Lead EDABI Operations Consultant
Target - Minneapolis, Minnesota
EDABI Operations Consultant
Summary:
Play a key role as an EDABI Agile Operations Consultant to help Target Enterprise Data, Analytics and BI teams and organization improve delivery, increase operational efficiency and drive improved outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Improve delivery as an embedded consultant
· Embed with 1 to 3 teams for 3-6 month periods to drive implementation of agile practices and routines and help teams develop self-organizing habits
· Play various roles as needed including providing individual contributions in addition to consulting
· Examples include but are not limited to:
- Define clear Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and measurements of success to enable clarity and focus
- Facilitate agile ceremonies and product discovery activities
- Identify and implement tools and practices to help teams increase focus on customer
- Plan and schedule work and track progress and outcomes using agile project management tools
- Communicate priorities and timelines to customers and stakeholders
- Change management and customer education programs
Drive improved outcomes through agile coaching and consulting
· Serve as an expert on agile and product delivery practices and methods
· Consult with teams to define Objectives and Key Results and communicate progress
· Benchmark industry and leverage research/intelligence to build strategies for tracking and measuring progress
· Identify roadblocks and impediments and generate recommendations to improve effective team delivery
· Partner across the enterprise to enable consistency and continuous improvement
Drive operational efficiencies
· Define, implement and support lightweight processes and best practices that enable consistency when appropriate
· Utilize facilitation to help teams work through change quickly and develop routines
· Research industry trends to find and implement innovative and effective tools for distributed teams
Skills:
· Team-orientated and passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
· Quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust and respect with peers, team members and leaders
· Drive work independently and play different roles on ambiguous projects
· Strong sense of ownership, accountability and learning lessons from failures
· Synthesize complex problems and clearly communicate critical issues and actionable opportunities
· Strong critical thinking and ability to leverage research to build strategies
· Experience with agile project management and leading agile teams in some agile structure
Desired Background:
· Bachelor degree
· 10 years work experience
· Prior experience in business intelligence, technology, continuous improvement or operational role highly desirable
· 5 years of managing teams or large, cross functional projects with a strong track record of delivery
· Experience with Lean, Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
Posted: 30+ days ago
