Lead Agile Delivery Manager

Hippo Digital Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in the UK is seeking a skilled Lead Delivery Manager to ensure effective project delivery and team productivity. In this role, you will lead teams, manage stakeholder relationships, and influence client strategies while advocating for user-centered design. Your expertise will guide less experienced delivery managers in their career development as you navigate multiple project deliveries across various teams.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Perkbox access for discounts

Critical illness cover

Life assurance and death in service cover

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work scheme

Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme

Season ticket loans

Flexible benefits scheme with various options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in programme management or programme delivery management.
• Expert in agile practices and confident in leading other Delivery Managers.
• Ability to construct and manage delivery plans across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage team productivity and deliver quality outcomes.
• Lead diverse, multidisciplinary teams in delivering client work.
• Communicate project progress effectively with stakeholders.

Skills

People Management

Programme Delivery

Stakeholder Engagement

Risk Management

Strategic Planning

Agile Methodologies

Job description

About The Role

Hippo is recruiting for a LeadDelivery Manager to join our growing consultancy. Delivery Managers ensure that our client's goals are delivered. This means managing the team’s productivity and effectiveness, and working with the team and clients to ensure the project stays on track and delivers quality outcomes to our clients.

As a Lead Consultant, specialising in Delivery, you’ll already be an expert in your field, an expert agile practitioner, and a confident line manager of other Delivery Managers. You’ll also be a leader of people and teams and an advocate for user-centred design approaches. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members and to continue to develop you as a leader

Your role in a nutshell:

• Engage with stakeholders, building delivery plans across multiple teams that align with the product vision.
• Track and understand the progress your team/s are making and communicate this effectively with stakeholders.
• Proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies across multiple teams, unblocking impediments so teams have the best environment to deliver.
• Put in place measurable objectives and results for teams ensuring they understand what they are working towards and can measure their performance.
• Manage people and projects.
• Work closely with the Head of Delivery to provide leadership and direction within the Hippo Delivery Community of Practice.
• Provide delivery leadership in your projects and coaching for less experienced members of your client team.
• Lead diverse, multidisciplinary teams delivering work on behalf of one of our clients, likely to be one of the most significant and high-profile organisations in the UK.
• Identify and Lead in solving operational client challenges as well as technical or digital ones.

Skills and experience that you need

People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.

We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you have experience in programme management or programme delivery management, including:

• Understanding and delivering to strategic objectives
• Overseeing, coordinating or leading the work of multiple teams
• Aligning teams around a shared set of goals or deliverables
• Creating holistic programme delivery plans
• Establishing benefit realisation milestones
• Working with multiple stakeholders
• Implementing governance

• Lead complex deliveries across multiple teams, focussing on delivering quality and value to our clients.
• Lead, coach and train less experienced delivery managers and be responsible for their career development.
• Take a strategic role in planning and executing a product delivery over the short and long term across multiple development teams.
• Build consensus amongst people with different perspectives, with the confidence to make decisive decisions when consensus is not possible.
• Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints to meet user & business needs across complex multi-team environments.
• Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.

What makes us great

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  • private health cover
  • private dental cover
  • additional company pension contributions
  • additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  • wellbeing contribution
  • charity contributions
  • tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo.

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.

Hippo locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.