Agile Delivery Manager

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Lead and manage multiple cross-functional projects, ensuring clear objectives, timelines, and deliverables are met
• - Develop project plans, timelines, and roadmaps; monitor project progress and ensure adherence to deadlines
• - Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project execution
• - Collaborate with leadership and stakeholders to define project scope and objectives that align with business goals
• - Communicate with stakeholders, including team members, clients, and other stakeholders, to ensure that everyone is informed about the progress of the delivery
• - Conduct post-project reviews to capture lessons learned and implement improvements for future projects
• - Facilitate daily scrum, weekly story refinement sessions and retrospective meetings
• - Capture using metrics and reporting to help guide continuous improvement
• - Help the Product Manager keep the product backlog in good shape and ready for work
• - Assist your teams with improving internal/external communication, collaboration and radiating information

Required Skills

• - 5+ years of experience managing cross-functional projects, preferably in a global or distributed team environment
• - A solid understanding of Agile and Lean Principles and values as well as knowledge of Scrum & Kanban theory, rules and practices
• - Understand the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development to understand team needs
• - Know the value of continuous improvement (kaizen!), visualisation and metrics
• - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the mindset of a servant leader
• - Enjoy collaborating with diverse personality types, a great teammate and a team builder
• - Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization
• - Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with teams spread across multiple time zones
• - Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Linear)
• - Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing requirements

Benefits

• - Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• - Lunch is on us - with catering in our Lisbon, Copenhagen and London offices or a monthly lunch allowance paid directly together with your salary in other markets
• - Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• - Flexibility/remote working options
• - Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• - Access to free mental health and wellbeing support through MyndUp
• - Access to LinkedIn Learning
• - Paid parental leave