Job Title:  Value Orchestrator

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the preeminent wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

The Value Orchestrator is a crucial role in leading ways of working and the delivery of value for SGWS. Value Orchestration roles work closely with leaders in Product design, ETP, and Product Leaders to maximize the value we create for users and the enterprise. They are responsible for educating, coaching, and supporting teams in adopting agile principles and practices in support of the organization's digital acceleration efforts. Value Orchestrators play a critical role in fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and adaptability to enhance SGWS’s ability to deliver impact to our business. Align with business and technology partners to understand business and technology needs, ensuring product roadmaps and backlogs align with stakeholder outcomes. 

As a Value Orchestrator you will be responsible for ensuring our processes and cadences are understood and enacted. Value Orchestrators do this by ensuring that the team and organization understand and apply the values of the Agile Manifesto and the twelve principles therein. You are a servant leader. You help employees and stakeholders understand and enact empirical product development. You are a facilitator, trainer, coach, and mentor for the team, organization, and enterprise. You are not defined or bound by your title, but instead focus on delivering value. You may at times fill various roles based on organizational needs and your own abilities, including: Scrum Master, Delivery Manager, Team Coach, and Enterprise Coach. You seek to continuously improve your own skills, the effectiveness of your team, and the organization’s understanding of Agile and Product development. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Visualize and optimize the flow of value for the groups you support (e.g. Portfolios, products, teams…)
• Work with Service/Product Owners to develop release plans, roadmaps, and force ranked backlogs.
• Work with the product team to establish effective estimation practices.
• Lead the adoption of Agile and Product practices and ensure teams understand and apply those practices to how they work.
• Educate and coach teams and partners to adopt Agile ways of working.
• Provide guidance and training to product teams on Agile methodologies and supporting Product delivery practices.
• Design new methods for enhancing organizational agility.
• Assess Agile maturity levels of teams and individuals to identify and address gaps.
• Monitor and address potential blockers to Agile adoption and effectiveness.
• Align initiatives with organizational goals, fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Minimum Qualifications

• 1-3 years of experience working in a Digital organization leveraging agile practices as a scrum master or agile project/delivery manager
• Hands-on experience leading agile ceremonies, supporting scrum and/or kanban ways of working
• Familiarity with product discovery practices and OKRs (objectives and key results)
• Capable of supporting 1-3 teams, low level of complexity, requires foundational Agile and delivery experience, familiarity with Product and LeSS preferred (similar to Scrum Master or Delivery manager)
• Growth Mindset
• Experience working in Digital product at large companies
• Agile Coaching or related Agile delivery experience

Note: Candidates with various levels of experience and seniority are welcome to apply. This role is a hybrid of Agile Coaching, Scrum Master, and Delivery Manager.  Positions will be matched based on the candidate's experience, skills, and aptitude.

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

If you have any questions or concerns about whether this posting complies/adheres with local pay transparency requirements, please contact the SGWS talent acquisition team at NationalTA@sgws.com