Agile Delivery Manager

The Role

Agile Delivery Manager

We're looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our Content Supply Technology team.

Agile professionals across ITV are accountable for helping to validate whether we are working on the right goals in the right way, or whether we might benefit from pivoting in a different direction. Our Agile Delivery Managers help achieve this through coaching multiple teams toward effective planning and predictable, iterative delivery.

The team

As 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.

Our product teams are involved in all aspects of the content supply chain at ITV. From scheduling our channels, managing rights and catalogue information, to delivering hit shows to ITVX and partner platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Work hands-on with multiple teams to champion 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.
• Facilitate team and cross-team events.
• Work with Product Managers and stakeholders to ensure transparent goals and priorities.
• Identify and help remove impediments.
• Contribute towards ITV's Agile Delivery community, sharing knowledge and experiences to help build capabilities across the organisation.
• Leverage tools like Jira to help teams plan, coordinate and optimise flow.

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• A minimum of 3 years experience across Scrum Master and/or Agile Delivery Manager positions.
• 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 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.

Other things we're looking for (desirable criteria)

• Professional, industry recognised accreditations, in Scrum (PSM/CSM), Kanban (KMP1/PK1), coaching and facilitation (ICP-ACC/ICP-ATF).