Agile PM/Delivery Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by Lorien
£450 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, UK
Summary: The Agile Project Manager/Delivery Lead role involves leading agile projects for a major public sector client in Edinburgh, focusing on planning and performance to deliver high business value. The position requires collaboration with delivery teams and the scrum master to foster a positive working environment. The successful candidate will manage schedules, risks, and supplier relationships while ensuring compliance with delivery methodologies. This is a 6-month contract position requiring in-office presence twice a week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Schedule management and high-level change control (scope management)
- Risk, Issue, Assumption and Dependency management
- Supplier management
- Negotiating and unblocking
- Compliance within house LOAD delivery methodology
- Project reporting
- Target delivery
Key Skills:
- Strong project management skills previously deployed in agile projects - schedule management, risk management, reporting
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
- Demonstrable experience of delivering measurable business value
- Recent experience managing both agile and traditional projects, incorporating both software delivery and the associated business change.
- Strong awareness of Digital First Service Standards, and Government Digital Services (GDS).
- Agile certification
- Project management certification
- Experience of user research
- Azure DevOps
Salary (Rate): £450 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Agile Project Manager/Delivery Lead
Outside IR35 - Must be able to work in Edinburgh offices 2x per week.
6 month initial contract
One of Loriens largest Public Sector clients is undertaking a number of change programmes to modernise the delivery of its services, underpinned by technology. To support this transformation they are looking for an Agile Project Manager/Delivery Lead to join the team to lead on planning, supporting the team to achieve a high level of performance and quality, and deliver agile projects that can demonstrably deliver high business value to users and stakeholders. The successful candidate will work closely with the delivery teams.
Responsibilities will include:
- Schedule management and high-level change control (scope management)
- Risk, Issue, Assumption and Dependency management
- Supplier management
- Negotiating and unblocking
- Compliance within house LOAD delivery methodology
- Project reporting
- Target delivery
The role requires co-ordination, communication and influence; the successful candidate will work closely with the scrum master to contribute to a positive working environment, enabling the agile team to achieve optimal delivery.
Essential Criteria:
The candidate will be required to evidence
- Strong project management skills previously deployed in agile projects - schedule management, risk management, reporting
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills
- Excellent influencing and negotiating skills
- Demonstrable experience of delivering measurable business value
- Recent experience managing both agile and traditional projects, incorporating both software delivery and the associated business change.
- Strong awareness of Digital First Service Standards, and Government Digital Services (GDS).
Desirable:
- Agile certification
- Project management certification
- Experience of user research
- Azure DevOps
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.