We’re building a relationship-oriented bank for the modern world. We need talented, passionate professionals who are dedicated to doing what’s right for our clients. At CIBC, we embrace your strengths and your ambitions, so you are empowered at work. Our team members have what they need to make a meaningful impact and are truly valued for who they are and what they contribute. To learn more about CIBC, please visit CIBC.com (https://www.cibc.com/en/about-cibc.html) **What** **y** **ou’ll** **b** **e** **d** **oing** The Senior Director is a key member of the Enterprise Agile Centre of Expertise (COE), responsible to drive the adoption of the end-to-end (E2E) operating model design and deployment across CIBC through deployment of the Agile Coaches. The Senior Director is accountable for defining and leading the enterprise-wide vision, standards, and capability strategy for the Agile Coach craft, and as functional reporting home for the Agile Coaches. The role ensures consistent, high-quality agile coaching across Domains; drives strategic workforce planning; develops strong Chapter leadership; and embeds agile principles, leadership behaviours, and performance enablement practices aligned to CIBC’s E2E operating model. This role balances enterprise standardization with Domain flexibility, ensuring Agile Coaches operate with clarity of expectations, consistent methodologies, and measurable impact on business and client outcomes. _At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you’ll spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote._ **How** **y** **ou’ll** **s** **ucceed** + **Business Management -** Define,maintain, and continuously evolve enterprise standards for the Agile Coach craft, ensuring alignment to the E2E operating model and transformation roadmap.Ensure consistency of agile tooling, ceremonies, frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban), OKR guidance, QBR facilitation, and performance metrics.Embed the E2E operating model at scale by reinforcing role clarity, leadership expectations, and agile ways of working across Crews and Squads.Establish governance mechanisms tomonitorcoaching quality, maturity progression, and alignment to enterprise standards.Take a CIBC-wide view to identify systemic impediments and recommend operating model improvements in partnership with Domain and COE leaders. + **Team Management -** Build and lead a high-performingteam, ensuring strong development pathways from novice to mastery aligned to the progression model. Coach anddevelop leaders, strengthening their capability in performance management, talent development, and culture building. Foster a culture of continuous learning, growth mindset, psychological safety, and servant leadership across the Agile Coach community. Establish structured capability uplift programs (training, communities of practice, mentoring, peer coaching) to elevate craft excellenceenterprise wide. Develop future enterprise leaders by strengthening leadershipbehaviours, influence skills, and business acumen within the coaching population.Determineand execute the strategic workforce and capability plan (capacity, skill mix, leveling, succession, recruitment). Act as functional reporting home for Agile Coach Craft. + **Operational Effectiveness** **-** Ensure Agile Coaches effectively embed E2E Op Model principles and leadershipbehavioursthat increase flow of value, strengthen team empowerment, and enable sustainable performance. Drive measurable improvement in delivery maturity, continuous improvement practices, and culture evolution acrossCrews and Domains.Guidethe evolution of Agile Coaches toward broader performance partnership capability as enterprise maturity increases.Build strong partnerships with Crew Leads, Product Owners, Crew Tech Leads, and Domain Leads to ensure coaching translates into tangible business and client outcomes.Promote knowledge sharing and cross-domain collaboration to accelerate enterprise-wide maturity **Who** **y** **ou** **a** **re** + **You embrace and advocate for change** . You continuously evolve your thinking and the way you workin order todeliver your best. You apply thought leadership and complex concepts to contribute to the continuous refinement of strategicobjectives. + **You're** **motivated by collective success.** You know that teamwork can transforma good ideainto a great one. You know that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life.Youpossessexcellent relationship-building skills and can influence stakeholders with varied backgrounds and priorities. + **You know that details matter.** You notice things that othersdon't. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making. You have strong planning skills, sufficient to develop project/workplansand coordinate delivery of complex initiatives across business and organizational lines. You are proven to lead in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and can effectively manage multiple activities with varying complexity under tighttime frames. + **You give meaning to data.** You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way.Youdemonstratewell-developed judgment and problem-solving skills to analyze information and formulate responses to complex problems and issues for diverse audiences. + **You** **possess** **strong communication** **and interactive skills** to convey factual and conceptual information, requiring detailed explanation and interpretation, and communicate effectively at all levels in the organization. + **You act like an owner.** You thrive whenyou'reempowered to take initiative, go above and beyond, and deliver results. You have experience withlarge changeinitiatives, delivering overarching strategies related to change and communication. You balance an LOB and CIBC-wide perspective with specific partner and stakeholder needs and resource constraints. + **Values matter to you.** You bring your real self toworkand you live our values – trust,teamworkand accountability. **What CIBC Offers** At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck. + We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program. + Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients. + We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development. *Subject to plan and program terms and conditions **What you need to know** + CIBC is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. If you need accommodation, please contact Mailbox.careers-carrieres@cibc.com + CIBC is committed to clarity in our hiring process. All roles posted are opportunities we’re actively recruiting for, unless stated otherwise. + You need to be legally eligible to work at the location(s) specified above and, where applicable, must have a valid work or study permit. + We may ask you to complete an attribute-based assessment and other skills test (such as simulation, coding, French proficiency). + We use artificial intelligence tools during the recruitment process. Our goal for the application process is to get to know more about you, all that you have to offer, and give you the opportunity to learn more about us. **Job Location** Toronto-81 Bay, 24th Floor **Employment Type** Regular **Weekly Hours** 37.5 **Skills** Cost Effectiveness Analysis, Customer Experience (CX), Employee Experience, Leadership, Process Changes, Project Delivery, Project Management Oversight, Results-Oriented, Strategic Objectives, Strategic Projects At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them. Our ability to create value for all CIBC stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability. Working with CIBC makes you a part of a work environment committed to our clients, employees and communities - a place where you can excel. Every day, our 44,000 employees help our clients achieve their financial goals, because what matters to our clients, matters to us.