Senior Agile Coach / Cross-Border Product Transformation Lead
Thryve
Ansprechpartner: Jacob Masterton-Pipet
karlsruhe, Deutschland
Beschreibung
The client: a major German energy company's Procurement function is building a new international team structure spanning Germany and a newly-established office in Europe. You'll act as a senior transformation partner working directly alongside two key internal stakeholders, a Germany-based lead and the new European team lead to design and install a working cross-border delivery model.
Contract details: 30–40 hours/week, freelance, likely starting December (earlier preferred). 80% remote; roughly one week per month on-site in other European country initially, ramping down over time, plus a minimum of one to two guaranteed on-site days per month in Germany.
What you'll do:
- Act as a senior sparring partner to internal leadership, challenging existing thinking on how to run a two-country delivery model and helping install something genuinely workable. not just facilitating what's already decided
- Help reset a team's ways of working so it reliably delivers, working alongside a newly-forming European team (15+ people, split between product shaping and cross-disciplinary data management capability)
- Moderate between customer/product-facing demands and the IT/delivery side, helping reshape product direction as customer expectations evolve
- Proactively steer direction with confidence - the existing team has deep domain expertise (roughly 80% of the topic is already covered internally) but needs someone to actively lead rather than wait for ideas to emerge organically
What we're looking for:
- 8+ years in agile coaching, transformation or a closely related discipline - flexible for candidates with 5+ years who clearly demonstrate strong judgement and direction
- Genuine experience with cross-border or international transformation - not just multi-site delivery, but actually helping teams in different countries work as one
- Comfortable operating at a senior, stakeholder-facing level - this is a leadership-adjacent role, effectively forming a three-person transformation team alongside two existing internal leads
- C1 German and C1 English required
- Confident, proactive leadership style, able to challenge and steer rather than simply support