Agile Delivery Manager
Agile Delivery Manager
Streaming
Full Time/ Fixed Term: 12 months
Office location: White City, London
Hybrid working - Usually 1-2 days per week in the London office
Hiring range: £50,000 - £65,000
Your work matters to millions.
Shaping culture is in the DNA of ITV. So, it's not surprising that you'll find us in every home in the UK, our productions are famous all over the world and we're at the forefront of the digital streaming revolution.
When you join us, you enter a fun working environment. With opportunities to learn, to grow and make a real difference. Small enough that your impact's felt in the business, but big enough that your impact reaches millions of people.
Come develop your skills, change TV and the course of your career. Don't just watch it. Be part of it. Join ITV.
Your impact sends ripples.
The teamAs a Media and Entertainment brand at heart, we are people-focused and place a huge emphasis on innovation. Our culture is everything to us and our product teams power the platforms for our stars on screen to shape the future.
Here at ITV, we are undergoing a major digital transformation drive, across all of our platforms and on-demand services. With the rapid shift in industry trends, from VOD streaming to programmatic AI and ever-changing consumer tastes, accelerating the demand for high-quality, high-volume content delivery at scale, we are looking to leverage our long-standing reputation as the largest commercial TV network in the UK in order to create a technology-first media platform that caters to an increasingly diverse worldwide audience.
The roleWe are looking for someone who is passionate about building high-performing teams. Agile Delivery Managers within Viewer Experience & Streaming tech work across a range of cross-functional work streams to deliver value to consumers of ITV's digital propositions, which includes ITVX and ITV News.
Responsibilities:
- Coach, motivate and empower teams through the adoption of agile values, principles and good practices.
- Help build trust and transparency within teams by promoting a collaborative and communicative environment.
- Champion an agile mindset to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Be a positive change agent to coach our teams to new or improved ways of working
- Oversee delivery for 2 teams. Teams might be formed of fully cross functional viewer journey teams and/or technical platform domain teams.
- Facilitate team and cross-team events.
- Work with Product Managers and stakeholders to ensure transparent goals and priorities.
- Help identify and remove impediments.
- Use tools like Jira and Trello to help teams plan, coordinate and optimise flow.
- Contribute towards ITV's Agile Delivery community, sharing knowledge and experiences to help build capabilities across the organisation.
Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)
- Demonstrable prior experience as an Agile Delivery Manager, Agile Coach or Scrum Master.
- Well-versed in building trust and coaching teams toward self-management and cross-functional behaviours.
- Interest and understanding of various agile frameworks, methods and good practices.
- Capable of managing work and dependencies across multiple internal and external partner teams.
- Experience of using empiricism to drive continuous improvement in planning, forecasting and predictability.
- Strong coaching and facilitation skills.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholder demands.
ITV is for everyone.
ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people. As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, we'll guarantee to take you to the next stage* (minimum criteria above).
We're happy to discuss any support/personalisation you may need during our application and selection process as part of our reasonable adjustments. Drop us a line if you require anything at talkingcareers@itv.com.
Find out more about applying with a disability.
* There may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Because those who make an impact deserve to be rewarded for it.
ITV offers some great rewards and benefits including:
- Flexible working with a range of options
- Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Competitive pension contribution
- Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
- Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life