Senior Agile Delivery Manager

About The Role

Hippo 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 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.

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
• Line management of colleagues within your profession

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

As well as a competitive salary which we're transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 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

We're dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant.

Hi, we're Hippo.

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data informed evidence, human centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

Hippo locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We are looking for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. You may be required to work on site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and you will need to be open/flexible to travel. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one.