Senior Agile Delivery Manager in Birmingham

Want to lead and deliver change that matters? Are you looking to turn big ideas into big results? Do you want to be a part of a supportive Agile community to help you grow in your career? If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We're a growing tech consultancy that creates user‐centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose‐driven businesses.

As an Agile Delivery Manager, you'll tackle challenges and guide teams, adding structure, assurance and energy to complex projects that make a difference to millions of people in the UK.

The role

• Collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients' strategic outcomes.
• Facilitate people's work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams.
• Lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients.
• Create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.
• Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Requirements

• This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their normal daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester.
• As attendance at these sites is a routine part of the role's working pattern and involves frequent local travel, travel expenses are not covered.
• Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
• SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed.
• Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process.
• If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.
• You're comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction.

Responsibilities

• Distribute work and set milestones for others to achieve.
• Simplify complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team.
• Create a team charter, agree on ways of working and collaboratively iterate throughout the project.
• Organise your team and its ceremonies, encourage team engagement and self‐organisation.
• Connect team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions.
• Influence your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project's vision.
• Select communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics.
• Create and facilitate workshops.
• Foster transparency and alignment through building trust.

Essential Skills

• Be proactive, and can work autonomously.
• Challenge appropriately and resolve conflict.
• Help others to successfully work through challenges.
• Support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships.
• Contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work.

Desirable Experience

• The Service Standard (UK Government).
• Use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools.
• Calculating metrics and using outcomes to effectively manage the team.
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management.

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £60,000 - £66,000.

What we offer

A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You'll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days' holiday, and access to 3 annual "life happens" days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

Where you'll work

This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We're happy to make adjustments to support your needs.