Change & Project Management, Senior Management
Agile Chapter lead
Job ID: 010259
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Competitive + Bonus & Benefits
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Agile Chapter Lead (E1)
Shape how agile works in Yorkshire Building Society. This is a strategic leadership role combining agile framework ownership, coaching capability and organisational transformation, with strong executive influence. You’ll define how agile operates in practicebalancing pace, control and outcomes across the enterprise.
About the role
The Chapter Lead Agile is accountable for defining and embedding the enterprise agile operating model, standards and practices, ensuring effective and scalable agile delivery across the organisation.
Own and evolve the enterprise agile framework, playbooks, tooling and delivery patterns, ensuring they are practical, proportionate and aligned to a regulated environment.
Use flow metrics, health indicators and delivery insight to inform prioritisation, remove systemic blockers and improve delivery performance and team effectiveness.
Lead cross-functional alignment between agile delivery, governance, risk and compliance to ensure agile practices integrate effectively with control, audit and regulatory requirements.
About you
You are a senior agile leader with experience shaping agile at enterprise scale, able to balance practical delivery with governance, assurance and organisational constraints.
Significant experience leading agile capability, frameworks and coaching communities across large, complex change environments.
Strong technical capability in agile methods, flow-based metrics, scaled delivery models and embedding agile ways of working within regulated organisations.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders to adopt effective agile behaviours, remove blockers and improve delivery outcomes in complex, multi-team environments.
About our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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Competitive bonus package
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Read more about our commitment to charity and our communitiesSimilar Roles
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Delivery Management Chapter Lead
Job ID: 010255
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Competitive + Bonus & Benefits
Apply now