Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Hippo Digital 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 your multi-disciplined 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 the Senior level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role, which we are very keen to support.]

• 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

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

Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on-top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 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

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…