Job Title: Senior Agile Coach
Location: Barcelona or Madrid, Tres Cantos
Type: Full-time

Work model: remote work setup with occasional visits to the office either in Madrid Tres Cantos or Barcelona (2-3 times per year)
Type of contract: permanent contract of employment

Location

Please note that your designated home office will be in Spain. Therefore, you will be required to work exclusively from within Spain.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Agile Coach to help drive organizational effectiveness, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement across our business.

In this role, you'll work with teams, leaders, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and business stakeholders to enable successful strategy execution through coaching, organizational change, agile adoption, and capability building. You'll play a key role in ensuring that strategic initiatives don't just get delivered—they become embedded into the way we work.

If you're passionate about coaching people, improving organizations, and leveraging AI to enhance delivery and collaboration, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do

Enable high-performing teams

• Coach teams to continuously improve collaboration, delivery effectiveness, and value creation.

• Facilitate agile ceremonies, workshops, retrospectives, planning sessions, and problem-solving activities.

• Help teams improve flow, predictability, and sustainable delivery.

• Support the adoption and long-term embedding of new ways of working.

Drive organizational change

• Support strategic initiatives, governance improvements, and transformation programs.

• Design and facilitate workshops, training, and adoption activities.

• Translate strategic objectives into practical team behaviors and operating practices.

• Ensure organizational improvements are successfully adopted and sustained.
  
  

Partner with stakeholders

• Build strong relationships with Team Leads, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, and business leaders.

• Align priorities across teams, domains, and business units.

• Facilitate collaboration, transparency, and shared ownership across complex initiatives.

• Act as a trusted advisor on organizational effectiveness and delivery excellence.
  
  

Build organizational capability

• Coach Scrum Masters, Team Leads, Project Managers, and delivery teams.

• Design and deliver coaching, mentoring, and learning programs.

• Mentor Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters.

• Contribute to Communities of Practice and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
  
  

Improve delivery and operating models

• Identify systemic impediments, risks, and improvement opportunities.

• Use delivery metrics, flow data, and feedback to drive measurable improvements.

• Contribute to the evolution of delivery practices, governance, and operating models.

• Promote evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement.
  
  

Leverage AI and innovation

• Help teams adopt AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, collaboration, and decision-making.

• Identify opportunities for automation and agentic ways of working.

• Encourage experimentation and continuous learning.

• Stay up to date with emerging industry trends and AI capabilities, translating them into practical business value.
  
  

Must-have requirements

Education & languages:

✅ Bachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent practical experience.

✅English proficiency: B2/C1 (both written and spoken communication).
✅Spanish proficiency: C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication).

Experience & skills:

✅ 5+ years' experience as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Delivery Coach, or similar role in Agile environments.

✅ Proven experience coaching multiple teams and stakeholders in complex, cross-functional organizations.

✅ Bachelor's or Master's degree, or equivalent practical experience.

✅ Strong understanding of Agile principles and their pragmatic application to business needs.

✅ Experience facilitating workshops, training, and organizational change initiatives.

✅ Proven track record of implementing, adopting, and sustaining organizational improvements and transformation initiatives.

✅ Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across all organizational levels.

✅ Ability to advise leaders and teams on ways of working and organizational effectiveness.

✅ Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify dependencies, risks, and root causes.

✅ Experience using delivery data, flow metrics, and organizational insights to drive continuous improvement.

✅ Hands-on experience leveraging AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, decision-making, facilitation, delivery effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

✅ Strong interest in emerging AI and agentic ways of working, translating new capabilities into practical business value.

✅ Experience with digital collaboration, delivery management, analytics, and AI-enabled tools.

✅ Excellent communication, facilitation, coaching, and relationship-building skills.

✅ Proven ability to manage complexity and thrive in changing, ambiguous environments.

✅ Strong conflict resolution, consensus-building, and influencing skills without formal authority.

✅ Experience working across domains and competencies to deliver strategic initiatives and organizational goals.

Nice-to-Have Skills

Advanced Agile certifications (PSM II/III, ICP-ACC, ICP-ENT, or equivalent). Experience working in PMO, transformation, organizational change, or delivery enablement environments.

Experience scaling ways of working across multiple teams, value streams, or business units.

Experience building and facilitating Communities of Practice.

Experience supporting cross-domain and cross-competence initiatives.\

Experience with value stream management, portfolio delivery, or operating model design.

Experience embedding AI-enabled, data-driven, or agentic ways of working into organizational practices.

Analytical, technical, product development, or business transformation background.

Experience mentoring Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, or delivery leaders.

People leadership experience.

❤️About us:

Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company, serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary, and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise, we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization, you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe.

About Sanoma Learning

How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.

Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.

So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?

Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.