Coach, Performance Improvement and Project Turnaround

A financial sector organization is seeking a senior coach to work on complex projects and programs, often experiencing deviations (delays, cost overruns, quality or alignment issues). The role reports to the Delivery Management Director and combines coaching on practices, turnaround, and methodological structuring. The client is seeking a senior member of the Delivery Management team, positioned as a strategic expert who intervenes in floundering projects and programs to stabilize and turn them around. The recurring keywords (turnaround, diagnosis, root causes, ambiguous contexts, politically sensitive) indicate that the core of the role is crisis intervention, not traditional Agile coaching. The ideal candidate combines three hats: delivery practices coach (Agile, Waterfall, Lean, hybrid environments), project turnaround specialist capable of quickly providing a structured diagnosis, and methodological structuring expert comfortable working with both an Agile backlog and a detailed, t...