Agile Delivery Manager

N Brown Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

N Brown Group is seeking an Agile Delivery Manager to join their Castle Fintech team. The role involves facilitating Agile practices, managing stakeholder communications, and ensuring successful delivery of technology products. Candidates should have relevant Agile experience and strong interpersonal skills.

Benefits

24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)

Enhanced maternity and adoption leave

Company pension with up to 8% contribution

Mental Health support

Colleague discount across all brands

Onsite café with subsidised rates

Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance

Paid volunteer time

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in an Agile delivery environment.
• Proven success in delivering technology products/services.
• Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and Waterfall methods.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate daily squad stand-up meetings and other ceremonies.
• Support delivery involving multiple stakeholders.
• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team.

Skills

Agile delivery

Interpersonal skills

Coaching agile ways of working

Matrix management

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Here at N Brown Group, we’re seeking an experienced Agile Delivery Manager to join our Castle Fintech team, an exciting venture to assemble a new financial services platform.

What will you do as an Agile Delivery Manager at N Brown?

• Facilitate daily squad stand-up meetings and other squad ceremonies, planning and refinement meetings and retrospectives. You’ll also support in ensuring that user stories are translated into actionable tasks for team to work on during the current sprint
• Support the delivery of work involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, driving the communication and visualisation of progress, transparency, and position of delivery
• Create transparency and predictability across your teams using appropriate methods, tools, and metrics, such as sprint plans, burn down charts, velocity charts and so on.
• Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence within strong, talented, and passionate multi-disciplinary teams
• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working collaboratively with stakeholders to proactively manage any risks, issues or delays.

What skills and experience will you have?

• Relevant experience of working in an Agile delivery environment
• Proven success in delivery of a set of technology products/services or transformation initiative within a complex technology portfolio
• Knowledge of Agile, Lean, and Waterfall methods, with proven aptitude to applying in context and demonstrating how this has supported the delivery of outcomes
• Experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Strong interpersonal skills and a team player who can work collaboratively
• Experience in coaching agile ways of working at all levels of maturity
• Proven experience in using a range of agile project management methods

What type of person are we looking for?

• Driven by boundless curiosity and experimentally minded, always starting with ‘why?’.
• Tenacious and persistent, willing to go above and beyond to deliver great outcomes.
• Focused and decisive, able to ruthlessly prioritise to stay on track.
• Energised by collaboration and a champion of radical candour.
• Work hard whilst maintain our sense of humour, and don't take ourselves too seriously.
• Have a start-up attitude to getting stuff done.

What’s in it for you?

• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
• A range of financial wellbeing support
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
• Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice

N Brown – who we are and why work for us?

At N Brown, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

We’re a forward-thinking digital retailer with a financial services proposition to be proud of. We’re customer-obsessed, serving them through three core brands: JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo. We’re experienced, with over 160 years of trading under our belt. We’re inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries; and we’re sustainable, striving to make as little impact on the planet as possible.

In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list - as voted for by our very own colleagues!

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we’re perfectly located, plus we’re surrounded by cool cafes, trendy bars and the best places to eat!

Our working hours are 36.17 per week and our core working hours are between 10am - 4pm. Given we don’t have strict working hours you can find the working pattern that’s right for you.

Our promise to you:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?

As soon as we receive your application, we’ll send you an email to let you know. We always aim to come back to you as soon as possible with an update and we really appreciate you taking the time to apply for a role with us. Good luck!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Project Management

• Industries

  Retail, Financial Services, and Technology, Information and Media

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