Iteration Manager

**READY FOR ANYTHING**

At IAG, we live and work by our purpose to make your world a safer place. We are motivated by a unique culture that celebrates honesty, creativity, empathy, equity and collaboration. We call it the IAG way, and it means we all share a 'ready for anything' mindset that sets the tone for positive actions and positive outcomes. We put heart into everything we do which guides us to create amazing things for our customers, our people and our communities.

As the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand, we own some of the region's most trusted brands, including NRMA Insurance, CGU, SGIO, SGIC and WFI. We are ready for anything.

**Our Team**

We're people powered by heart

We're a diverse culture connected by heart. You'll feel it, and you'll see it come to life in our work. It's the driving force behind why we do what we do. Together, we're building on a performance culture, powered by care and commitment to our customers and community to change tomorrow.

As we work our way through our transformational journey our objective is to support our people and business to provide great customer experiences and build a modular, digitised insurance business. With the ongoing growth our business is experiencing, we need only but the best talent to help us deliver on our business goals. As such, we are looking for experienced Iteration Managers who are ready to join us on this exciting journey and be a part of our Platform Services (PolicyCenter and BillingCenter) teams.

**The Role**

As one of our Iteration Managers you will be part of our exciting new journey as we form the foundational system build for IAG's Strategic Platform.

You will be embedded within our team to help plan, drive and deliver on our strategic projects and initiatives. You will be responsible for uplifting the Agile delivery capabilities of the team and optimise team performance by helping to maximise the value created by our Guidewire PolicyCenter and/or BillingCenter teams.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Coach a team on Agile ways of working, fostering continuous improvement to grow Agile maturity, resilience and cultivate high performing teams
- Use technical as well as functional knowledge to remove roadblocks within the team as well as identifying technical risks
- Facilitate the identification and management of dependencies across teams within the program
- Work with teams to ensure estimates and resource requirements are understood to aid forward planning
- Work closely with the Product Owner(s) and Project managers during sprints to understand designs, backlog priorities and product demonstrations
- Proactively manage demand and capacity with key stakeholders to deliver on prioritised and prioritised demand, whilst reducing key person dependencies

**Skills & Experience**
- Proven and extensive experience as an Iteration Manager (or Scrum Master)
- In-depth knowledge of Agile methodology and experience implementing frameworks
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Experience working in an Agile environment with the ability to coach and mentor Agile teams
- An inquisitive, continuous improvement growth mindset
- Guidewire experience preferred (not essential)
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Experience using Jira, Confluence and SharePoint

**What's in it for you**
- Permanent, full-time position
- Flexible working arrangements, be based in either AU or NZ
- Excellent Recognition and Employee Benefits Program, get up to 50% off all personal policy insurance
- Access to our IAG Academy (leading and development programs)

**Ready for anything? Let's talk.**

IAG rewards and recognises its people with generous benefits, career development opportunities and real work-life balance. Employees also enjoy 13% superannuation, up to 50% insurance discounts, flexible work and leave options, generous parental leave and return to work programs, various corporate partner discounts and a people-focused culture that celebrates achievements big and small.

IAG has committed to the reconciliation movement in Australia for First Nations people and focus on providing a safe and supportive work environment for all our employees. More information on our Reconciliation Action Plan can be found on our company website.