Agile Team Coach

At the client, the role of Agile Team Coach was established as part of the agile transformation process "Symphony". The Agile Team Coach is positioned alongside the Product Owner and the Principal Engineer in product leadership. The Agile Team Coach is responsible for improving the teams' delivery capability by strategically adopting agile methods and fostering an agile mindset. The team coach ensures that the product team can deliver and perform in a scaled environment. In addition, the Agile Team Coach works closely with and coaches the PO, advises and trains the product team, and supports cross-organization at all levels (for example, in stage planning). Implement metrics and OKRs, coach leadership and management, agile mindset, organization, communication.

• Ensure and improve the team's delivery capability and performance
• Establish and further develop the agile development process, foster innovation, and optimize processes
• Ensure the team's forecasting ability using appropriate tools and methods
• Identify impediments, make them transparent within the team, and drive their removal
• Organize and facilitate workshops and events
• Select, align, monitor, analyze, and report on agreed OKRs and KPIs
• Establish a healthy team culture
• Anchor agile values in the team
• Promote team development and knowledge sharing, and strengthen self-organization
• Establish and strengthen an open and constructive feedback culture
• Build communication bridges between the team, other departments, and external roles
• Support scaling and coordination of product development
• Provide methodological support for the PO and the team
• Support maintenance and communication of product strategy, backlogs, and roadmaps

• Agile project management, Scrum Master, agile coaching, implementation/scaling of agile frameworks and hybrid models
• Consulting and coaching agile transformation for companies and/or departments (methods, concepts, tools, roll-out)
• Coaching, advising, and training teams on following Scrum rules, principles, and processes, as well as agile principles, transparency, and maintaining up-to-date artifacts
• Experience guiding more than three teams, removing obstacles, facilitating events, method expertise
• Coaching and advising Product Owners on product backlog management and communication with the team(s)
• Collaborating with other Scrum Masters to improve Scrum effectiveness and productivity
• Sales management and business development
• Develop, optimize, and implement sales concepts in close cooperation with management
• Manage and develop existing customer relationships and acquire new national and international clients
• Prepare proposals, contracts, and price calculations, and support contract negotiations with management
• Design the future sales department structure and key account organization, introduce sales tools, strategy development and planning
• Establish the Automotive Center of Competence for market diversification and create formats to drive customer acquisition

• Full responsibility for the production and spare parts market
• Business setup and business development
• Opening new markets and expanding the product portfolio
• Leading large projects and production relocations, including all relevant quality aspects
• Designing and building key account organization, strategy development, planning, control, and company professionalization, e.g. by developing collaboration models and pricing policies
• Defining, aligning, organizing, structuring, and optimizing the sales and project management functions
• Group-wide coordination, management, and optimization of offers, processes, and calculations
• Market studies, contract negotiation, and review
• Support for VDA 6.1:2016 and DIN EN ISO 9001:2015 certification
• Cost benchmarking, selection and optimization of trade shows, presentations/flyers/customer catalogs

due to the passing of my father and organizing his estate

• Strategy planning and management, business setup and business development, project sales, sales and project controlling
• Leading projects for the development and integration of components and systems
• Member of the Energy working group with ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe, collaborating on development, use and certification of steels for offshore applications
• Supporting management with strategy, structural adjustments and process implementations
• Introducing and coordinating cross-site sales tools, processes and measures
• Monitoring and analyzing the market and competition, negotiating framework and project contracts as well as tenders

• Leading the calculation departments at the technical offices in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart; interim management of development projects (CAx)
• Annual department planning, business assessment, and project organization
• Supported the company's ISO 9001 certification
• Business start-up and development, project sales, new client acquisition, business development, existing client sales, and setting up technical offices in Stuttgart and Frankfurt
• Project management, project controlling (CAx), monitoring quality, deadlines, and costs
• Concept analysis and evaluation, performing calculations and presenting to the client, ensuring result quality and considering all cost aspects