Agile Delivery Manager

Salary: £68,612

Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Contract: Permanent

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships. 

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. 

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone. 

We are looking for a Delivery Manager to join our team on a permanent basis. 

Where in Wellcome will I be working? 

You will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager. In this role, you will primarily matrix work with teams within the Digital & Technology department. We currently have eight product and workstream teams, who’s work consists of public-facing websites, Tableau dashboards, infrastructure, research content search engines and a bespoke CRM system for all our grants. We work primarily with agile to deliver on our products and projects.  

What will I be doing? 

You will work with one of our product or workstream teams to deliver frequent value our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the product lifecycle. You will work closely with product managers and workstream leads to set out goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them. You will also be working with the rest of the delivery team and where appropriate, championing our ways of working across the organisation. 

As a Delivery Manager, you will: 

• Have a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards

• Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance product team ways of working

• Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments

• Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery

• Be the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates

• Support Product Managers with informed goal setting, having a familiarity of sprint goal and OKR setting techniques

• Have a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs

• Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments. 

Is this job for me?  

We are looking for someone who: 

• Has previous 2-4 years experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master

• Is experienced working collaboratively with product