Description
Senior Agile Delivery Manager
Newcastle
£500 p/day Umbrella
We are representing a key public sector client who are seeking an Agile Delivery Manager on an interim basis.
Duties:
. Mentors and coaches high performance teams to help them continuously improve
. Defines metrics to enable teams to track their progress, their goals and understand areas for improvement
. Establishes a culture to help create a safe and supporting environment for all teams, encourages experimentation and makes failure a safe part of learning.
. Leads by example and demonstrates the right behaviours. Deals with conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism
. Owns and builds relationships with all senior stakeholders utilising appropriate and effective governance mechanisms.
. Ensures that projects and programmes deliver business value and are commercially viable
. Works with the senior technology and business stakeholders to define the vision and the accompanying delivery roadmap
. Design, facilitate and lead workshops, meetings with senior stakeholders, driving and influencing strategic decisions and outcomes, helping establish the pace of delivery
. Manage risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) for complex programmes
. Sets the standard for agile events across complex, high risk projects or programmes often delivered by multiple teams, ensuring business and delivery teams are working to a common objective and vision to deliver specific outcomes
. Establish standards of agile practices for the agile delivery manager community, continuously improve the agile methods and tools used by the community
. Establish and nurture a culture of working in an agile manner utilising agile delivery principles
Required knowledge/skills/experience:
. Coaches and leads teams in Agile and Lean practices determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project.
. Able to mediate and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels.
. Track record of successfully leading teams through the full product life cycle.
. Ability to identify which tools and techniques should be used at each stage.
. Able to develop sustainable support models.
. Able to identify and deal with potential risks across or between all phases of the life cycle.
. Able to coach others.
. Contributes to the assessment of other teams, providing guidance and support as they move through the life cycle phases.
. Determines the strategic vision and direction. Positively influences key senior stakeholders.
. Can align user research activities to help the organisation understand changing user behaviour
. Acts as the escalation point and resolve large or high risk commercial management issues. Able to coach others in appropriate commercial management.
Interested?
Please reply with your updated CV and we will be in touch shortly to discuss the next steps!
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