Agile Delivery Manager

AAgile Delivery Manager
£700-£750 per day Inside Ir35
6 months initial contract
Hybrid - 3 days per week in Newcastle

Job Description
As an Agile Delivery Manager within Digital & Data you will work with your team to champion agile and lean ways of working and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

This role involves:

• Helping your team collaborate effectively in a fast paced, transparent, multi-disciplined environment that is working at scale with multiple delivery teams.
• Being core at breaking down barriers for your team, and both planning at a higher level and getting into the details to make things happen, whilst working on unblocking dependencies with other teams.
• Being an active member of the delivery community of practice sharing and learning with others

Responsibilities

As a Agile Delivery Manager, you will:

• Manage delivery in a complex and emergent environment, involving multiple teams and senior stakeholders, building momentum and managing multiple competing demands.
• Lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, in order to deliver services that meet users’ needs.
• Provide useful and accurate delivery metrics to facilitate continual improvement.
• Facilitate an inclusive team environment, where innovation and challenge are welcomed.
• Deliver to agreed goals and milestones by actively tackling risks / blockers, and escalating where necessary.
• Develop, guide and coach the team, to continually improve effectiveness, efficiency and cohesion.
• Engage stakeholders – building strong relationships with people across teams

Person Specification

• Experience of digital delivery in an agile environment, with multidisciplinary teams, building momentum and managing multiple competing demands.
• Promoting a culture of psychological safety in teams, managing team dynamic;
• Have a proactive approach to learning and development of yourself and others
• Experience of planning delivery of outcomes, coping with uncertainty and managing risks and dependencies across a number other teams
• Experience in the use of agile principles and approaches in a large, complex and fast paced environment