Delivery Lead

2 months ago


London, United Kingdom News UK Full time

Job Description

Delivery Lead - Times Media

We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.

About the role:

The delivery lead plays a vital role within our Times Media technology department, helping to drive a programme of work to meet our strategic goals (OKRs) in a dynamic working environment. This role will be responsible for ensuring exceptional end to end delivery across a number of cross-functional software development teams and business functions. This role liaises and communicates to a broad range of stakeholders and has a direct impact on our customer experience and overall business profitability. The Delivery lead is also responsible for line management of Agile Delivery Managers within the programme, and will help to guide and drive best practice for delivery across the Times.

What you’ll be doing:

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

What we’re looking for from you:

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 organisation

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

We are News UK : 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 multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through ourDiversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy ( , which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have12 employee led networks and groups (;t=2s) that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary &paternityleave up to 2 weeks

Wide range oftrainingavailable, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

Private medical insuranceincluding 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 towellbeing benefitssuch as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

30 daysholiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4volunteeringdays per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected] .


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