Agile Coach

DescriptionKforce has a client that is seeking an Agile Coach in Minneapolis, MN.Role Summary:The Agile Coach serves as a delivery leader responsible for driving planning, execution, and operational excellence across one or more CLM initiative/line-of-business product teams. This role partners closely with Product Management, Engineering, Design, Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure teams deliver commitments predictably, manage dependencies effectively, and continuously improve delivery outcomes.The Agile Coach is accountable for facilitating quarterly and sprint planning processes, monitoring execution against plans, proactively managing risks and dependencies, ensuring adherence to delivery standards and governance requirements, and establishing consistent ways of working across teams. The role combines delivery management, cross-functional coordination, operational rigor, and continuous improvement to help teams deliver customer and business value.Essential Functions:Delivery Planning & Execution:* Lead quarterly planning, release planning, and sprint planning activities across assigned teams* Drive alignment between strategy, roadmap, team capacity, and execution plans* Monitor progress against commitments and proactively identify delivery risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies* Facilitate timely decision-making and escalation to ensure delivery objectives are achieved* Establish and maintain delivery transparency through reporting, metrics, forecasts, and stakeholder communications* Coordinate releases and major milestones across multiple teams, applications, and business initiativesDependency & Cross-Team Coordination:* Own dependency management processes across product, engineering, operations, vendor, and business teams* Identify upstream and downstream impacts of planned work and coordinate resolution of delivery constraints* Facilitate cross-team planning forums, Scrum of Scrums, and dependency reviewsRequirements* To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed* Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plusJob TypeContractCompensation74 - $78