Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Hippo Digital; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Perkbox access

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles

Season ticket loans

Wellbeing sessions

Flexible benefits (health, pension,hol

Private health cover

Additional holidays

Charity contributions

Tree planting

Job summary

Hippo Digital is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to embed agile ways of working across client projects and lead multi-disciplinary teams on site. You’ll run ceremonies, remove impediments, and drive continuous improvement while fostering a user-centred approach to design and delivery.

You will guide teams, manage risks, and collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure priorities align with product or service outcomes, with opportunities for progression within the senior level.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex digital projects.
• Proven ability in agile project management frameworks (SCRUM/Lean/DSDM/APMG).
• Experience leading teams of varying configurations (consultancy, hybrid client teams).
• Strong collaboration and use of project management tools.
• Understanding of user-centred design principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Help build and maintain the on-site delivery team, ensuring motivation and cohesion.
• Identify obstacles and help the team overcome them.
• Facilitate and track team risks and dependencies.
• Help the team focus on priorities to deliver the product or service.
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
• Coach and mentor team members to apply agile and lean tools and techniques.
• Build strong relationships with team and stakeholders.

Skills

Project delivery

Agile leadership

Team leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

User-centered design

Job description

Hippo Digital is recruiting for Senior Delivery Managers to join our growing consultancy. Delivery Managers work with our clients to embed agile ways of working and support your multi-disciplined teams to focus on the priorities to deliver the associated product or services. You’ll also run ceremonies including stand‑ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and show and tells.

As a Senior Consultant, specialising in Delivery, you’ll already be an expert in your field. You’ll also be a leader of people and teams and 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 as a leader.

[Please note we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at the Senior level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role, which we are very keen to support.]

Your role in a nutshell:

• Help to build and maintain the team on‑site, making sure that they are motivated, happy, and working well together
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them
• Facilitate and track team risks and dependencies
• Help the team to focus on the priorities to deliver the product or service
• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team
• Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders

About the Candidate:

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 can demonstrate experience in:

• Delivering complex digital projects
• Agile project management and working practices (SCRUM/Lean/DSDM/APMG)
• Leading teams of various configurations and sizes, from a fully resourced consultancy team to running hybrid consultancy/client teams
• Collaboration and project management tools
• Understanding of user centred design principles and practices

About The Company

Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on‑top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• 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
• Additional company pension contributions
• Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• 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.

Have a look through our Website at Our Story & Purpose, Our Culture & Values, Case Studies and Our Solutions & Services to find out some more!

Hippo Locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We’re on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on‑site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.