Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Posted 1 day ago by ITV

£70,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom

Summary: The Senior Agile Delivery Manager at ITV will lead the delivery of a comprehensive video portfolio, managing cross-functional teams to enhance ITV's digital offerings. This role requires a strong focus on agile methodologies, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous improvement in delivery processes. The position is integral to ITV's digital transformation, aiming to create a technology-first media platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for coaching teams and driving high performance in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead and drive the successful delivery of the overall video portfolio, spanning 5 video teams.
  • Work with product managers, engineering managers, senior leaders, and other stakeholders to ensure transparent goals and priorities aligned to objectives.
  • Build and maintain strong collaborative stakeholder relationships, managing expectations and ensuring transparent clear communications on work status and progress of overall video portfolio.
  • Help identify and remove impediments across your teams, escalating where necessary.
  • Coach, motivate and empower teams through the adoption of agile values, principles and good practices.
  • Coordinate with other delivery managers to provide transparency and insights at a team, product area and portfolio level.
  • Use data and metrics to monitor progress, identify potential issues early and inform decision making.
  • Coach, mentor and guide teams to optimise delivery flow and to continuously improve.
  • Be a positive change agent and coach our teams to new or improved ways of working.
  • Line manage and support the growth of your agile delivery managers, identifying skill gaps and promoting continuous learning.
  • Facilitate team and cross-team events.
  • Use tools like Jira and Confluence to help teams plan, coordinate and optimise flow.
  • Promote and lead in ITV’s agile delivery community, sharing knowledge and experiences to help build capabilities across the organisation.

Key Skills:

  • Extensive experience leading technology transformation programmes and managing large-scale delivery portfolios.
  • Confidence in synthesising and presenting key information from multiple product groups to senior leadership.
  • Well-versed in building trust and coaching teams toward self-management and cross-functional behaviours.
  • Broad knowledge of various agile frameworks, methods and good practices.
  • Capable of managing work and dependencies across multiple internal and external partner teams.
  • Experience of using empiricism to drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting, predictability and workflow efficiency.
  • Strong coaching and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholder demands.
  • Knowledge of interconnected disciplines, such as product management, product design & engineering (desirable).
  • Experience or understanding of scaling agile practices in medium to large organisations (desirable).
  • Leading and inspiring other agilists as a line manager (desirable).
  • Knowledge of video streaming technologies (desirable).

Salary (Rate): £70,000 yearly

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Contract Type: 6 months FTC

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000

Workplace: White City, London. Expectation is minimum 2 days in the office per week

Closing Date: 15th August 2025

The team

Here at ITV, we are undergoing a major digital transformation drive, across all of our platforms and on-demand services. With the rapid shift in industry trends, from VOD streaming to programmatic AI and ever-changing consumer tastes, accelerating the demand for high-quality, high-volume content delivery at scale, we are looking to leverage our long-standing reputation as the largest commercial TV network in the UK in order to create a technology-first media platform that caters to an increasingly diverse worldwide audience.

For this role…

We are looking for someone who is passionate about leading and building high-performing agile teams to deliver valuable products and services for ITV. Agile delivery managers within viewer experience technology work across a range of cross-functional work streams to deliver value to consumers of ITV’s digital propositions, which includes ITVX and ITV News.

Some of the day-to-day responsibilities:

  • Lead and drive the successful delivery of the overall video portfolio, spanning 5 video teams.
  • Teams are formed of a fully cross functional viewer journey team and technical platform domain teams.
  • Work with product managers, engineering managers, senior leaders and other stakeholders to ensure transparent goals and priorities aligned to objectives.
  • Build and maintain strong collaborative stakeholder relationships, managing expectations and ensuring transparent clear communications on work status and progress of overall video portfolio.
  • Help identify and remove impediments across your teams, escalating where necessary.
  • Coach, motivate and empower teams through the adoption of agile values, principles and good practices.
  • Coordinate with other delivery managers to provide transparency and insights at a team, product area and portfolio level.
  • Use data and metrics to monitor progress, identify potential issues early and inform decision making.
  • Coach, mentor and guide teams to optimise delivery flow and to continuously improve.
  • Be a positive change agent and coach our teams to new or improved ways of working
  • Line manage and support the growth of your agile delivery managers. Identifying skill gaps and promoting continuous learning.
  • Facilitate team and cross-team events.
  • Use tools like Jira and Confluence to help teams plan, coordinate and optimise flow.
  • Promote and lead in ITV’s agile delivery community, sharing knowledge and experiences to help build capabilities across the organisation.

Minimum role criteria:

  • Must have extensive experience leading technology transformation programmes and managing large-scale delivery portfolios.
  • Confidence in synthesising and presenting key information from multiple product groups to senior leadership.
  • Well-versed in building trust and coaching teams toward self-management and cross-functional behaviours.
  • Broad knowledge of various agile frameworks, methods and good practices.
  • Capable of managing work and dependencies across multiple internal and external partner teams.
  • Experience of using empiricism to drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting, predictability and workflow efficiency.
  • Strong coaching and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholder demands.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of interconnected disciplines, such as product management, product design & engineering.
  • Experience or understanding of scaling agile practices in medium to large organisations.
  • Leading and inspiring other agilists as a line manager.
  • Knowledge of video streaming technologies.

Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We’d encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.