09 Oct
Wellcome
Great Britain
Salary: £68,612
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Contract: Permanent
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy, and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won't be solved by science alone.
We are looking for a Delivery Manager to join our team on a permanent basis.
Where in Wellcome will I be working?
You will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager. In this role, you will primarily matrix work with teams within the Digital & Technology department. We currently have eight product and workstream teams, who's work consists of public-facing websites, Tableau dashboards, infrastructure, research content search engines and a bespoke CRM system for all our grants. We work primarily with agile to deliver on our products and projects.
What will I be doing?
You will work with one of our product or workstream teams to deliver frequent value our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the product lifecycle. You will work closely with product managers and workstream leads to set out goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals. You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them. You will also be working with the rest of the delivery team and where appropriate,
championing our ways of working across the organisation.
As a Delivery Manager, you will:
- Have a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards
- Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance product team ways of working
- Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments
- Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery
- Be the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates
- Support Product Managers with informed goal setting, having a familiarity of sprint goal and OKR setting techniques
- Have a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs
- Contribute to a diverse and inclusive culture across the organisation, collaborating across departments.
Is this job for me?
We are looking for someone who:
- Has previous 2-4 years experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master
- Is experienced working collaboratively with product managers, designers, user researchers and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully
- Is experienced evalutating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
- Has an analytical and creative approach to problem-solving
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve goals and OKRs
- Proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties
- Is committed to EDI, ensuring an inclusive approach is taken into product and workstream delivery
Interview Dates W/C 4th November
You can view the full job description on the website
Our Hybrid Way of Working
We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. We are currently working 2 days per week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays)
from our Euston Road offices (as part of our hybrid Ways of Working) with the remaining 3 days working either remotely or in the office.
From 1st September 2024 we will move to 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.
Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do
Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone.
This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at .
▶️ Agile Delivery Manager
🖊️ Wellcome
📍 Great Britain