciative inquiry, innovation games, or others. We welcome a diverse range of professional and educational backgrounds.

Role Responsibilities

• Will develop partnership with Product Owner to define their product, know their users, and prioritize their backlog.

• Serve as embedded coach/leader to Product teams to educate and influence the adoption and scaling of Agile Delivery Model.

• Experience on Product Teams with process, product, or technology/DevOps.

• Maintain strong expertise and knowledge of current and emerging Agile best practices.

Responsibilities
Coach & Train:

• Embed as a coach on one or more Product teams to influence, educate, and coach team members, leaders, and business stakeholders on Agile values, principles, and practices related to process, technology and/or product.

• Develop, implement, and promote Agile best practice standards including the use of metric boards and tools where appropriate.

• Educate and influence leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and SMEs on their role in supporting teams

• Demonstrate good technical understanding of how to build and deliver software solutions

Communicate:

• Provide transparency to stakeholders regarding the progress of adoption of Agile principles and practices

• Document, report and promote quantifiable business benefits resulting from Agile transformation efforts

• Share learnings with other Agile coaches to elevate skills and knowledge of coaching team

Must - have technical skills and experience

• 7-10 years prior experience as an Agile Product Coach or change influencer leading a variety of several change efforts or transformations. Experience in software products/solutions with a broad range of experiences across development, testing, analysis, and operations

• Strong knowledge of various Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, etc)

• Product experience preferred

• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Demonstrated exceptional critical thinking, strategic planning and process management skills

• Strong leader with business acumen and strategic focus

• Strong presentation, facilitation and communication skills

• Strong servant leader able to lead and work with multiple diverse roles and personalities

• Ability to work collaboratively and inspire teams

• Ability to influence and lead change

• Ability to interact with Senior Leadership

Good to have skills

• Experience in consumer food industry considered a plus, especially in Supply Chain or Commercial functions.

• Experience of working with international markets and business partners

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

· Agile Product Coach

· Change Influencer

· Good communication

· Knowledge of various frameworks [Scrum, Kanban, etc]

· Product experience

· Strategic planning

· Process management skills

· Interact with Senior Leadership

Change management

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.