Agile Delivery Manager

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Wellcome Trust Full time

Salary: £68,612

Closing Date: Tuesday, 30 July

Contract: Permanent

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

We are looking for a Delivery Managerto join our team on apermanent basis.

Where in Wellcome will I be working?

You will be part of the Strategy&Governance team within the Digital & Technology department reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager. In this role, you will primarilymatrix work with teams within the Digital & Technology department.We currently have eight product and workstream teams, who’s work consists ofpublic-facing websites, Tableau dashboards, infrastructure, research content search engines and a bespoke CRM system for all our grants. We work primarilywith agile to deliver on our products and projects. 

What will I be doing?

You will work with one of our productor workstream teams to deliver frequent value our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the product lifecycle. You will work closely with product managers and workstream leads to set out goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You willbe responsible foridentifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them. You will also be working with the rest of the delivery team and where appropriate, championing our ways of working across the organisation.

As a Delivery Manager, you will:

Apply agile principles and practices to teams including facilitating agile events when necessary

Have a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards

Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments

Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring their expectations are managed and their requirements are understood and addressed

Identify and mitigate project risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery

Allocate resources effectively, ensuring the right skills and expertise are available to deliver projects successfully

Drive continuous improvement initiatives, identifying areas for optimization and implementing best practices to enhance project delivery processes

Be the point of communication for project progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates

Support Product Managers with informed goal setting, having a familiarity of sprint goal and OKR setting techniques

Have a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs

Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.

Is this job for me? 

We are looking for someone who:

Is experienced working collaboratively with product managers, designers and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully

Is experiencedevalutating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban

Has an analytical and creative approach to problem-solving

Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve project goals

Proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties

Is committed to EDI, ensuring an inclusive approach is taken into product and workstream delivery 

Interview Dates 14/8 and 15/8

You can view the full on the website

Our Hybrid Way of Working   

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays) from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days working either remotely or in the office. 

From 1st September 2024 we will move to 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office. 

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do  

. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at . 

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