Accelerator Agile Coach - Performance & Flow Coach

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Location: Lyon; Hybrid: 60% office / 40% remote; Permanent: Fulltime.

Job title: Agile Coach – Performance & Flow Coach.

About the role

This role exists to help a manufacturing accelerator become a learning system — one that improves faster than its constraints. It means building Lean and Kata habits into how teams, product owners, and leaders actually work, not running workshops outdoors. Operating inside a GxP‑regulated, compliance‑heavy environment, the coach will help the system flow better within it, requiring patience, credibility at the Gemba, and an understanding that training is not change.

Main Responsibilities

• Coach product owners toward genuine ownership — strategic thinking, outcome framing, and decision‑making, not backlog management.
• Bring Lean flow thinking to the teams: value stream mapping, constraint removal, flow metrics as a daily habit.
• Run Kata coaching cycles with teams and leaders: current condition → target condition → experiment → learn, repeating until it becomes instinct.
• Go to the Gemba, observe real work, and build interventions from what you see, not from what people report in stand‑ups.
• Help leadership adopt a go‑see, ask‑why, show‑respect posture, not just attend retrospectives.
• Navigate the GxP compliance environment intelligently, working within change control and validation processes.
• Build coaching capability in others, aiming for a system of coaches, not dependency on one.
• Foster continuous discovery habits: assumption testing, outcome framing, and evidence‑based decisions across product teams.

Experience and Qualifications

• 7+ years coaching at team, leadership, and organisational level — not just teams.
• Hands‑on Lean and Kata experience: VSM, A3 thinking, PDCA as a lived practice, not a training slide.
• Track record coaching product owners to develop strategic thinking and decision‑making capability.
• Experience operating at the Gemba — not from a Centre of Excellence.
• Exposure to regulated industries (GxP, pharma, medical device, or similar) is a strong plus.

What We’re Really Looking For

• Framework‑agnostic; not a SAFe evangelist or locked into any single method.
• Sports coaching posture: skin in the game, deliberate practice, willingness to get operational if the team needs it.
• Comfort with flow metrics: cycle time, throughput, WIP; not measuring progress in story points.
• Proven change agent: knows the difference between a workshop and a system change; training is not change.
• Excellent communicator across all levels — engineers, data scientists, POs, plant directors, leadership.
• Fluent English required; French helpful for crucial conversations.

Technical Skills

• Solid expertise in Lean & Agile practices applied to real product and delivery work.
• Hands‑on experience with Value Stream Mapping, A3 Thinking, Toyota Kata, and process optimisation techniques.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks in highly regulated industries.
• Ability to guide teams on tool selection and integration without being tool‑driven.

Hard Filters — please don’t apply if…

• You think running a workshop is the same as changing a system.
• You measure progress in certifications rather than outcomes.
• Your primary instinct is to add a ceremony, not remove a constraint.
• You’ve spent the last 5 years in a CoE with no sustained team contact.

Lyon — worth knowing

Lyon is a genuinely good place to live. TGV access to Paris (2 h) and Marseille. Two rivers. An old city and a new one. Fabulous food at prices that don’t require a second mortgage. 90 min from Grenoble and the Alps. Beaujolais next door. Milan and Barcelona are each a five‑hour train ride away. The office is at Part‑Dieu, Lyon’s main transport hub. You’ll be in the city centre three days a week (Mon–Wed), remote Thursday–Friday.

Benefits

• Highly collaborative environment with an opportunity to work with a world class team.
• Contribute to a company that pioneers digital transformation and shapes the future of global health.
• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future‑focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether through promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Thoughtful, well‑crafted rewards package that recognises your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits including high‑quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programmes and at least 14 weeks’ gender‑neutral parental leave.
• Play an instrumental part in creating best practice within our manufacturing facility.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.