Agile Program Delivery Manager

Jobtailor; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Agile Marketing Coach to champion agile practices within the GRS Marketing team in Southwestern Ontario. You will enable delivery of digital client engagement initiatives and identify opportunities to accelerate marketing processes and outputs.

You will facilitate Scrum ceremonies, guide agile principles across stakeholders, and coach the team to optimize campaign ROI while managing backlogs, capacity, and timelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in agile practices and coaching dynamic teams with proven results and deliverables.
• 3+ years as part of a high-performance marketing organization.
• Subject matter expert in agile practices (Scrum framework).
• High level of accountability and ability to influence across diverse groups.

Responsibilities

• Champion agile methods across the marketing team and partner groups.
• Enable delivery of digital client engagement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate and improve marketing processes and strategy.
• Facilitate sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, backlog management and other Agile ceremonies.
• Coach team members to optimize contributions and maximize campaign ROI.
• Lead issue resolution with cross-functional partners and guide stakeholders to maintain momentum.
• Forecast capacity utilization and support campaign goals, testing, and delivery.

Skills

Agile practices

Scrum framework

Project management

Digital marketing strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Backlog management

Capacity planning

Negotiation skills

Tools

Marketing technology

Digital strategy portfolio

Job description

• Champion agile ways of working across the GRS Marketing team
• Enable delivery of digital client engagement initiatives
• Identify opportunities to accelerate and improve marketing processes, outputs, and digital marketing strategy
• Facilitate sprint planning, refinement, stand-ups, backlog management, and other Agile ceremonies
• Guide the Agile marketing team and stakeholders in Agile principles and methodologies
• Provide project management and capacity utilization planning, including forecasting
• Support campaign goals, client stories, team backlogs, time-boxed deliverables, campaign development, and testing
• Capture effort levels, timelines, resourcing, and budgetary requirements for digital strategy portfolio initiatives
• Lead issue and roadblock resolution with cross-functional partners
• Engage stakeholders and leadership to maintain team progress and momentum
• Troubleshoot escalated issues, identify root causes, and implement resolutions
• Lead management and implementation of digital strategy initiatives and marketing technology, including POCs and implementations
• Coach team members to optimize contributions and maximize campaign ROI

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience in agile practices and coaching dynamic teams with proven results and deliverables
• 3+ years as part of a high-performance marketing organization
• Subject matter expert in agile practices (Scrum framework)
• High level of accountability
• Collaboration, leading through influence, relationship building across diverse groups and teams
• Able to gather and prioritize information for quick, informed decisions
• Experience spanning ideation through development and execution
• Advocate for using capacity to optimize OKR and customer experience
• Strong negotiation skills and willingness to challenge and be challenged
• Experienced in backlog building, burndown tracking, etc

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Agile practices, including Scrum framework, to lead and coach high-performance marketing teams. Proven ability to manage digital strategy initiatives, optimize campaign ROI, and facilitate effective stakeholder engagement.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Agile Practices
• Scrum Framework
• Project Management
• Digital Marketing Strategy
• Stakeholder Engagement

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Backlog Management
• Burndown Tracking
• Capacity Utilization Planning
• Digital Client Engagement
• Campaign Development

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Relationship Building
• Negotiation Skills
• Problem Solving
• Coaching

Industry Keywords

• Agile Methodologies
• High-Performance Marketing Organization
• OKR Optimization
• Client Stories
• Time-Boxed Deliverables

Tools & Technologies

• Marketing Technology
• Digital Strategy Portfolio