Workday Delivery Lead - Agile, Product-Led Transformation

Workday Delivery Lead – 6 month FTC ( 16957 )

We are easy

Jet – a FTSE-250 listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easy

Jet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe. We fly more than 1,207 routes, connecting 38 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

What makes us easy

Jet? Our Promise Behaviours – we are Safe, Bold, Welcoming and Challenging. Four Behaviours. One Spirit. One easy

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We’re looking for an experienced Workday Delivery Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping and operating the system of delivery across our Workday product suite. Our Workday platform underpins critical employee and business processes across the organisation – including Core HCM, Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence – forming a central part of the operational heartbeat of the business. In this role, you will drive a scalable, efficient, and product-led approach to delivery.

You’ll work across HR, Technology, Payroll, Reward, and wider business teams to remove systemic blockers, improve flow, and enable high-performing product teams. This is an exciting opportunity to support our ongoing transformation to a product‑led operating model, while helping to evolve the future of Workday delivery including the integration of AI capabilities.

• Design, implement, and continuously improve the Workday delivery model to optimise idea‑to‑value flow
• Enable and coach teams in Agile best practices, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• Maintain and drive delivery plans across the Workday product suite
• Introduce and track flow metrics and performance indicators to measure delivery effectiveness
• Identify, manage, and remove systemic impediments and delivery blockers
• Partner closely with the Workday Lead and Technical Architect to shape and future‑prove the roadmap
• Provide clear, timely delivery reporting, status updates, risks, and dependency management
• Build strong relationships with product, solution, and business stakeholders
• Support alignment with organisational delivery standards and governance
• Champion and contribute to the wider Agile transformation journey

• Improving delivery predictability and efficiency
• Creating a high-performing environment where product teams thrive
• Driving adoption of Agile principles across the Workday suite
• Ensuring robust stakeholder engagement and communication
• Embedding a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement
• Aligning tools (e.g., Jira, Dev Ops, Confluence) to optimise team performance

• Strong Workday expertise (HCM, integrations; AI agents/Sana knowledge advantageous)
• Proven experience in Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe/LeSS)
• Strong facilitation skills across workshops, ceremonies, and product-level planning
• Experience coaching teams in Agile and product-led ways of working
• Ability to build and maintain delivery roadmaps
• Strong experience in impediment identification and removal
• Expertise in delivery metrics, flow measurement, and reporting
• Experience optimising toolsets such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Confluence, Lucidchart

• Agile Mindset & Servant Leadership – Leading through influence, empowering teams
• Delivery Focus – Balancing speed, quality, and business value
• Problem Solving – Anticipating challenges and making informed decisions
• Stakeholder Management – Building effective relationships across functions
• Collaboration & Teamwork – Creating an inclusive, high-performing environment
• Continuous Improvement – Encouraging innovation and iterative change
• Resilience & Adaptability – Thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment

• Work on a critical enterprise platform that impacts the entire organisation
• Play a key role in a major…