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Senior Manager, Agile Coach - HR Strategic Solutions

Job in Toronto, Ontario, M5A, Canada
Listing for: Scotiabank
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-28
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    IT Consultant, IT Project Manager, Scrum Master
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Is this role right for you?

In this role:
  • You are a hands-on leader with a growth mindset, applying creativity and passion to explore opportunities to elevate our HR agile delivery practices to levels that the industry will want to mimic; while actively supporting delivery to our current commitments.

  • You are an influencer, a forward thinking individual who embraces change, you are curious, flexible and looking for ways to grow and learn yourself while sharing that learning with your colleagues.

  • You are passionate and on any given day you champion and look for avenues to further refine and evolve our Talent Strategy, focused on creating and sustaining delivery capacity with speed and efficiency.

  • Ability to facilitate problem solving sessions that lead to identifying, clarifying issues with clear outlined next steps and key owners for those next steps

  • You have experience working cross functionally and are able to influence and help organize HR and business leaders as well as technical teams across the bank

  • The role requires significant interaction with senior business and HR leadership, consequently effective communications commensurate with the audience and the ability to promote an idea and gain consensus is critical

  • What will you do?

  • Guide and coach a team of HR and business line leaders, to establish an operating cadence and continuously refine delivery across the Talent Strategy portfolio

  • You actively participate and support the portfolio team on operationalizing their cadence.

  • Lead and coach scrum masters and other stakeholders as needed to align on cadence, delivery objectives and to continuously improve their delivery capabilities

  • Coordinate with other portfolio managers, ensuring alignment on cadence and overall delivery across the entire enterprise portfolio

  • Design and refine tracking and monitoring operational reports that highlight progress to the Talent Strategy roadmap, OKR activity and organizational health. These systems enable operational dashboards that are used to report out to the leadership team regularly.

  • Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

  • Diplomatic yet willing to have hard conversations with team members, products owner and delivery partners when there are challenges, issues impeding delivery execution

  • Solid analytical and critical thinking skills with an ability to communicate at levels with all key organizational partners

  • Exceptional working and practical knowledge of delivery frameworks for effective workflow visualization and management (Kanban, Scrum Boards, etc.)

  • Exposure to Agile delivery practices

  • 5+ years of experience leading and managing agile delivery teams

  • 2+ years delivering with variety of Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban

  • Passion for leading and coaching teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality of work

  • Strong relationship- skills, with demonstrated experience with cross-functional teams

  • Agile ‘mindset’ with flexibility to inspect, adapt, pivot t, navigate through varying set of priorities

  • Eager to mentor, coach, teach

  • Exceptional facilitation skills with fact based problem solving skills to solve for high priority issues.

  • Excellent written, verbal, virtual and live communication skills

  • Enthusiastic, thorough and results-oriented; ability to help Team thrive in fast-paced environment

  • Strong customer orientation and focus with the ability to interact with all levels of organization

  • What's in it for you?

  • We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!

  • Access to thousands of online and in person courses so you can brush up on skills or learn new ones

  • Career progression opportunities. We hire you for your talent and not just for the job. We want to see you succeed not just in your role but in your career as a whole

  • We offer a competitive total rewards package that includes a base salary, a performance bonus, company matching programs (on pension & profit sharing), vacation, personal & sick days, paternity/maternity leave, medical, vision and dental benefits and much more

  • Position Requirements
    10+ Years work experience
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