Delivery Lead

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom News UK Full time

About the role:

The Delivery Lead will play a vital role within our Times Media technology department, helping to drive a programme of work to meet our strategic goals. This role will be responsible for ensuring exceptional end-to-end delivery across a number of cross-functional software development teams and business functions. The Delivery Lead will liaise and communicate to a broad range of stakeholders and have a direct impact on our customer experience and overall business profitability.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Project/programme management of large initiatives spanning scrum teams and business workstreams
  • Working with Product Managers to create and maintain the programme roadmap for multiple scrum teams to meet business OKRs and monitor progress of key deliverables
  • Reporting and stakeholder communications for the programme of work
  • Supporting the cross-functional teams within the programme, and an escalation point for key risks/blockers/dependencies that require support
  • Driving quarterly planning processes for the programme across technology and business functions
  • Line management of Agile Delivery Managers within the programme
  • Supporting the wider Times delivery community with shared tools, standards, practices, and metrics

Requirements:

  • Experience in agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery management of large initiatives with multiple dependencies
  • Core knowledge of software development cycles, scrum, and principles behind agile delivery
  • You have worked within a number of agile teams to support the delivery of company OKRs, have the ability to coordinate work across many agile and business teams
  • Ability to balance multiple priorities, and are comfortable dealing with ambiguity
  • Confident delivering process-led as well as technology-led deliverables and are adept in change management principles
  • Can develop highly effective relationships with colleagues at all levels in the organization to deliver the optimal solution, escalate where necessary to ensure the deliverables are completed in a manner that delivers the best outcome for the organization
  • Proactively take responsibility, taking ownership of issues that arise and follow through to resolve them
  • Have experience with project management tooling such as Jira, Confluence, and roadmap tools Jira Product Discovery
  • An experienced line manager who is also passionate about supporting a delivery community of shared learning and practices

Benefits:

  • Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
  • Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
  • Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
  • Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
  • 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
  • Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
  • Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
  • Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage, and counselling
  • A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
  • 30 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

About News UK:

We are one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion, and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-platform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

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