Senior Agile Delivery Manager

Job Description

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for a Senior Delivery Manager responsible for delivering products, services and workstreams of varying sizes, maturity and at different stages of the lifecycle (from discoveries through to live). Salary between £48,981 to 65,600 (dependent on competencyand location) plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff or Darlington.DBT work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformation which supports export and investment strategies. They use digital tools to allow UK businesses to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising from delivering trade agreements,helping to facilitate UK exports as well as working on digital projects to support inward UK investment from abroad.Delivery Managers in DBT work within a community of practice, supporting each other to improve agile practices across the department and deliver in line with the departments priorities of trade, investment, export promotion and support the UKs agenda fora Global Britain.This role is in the Licencing for International Trade and Enterprise LITE programme to deliver a new licensing platform for exporting and importing strategically controlled goods.You will be an experiencedSenior Delivery Manager who in your day-to-day role will:

• Help build the right environment for the team to deliver, collaborate, communicate, and focus on the most important outcomes
• Improve processes and remove obstacles within the team and outside of it, iterating the existing approaches and facilitating new ways of doing things
• Ensure the team has the right set of skills and provide direction on how that should change as the product is developed
• Manage dependencies and risks across DBT and with other government departments to remove blockers or obstacles to delivery
• Have a great understanding of agile practices and be able to adapt them to suit the team you are working with and guide continual improvement
• Line manage, mentor and coach other members of the professional community, your team, and possibly colleagues outside of DDaT

Essential Skills and Experience: You will need to be someone who relishes a challenge, and has demonstrable skills and experience of:

• Agile and Lean practices in a cross functional team, with an emphasis on user-centred design
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to support with governance/continuous improvement
• Ability to balance business needs against cost/time to build

Desirable Skills and Experience:These are not necessary, but it would be ideal if you had experience of:

• Commercial Management
• Financial Management

In return, you can expect the following benefits:

• Flexible hybrid working from London, Darlington or Cardiff
• Salary of £48,981 to £65,600 including annual allowance depending on location and experience
• Extensive learning and development tailored to your role, with budget for training, qualifications or professional membership of a recognised body
• An environment with flexible, hybrid working options such as condensed hours
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Annual leave starting at 25 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 30 days with service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• Employee benefits programme offering retail discounts, a season ticket loan for public transport, and a cycle to work scheme

If you are an experienced Senior Delivery Manager looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite at Inspire People in complete confidencefor further information. Further Information: This role requires SC clearance, a condition of which is to have been present in the UK for 3 out of the past 5 years.