Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Hippo Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital consultancy in the UK is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to enhance team performance and embed agile practices. Responsibilities include facilitating team interactions, overcoming project obstacles, and fostering continuous improvement. Ideal candidates should have proven experience in delivering complex projects and leading diverse teams. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, with opportunities for growth and continuous development.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Perkbox access for discounts

Flexible benefits scheme

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in delivering complex digital projects.
• Expertise in agile project management methodologies (SCRUM, Lean).
• Ability to lead teams of various configurations and sizes.

Responsibilities

• Help to build and maintain the team on-site.
• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them.
• Facilitate and track team risks and dependencies.
• Encourage continuous improvement of the delivery team.

Skills

Agile project management

Leading teams

User centred design principles

Collaboration tools

Delivering complex digital projects

Job description

Overview

Hippo 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 multi-disciplinary 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 this level (senior), therefore the advertised salary band is the lower end of our full banding for this level of position, allowing for progression in the role.

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
• Line management of colleagues within your profession

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

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 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 which will be your contracted office location. 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. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.