Senior Agile Delivery Manager

ITV; London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company in London is looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to lead high-performing teams across multiple video projects. The role involves fostering collaboration, driving delivery, and coaching teams in agile principles. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in technology transformations and stakeholder management. Competitive benefits include flexible working options and generous holiday allowances.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Generous holiday allowance

Annual bonus opportunity

Competitive pension contribution

Wellbeing and volunteering days

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading technology transformation programmes.
• Confidence in presenting information to senior leadership.
• Knowledge of agile frameworks and practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of video portfolio across multiple teams.
• Ensure transparent communication on work status and team progress.
• Identify and remove impediments affecting team performance.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision-making

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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Job Description

Workplace: London, White City. Expectation is minimum 1-2 days in the office per week

6 months FTC

The team

Here at ITV, we are undergoing a major digital transformation drive, across all of our platforms and on-demand services. With the rapid shift in industry trends, from VOD streaming to programmatic AI and ever-changing consumer tastes, accelerating the demand for high-quality, high-volume content delivery at scale, we are looking to leverage our long-standing reputation as the largest commercial TV network in the UK in order to create a technology-first media platform that caters to an increasingly diverse worldwide audience.

For this role...

We are looking for someone who is passionate about leading and building high-performing agile teams to deliver valuable products and services for ITV. Agile delivery managers within viewer experience technology work across a range of cross-functional work streams to deliver value to consumers of ITV's digital propositions, which includes ITVX and ITV News.

Some of the day-to-day responsibilities:

• Lead and drive the successful delivery of the overall video portfolio, spanning 5 video teams. Teams are formed of a fully cross functional viewer journey team and technical platform domain teams.
• Work with product managers, engineering managers, senior leaders and other stakeholders to ensure transparent goals and priorities aligned to objectives.
• Build and maintain strong collaborative stakeholder relationships, managing expectations and ensuring transparent clear communications on work status and progress of overall video portfolio.
• Help identify and remove impediments across your teams, escalating where necessary.
• Coach, motivate and empower teams through the adoption of agile values, principles and good practices.
• Coordinate with other delivery managers to provide transparency and insights at a team, product area and portfolio level.
• Use data and metrics to monitor progress, identify potential issues early and inform decision making.
• Coach, mentor and guide teams to optimise delivery flow and to continuously improve.
• Be a positive change agent and coach our teams to new or improved ways of working
• Line manage and support the growth of your agile delivery managers. Identifying skill gaps and promoting continuous learning.
• Facilitate team and cross-team events.
• Use tools like Jira and Confluence to help teams plan, coordinate and optimise flow.
• Promote and lead in ITV's agile delivery community, sharing knowledge and experiences to help build capabilities across the organisation.

Minimum role criteria:

• Must have extensive experience leading technology transformation programmes and managing large-scale delivery portfolios.
• Confidence in synthesising and presenting key information from multiple product groups to senior leadership.
• Well-versed in building trust and coaching teams toward self-management and cross-functional behaviours.
• Broad knowledge of various agile frameworks, methods and good practices.
• Capable of managing work and dependencies across multiple internal and external partner teams.
• Experience of using empiricism to drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting, predictability and workflow efficiency.
• Strong coaching and facilitation skills.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholder demands.

Desirable

• Knowledge of interconnected disciplines, such as product management, product design & engineering.
• Experience or understanding of scaling agile practices in medium to large organisations.
• Leading and inspiring other agilists as a line manager.
• Knowledge of video streaming technologies.

Please note, on occasion we may receive a very large volume of applications which means applications for a role may close earlier than the referenced closing date. We'd encourage you to apply as soon as possible if interested.

About Us

Your work matters to millions.

Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it's not surprising that you'll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we're at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.

When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact's felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.

Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don't just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.

About the Team

ITV is for everyone.

ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we'll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).

We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at [e-mail]. Find out more about applying with a disability.

* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.

Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.

ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:

• Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyone
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

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