Agile Delivery Manager

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
24 months
Full time
35 hours per week
£54,007.96 - £76,246.53
Hybrid - home based and Birmingham
Corporate Functions

The Law Society is looking to recruit an Agile Delivery Manager to ensure timely and orderly delivery of IT Projects by ensuring the right methods, resources, suppliers and management are involved in a truly Agile way.

You will manage the delivery of a portfolio of strategic and complex agile and waterfall projects simultaneously, ensuring successful end-to-end delivery in terms of time, cost, quality and benefits, and ensuring their successful delivery into business-as-usual support.

You will ensure methodological consistency and best-practice, especially with regard to the application of Agile Scrum in delivering digital and CRM projects, providing knowledge, advice and guidance to delivery streams at all levels in methodological adoption and implementation.

You will also manage delivery streams (through building relationships with scrum masters and project managers), ensuring they have realistic plans, well defined and prioritised backlogs, successful relationships with suppliers, and a methodology and approach that is likely to succeed and bring about best-practice IT delivery.

Must have:

  • Proven experience of agile delivery management across complex portfolios of digital and non-digital projects
  • Experience of waterfall delivery management
  • Significant experience of Scrum and Prince2 methodologies, and proven application of these to successful delivery
  • Strong experience of methods, tools and planning used in digital and non-digital IT projects, including the lifecycle of customer-centred design, agile procurement and delivery.
  • Strong experience in all aspects of IT and systems delivery, transition and management, both of back-office and customer-facing systems.
  • Excellent understanding of the IT supplier market, and of best practice in managing supplier involvement in both agile and waterfall projects
  • Experience of managing financial budgets of up to £10m in total
  • Experience of managing matrix teams including third party suppliers and digital specialists
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, and understanding of strategic and tactical business change needs in IT projects
  • Excellent coaching, influencing, negotiating and interpersonal skills
  • Strong experience of managing teams of varied experience levels to develop and succeed
  • Knowledge of MS Office suite to intermediate level including MS Project and MS Visio

To apply for this role, please submit a CV and cover letter clearly demonstrating how you meet the requirements for the role. 

We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Vacancy closing date: 16/12/2018, 23:55
The Law Society is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.