Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Opencast | B Corp™; North East; On-site; GBP 59,001 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pension

Health cash plan

Share options

Discretionary bonus

Flexible hours

25 days holiday

Job summary

A leading tech consultancy, Opencast, seeks a Senior Agile Delivery Manager to join their team in North East England. This role involves leading diverse agile teams to deliver services that meet clients' strategic goals. The successful candidate will demonstrate leadership in challenging environments and foster team autonomy and engagement. With a competitive salary and supportive work culture, this position is ideal for those looking to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading agile teams and delivery milestones.
• Ability to simplify complex problems and foster team self-organisation.
• Proactive approach in managing stakeholders and maintaining team dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers to lead service delivery.
• Create a safe working environment for agile teams.
• Manage complex projects and facilitate team engagement.

Skills

Agile Management

Leadership

Teamwork

Stakeholder Management

Job description

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Product Delivery & User Centred Design - Talent Engagement Partner at Opencast

Ready for a new challenge?

Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.

The role

You’ll collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients’ strategic outcomes. You'll facilitate people’s work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams.

You’ll lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients. You’ll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.

You're comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction.

In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:

• distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve
• simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team
• created a team charter, agreed ways of working and collaboratively iterated throughout the project
• organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement and self-organisation
• connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions
• influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project’s vision
• selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics
• created and facilitated workshops
• fostered transparency and alignment through building trust

There are other essential skills you’ll need to be a great senior consultant. At interview, please show how you:

• are proactive, and can work autonomously
• challenge appropriately and resolve conflict
• help others to successfully work through challenges
• support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships
• contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work

There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas. These are:

• The Service Standard (UK Government) / GDS
• use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• calculating metrics and using outcomes to effectively manage the team
• demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management

If you have experience in these areas, please show it on your CV and talk about it at interview.

Senior consultant salary range: £59,001 - £71,000

What our offer includes

A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.

Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday.

People to support you every step of the way.

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel across the UK is part of life at Opencast. This varies in frequency, and takes into account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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