18 Oct
Jaguar Land Rover
Manchester
Job description
Manchester
In this role, you're part of the driving force behind JLR’s success. Helping steer operational excellence across our corporate teams, from governance to talent you’ll be at the epicentre of the business.
Your contributions will transform our iconic brands and shape the future of modern luxury. Become part of a global business and create exceptional.
WHAT TO EXPECT
As a Chapter Lead in Agile Delivery, we need you to deliver practices of our Global teams, and in turn drive delivery assurance for the modern, innovative software solutions in our Portfolio.
You will be required to consistently balance the strategic vision with attention to detail.
You will bring domain-specific Agile expertise to the professional development of our team members; mentoring, developing skills, managing performance, supporting recruitment, and knowledge sharing.
This role sets guidelines, provides best practice examples and guides the professional capability development of the people within our onshore, offshore and partner teams.
You will also play a pivotal role in supporting and developing the practices and relationships in our partner site in India.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Provide Agile Delivery Chapter leadership, champion a culture of growth mindset, self-leadership and development, mentoring chapter members across internal and partner teams, based in the UK, Europe and India
- People and line-management, with the ability to assess and communicate to a broad range of experiences and cultures
- Lead by example, actively hands on in agile delivery
- Guide the teams on how to get the work done in a consistently high-quality manner,
introduce and maturing the Agile practices throughout the Digital delivery functions
- Create and evolve frameworks, standard, practices and governance relevant for the Agile Delivery chapter - including, setting guidelines, providing best practice examples, and the professional capability development of people in the team
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
People and line-management, with the ability to assess and communicate to a broad range of experiences and cultures You must be an Inspirational Leader.
You must provide a compelling cause for your community
- Specialist skills in agile delivery standards and practices with credible previous experience in SDLC delivery roles, in practice
- Product Thinking, DevOps Delivery, Systems Thinking
- Technical expertise in relevant approaches and technologies (JIRA, Confluence, Planview, OKRs)
- You need people skills. You are working with people all day, every day
- Strong relationship management skills
▶️ Chapter Lead Agile Delivery
🖊️ Jaguar Land Rover
📍 Manchester