Agile Delivery Manager - 9 month FTC
Posted 4 days ago by N Brown Group
£55,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Agile Delivery Manager will join the team on a 9-month fixed-term contract, focusing on facilitating change through agile methods to ensure successful delivery of technology products and transformational initiatives. The role involves supporting squads in a complex enterprise environment, enabling the delivery of digital roadmaps, and removing barriers to progress. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in agile delivery and experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams. Key responsibilities include facilitating squad ceremonies, managing stakeholder communication, and creating transparency in delivery processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate daily squad stand-up meetings and other squad ceremonies, planning and refinement meetings, and retrospectives.
- Support in ensuring that user stories are translated into actionable tasks for the team during the current sprint.
- Support the delivery of work involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, driving communication and visualization of progress.
- Create transparency and predictability across teams using appropriate methods, tools, and metrics.
- Handle conflicting priorities, communicate clearly, and drive focus and excellence within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by collaborating with stakeholders to manage risks, issues, or delays.
Key Skills:
- Relevant experience in an Agile delivery environment.
- Proven success in delivering technology products/services or transformation initiatives within a complex technology portfolio.
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and Waterfall methods with proven aptitude in applying them contextually.
- Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively.
- Experience in coaching agile ways of working at various maturity levels (desirable).
- Proven experience using a range of agile project management methods (desirable).
Salary (Rate): £55,000.00 yearly
City: Manchester Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
We’re looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our team on a 9 month fixed term contract. You’ll have a track record of facilitating change using agile methods to help assure our future success and experience in establishing, embedding, and coaching agile ways of working in teams that operate within fast-paced environments. In the role you will work to support one or more squads to help successfully deliver technology products/services or transformational initiatives within a complex enterprise change and technology portfolio. You’ll be a master in enabling the delivery of complex digital roadmaps, breaking down barriers for your team, and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed.
What will you do as an Agile Delivery Manager at N Brown?
- Facilitate daily squad stand-up meetings and other squad ceremonies, planning and refinement meetings and retrospectives.
- You’ll also support in ensuring that user stories are translated into actionable tasks for team to work on during the current sprint
- Support the delivery of work involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, driving the communication and visualisation of progress, transparency, and position of delivery
- Create transparency and predictability across your teams using appropriate methods, tools, and metrics, such as sprint plans, burn down charts, velocity charts and so on.
- Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence within strong, talented, and passionate multi-disciplinary teams
- Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working collaboratively with stakeholders to proactively manage any risks, issues or delays.
What skills and experience will you have?
- Relevant experience of working in an Agile delivery environment
- Have proven success in delivery of a set of technology products/services or transformation initiative within a complex technology portfolio
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and Waterfall methods, with proven aptitude to applying in context and demonstrating how this has supported the delivery of outcomes
- Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
- Strong interpersonal skills and a team player who can work collaboratively
Desirable skills
- Experience in coaching agile ways of working at all levels of maturity
- Proven experience in using a range of agile project management methods
What’s in it for you?
- Hybrid working (2-3 days in the office at a minimum)
- 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
- Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
- Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
- A range of financial wellbeing support
- Stream - a financial wellbeing tool that helps you track your pay, access earnings early and manage your money with confidence
- Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
- Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
- Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
- Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice