19 Oct
Jaguar Land Rover
Manchester
REQ ID: 125863
JOB TITLE: Chapter Lead Agile Delivery
SALARY: £70,000 - £80,000
POSTING START DATE: 17/10/2024
POSTING END DATE: 31/10/2024
LOCATION: 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
SO WHY US?
Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees more choice and flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.
We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all.
We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.
Applicants from all backgrounds are welcome. If you're unsure that you meet the full criteria of a role - but you're interested in where it could take you - we still encourage you to apply. We believe in people's ability to grow and develop within their role - it's what makes living the exceptional with soul possible.
JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.
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