Junior Delivery Manager

About Two CirclesWe are Two Circles. We are a Sports and Entertainment Marketing business. We grow audiences and revenues by knowing fans best. We work with clients to understand and influence what their fans are doing — the way fans spend their money, the events they attend, the channels they respond to, the content they watch and more. We use this understanding to help our clients grow their audiences and revenues — direct to consumer and business to business. Our platforms and services are trusted by over 900 clients globally, including the English Premier League, Red Bull, UEFA, VISA, the NFL, Nike and Amazon. We are almost 1000 people, based out of 14 offices, delivering work for sports and entertainment businesses of all shapes and sizes all over the world.

What You Will DoAs part of our ongoing growth, we are expanding our Data Ops and Engineering team, innovating our technology stack and maturing our current ways of working. This mid-level Agile Delivery Manager role is critical in driving this innovation forward as well as ensuring we continue to deliver high quality work for our clients. The Agile Delivery Manager is responsible for leading and implementing Agile principles while working alongside Developers to ensure teams understand and benefit from these methodologies. They will act as a facilitator to remove blockers and enable ease of working using Agile principles, as well as ensuring successful delivery by the technology team. This role will work closely with client facing teams to ensure understanding of high impact and detailed requirements. You will have an in-depth understanding of Agile principles and practices and technical capability for identifying and prioritizing the most critical areas of the delivery.

Your main duties and responsibilities

Understand objectives of Client Projects and the role our Technology team play in them, ensuring we work together to achieve them successfully

Use your experience of high-level planning and your detail-orientated approach to guide and manage your team towards success. Oversee and keep up to date all team duties, ensuring delivery milestones are met and the team is proactive and fully engaged

Maintain and develop positive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues across our agency, collaborate with them to define and refine requirements, backlogs and priorities, keeping them up to date on delivery at all stages

Support and empower multi-disciplined teams ensuring they are motivated, collaborative and working well together

Maintain and successful delivery of a roadmap of work in accordance with business priorities

Identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies ensuring delivery to agreed timescales

Facilitate, coordinate and manage SCRUM ceremonies such as planning, refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives

Encourage and foster a culture of continuous improvement, championing an agile mindset across the team and into our wider business

Oversee successful delivery into production, identifying obstacles and helping the team to overcome them

Lead, influence and coach others, including those more senior, on the implementation and adoption of best practice Agile methodologies

Excellent facilitation skills and change management experience

Great interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for Agile

Requirements

2 years experience in delivery

Proven experience leading delivery within software development or technical engineering for multiple concurrent clients, customers or stakeholders

Working with multi-disciplined matrix teams

Significant knowledge of introducing and coaching Agile methodologies and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and Lean

Hands-on knowledge configuring and using tools that support agile and collaborative working, e.g. Jira, Confluence, project planning software

Good understanding of the holistic lifecycle of Software Development and previous experience of implementing DevOps practices within an organization

Understand and advocate DevOps culture and squad mentality in SDLC

Excellent facilitation skills and change management experience

Great interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for Agile

An analytical mindset with a passion for data

Experience with the following would also be beneficial

Technical understanding of BI solutions and a Cloud Data stack

Experience of, or a keen interest in, the business of sport

BenefitsWe offer a benefits package to suit you and your lifestyle. Out of a core monthly budget, you can choose your own comprehensive benefit package.

Renowned Team Days often throughout the year

Summer Away Days

23 standard days of holiday (+ 1 Birthday, +2 for a ‘Big Life Event'' and +1 Admin Day), closure of office over Christmas (plus Bank Holidays)

Discretionary Bonus based on company performance

Performance Reviews every 6 months with discretionary salary increases

Private healthcare (Vitality) and/or Health Care Plan (Medicash)

Mobile phone contribution

Sport Challenge contribution

Gym membership contribution

2x annual kit drops

Two Circles is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Management and Manufacturing

Industries

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