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Elsevier is hiring a Manager of Agile Transformation to lead and scale Agile maturity across a 500-person technology organization. The role involves designing transformation strategies, coaching teams and leaders, and fostering a culture of agility to improve delivery flow and outcomes across multiple teams and leadership levels.

Highlights

Lead and implement scalable Agile transformation strategies across teams and functions.
Provide hands-on coaching to delivery teams, product managers, and technical leaders.
Drive culture change emphasizing agility, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
Mentor Delivery Managers to enhance their agile leadership skills.
Promote practical, outcome-focused Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe.
Collaborate on defining and utilizing agile metrics to inform decision-making.
Require experience leading Agile transformations in medium to large technology organizations.
Deep knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe frameworks with a flexible approach.
Strong facilitation, communication, and influencing abilities needed.
Work across multiple departments including Delivery, Product, Engineering, and Executive leadership.

Manager of Agile Transformation Full Description

Manager of Agile Transformation

Pennsylvania

Virginia

Delaware

Washington DC

Maine

Full time

Manager Agile Transformation

Are you seeking an Agile Transformation role to lead, drive and scale Agile maturity?

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic, experienced, and hands-on Agile Transformation Lead to spearhead the uplift of Agile maturity across our 500-person technology organization. This is a highly influential role that works horizontally across multiple delivery teams, product domains, and leadership layers, supporting our Delivery Managers, Product Managers, Engineers, and Executives to adopt better practices that increase flow, alignment, and outcomes.

About the team, as part of the Technology Optimization team, you and your team members will play a critical role in enhancing delivery effectiveness, embedding agile ways of working, and coaching teams and leaders to embrace lean, adaptive, and value-driven practices

Key Responsibilities

Leading Agile Transformation Strategy: Design and implement a scalable transformation roadmap to increase agile maturity across teams, programs, and functions.
Coaching at Multiple Levels: Provide hands-on coaching to delivery teams, product managers, and tech leaders, from team-level rituals to portfolio governance.
Driving Culture Change: Influence mindset shifts beyond frameworks; foster agility, adaptability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Mentoring Delivery Managers: Support the uplift of Delivery Managers into agile leaders, enabling them to champion iterative delivery, prioritization, and servant leadership.
Improving Practices & Flow: Help teams adopt practical, outcome-focused methods (e.g., Scrum, SAFe, or hybrid models tailored to context).
Enabling Measurement & Visibility: Collaborate on defining and using agile metrics to drive insights and decisions.

Required Experience

Proven track record leading agile transformations in medium to large-scale technology organizations.
Deep knowledge of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) with a pragmatic, flexible mindset.
Demonstrated ability to coach teams and leaders at all levels, especially Delivery Managers and Product Managers.
Strong understanding of agile metrics, value stream thinking, and continuous delivery principles.
Excellent facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.

Work in a way that works for you.

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
Wellbeing programs
Life assurance
Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
Long service awards
Save As You Earn share option scheme
Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
Access to extensive learning and development resource
Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals’ advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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