Senior Manager, Agile Delivery & Transformation

Republic Airways; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Republic Airways is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Delivery to lead a high‑performing team of Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Business Analysts across Agile, hybrid, and traditional methods. You will establish delivery frameworks, drive transformation, and partner with Business, Engineering, and other leaders to maximize business value.

The role requires 8+ years in delivery, 3+ years leadership, and deep knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, hybrid, and SAFe.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in project delivery roles (e.g., Program Manager, Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, BA).
• 3+ years in a leadership capacity.
• Deep understanding of project delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, hybrid traditional, SAFe).
• Strong people leadership skills with experience managing cross‑functional and distributed teams.
• Excellent facilitation, coaching, and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience with project delivery tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet).

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Project Managers, Scrum Masters and Business Analysts to foster high‑performing, self‑organizing teams.
• Develop and evolve project delivery practices across teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
• Partner with Business leaders, Engineering, and other cross‑functional leaders to ensure efficient and consistent delivery of business value.
• Champion the adoption of project delivery frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, hybrid, waterfall), tailoring approaches as needed.
• Drive development and implementation of project delivery best practices, standards, and tools across multiple methodologies.
• Lead quarterly planning sessions ensuring risks, dependencies and resources are identified and managed.
• Provide coaching across Agile, hybrid, and waterfall practices.
• Lead activities such as business visioning, roadmap development, stakeholder engagement, requirements management, journey mapping, release planning, backlog management, governance.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance delivery efficiency, transparency, and team satisfaction.
• Support change management initiatives to drive delivery maturity across the organization.
• Establish key metrics and reporting for team performance, delivery health, and process effectiveness.
• Serve as an escalation point for delivery risks or impediments and resolve issues quickly.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and adaptation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Coaching

Agile

SAFe

Scaled delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Smartsheet

Job description

Republic Airways is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Delivery to lead a high‑performing team of Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Business Analysts across Agile, hybrid, and traditional methods. You will establish delivery frameworks, drive transformation, and partner with Business, Engineering, and other leaders to maximize business value.

The role requires 8+ years in delivery, 3+ years leadership, and deep knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, hybrid, and SAFe.