Agile Coach
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 01 December 2025
Requisition ID: 400032559
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
In Sainsbury’s Tech, we power the UK’s number 1 multi-channel, multi-brand retailer. Our product teams are made up of inspired and multidiscipline individuals who are empowered to solve hard problems in ways our customers love and serve the needs of our business.
As an Agile Coach you’ll play a key role across Sainsbury’s Tech, working to drive the development of agility through the application of technical, business and transformation mastery.
The role enables the organisation to understand it’s ongoing evolution, developing insight and understanding around improvement opportunities and works to shape coaching focus accordingly.
The Agile Coach is an agile practitioner who can lead by example and demonstrate effective coaching in practice.
More about the role:
· Embed agile principles and practices across Sainsbury’s Tech, partnering with leadership, teams, and stakeholders to enable early and continuous delivery of customer value.
· Facilitate continuous improvement in ways of working across Sainsbury’s Tech through catalysing effective and sustainable change.
· Showcase emerging agile tools and techniques, developing awareness and understanding to support effective adoption in practice.
· Work with leadership, teams and stakeholders to develop shared awareness of improvement opportunities across Sainsbury’s Tech. Developing insights and data to inform regular cycles of reflection and improvement.
· Grow an effective agile community of practice, building excellence around the active sharing of knowledge, insights and experiences across the breadth of the organisation.
· Develop coaching strategy, focus and priorities aligning to the wider Sainsbury’s Tech vision and strategy.
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More about you:
· Knowledge and significant experience of applying a range of Agile/Lean/DevOps principles and practices.
· Understanding of technical and business agility practices, and their role in enabling the early and continuous realisation of value.
· Understanding of agile software development practices.
· Experience in enabling transformation and improvement across a range of teams.
· Exceptionally developed coaching, mentoring, teaching and facilitation skills with teams and individuals.
· Comfortable working with ambiguity and experience of working in matrix structures.
· Innovative and focused on continuous improvement, comfortable challenging the status quo and enabling change.
· Able to motivate and lead others as a coach.
· Evidence of coaching skills at a senior level.
Essential Criteria
· Deep understanding of Agile/Lean/DevOps principles and practices.
· Proven experience coaching teams and leaders at different levels of agile maturity.
· Strong facilitation and communication skills.
· Demonstrated ability to influence organisational change.
As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:
· Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
· Holiday allowance
· Bonus scheme
· Pension plan
· Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals. #DTD
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
