Senior Agile Delivery Manager

About

The Role 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 Intermediate 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.]Your

role in a nutshell:

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

Skills and experience that you need 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

What makes us great

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

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo 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 providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo At…