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About the Role
The Wellcome Trust is seeking a Delivery Manager to join the Digital & Technology department, specifically within the Strategy & Governance team. This role involves matrix working with various project, product, and workstream teams, focusing on delivering value to users through agile methodologies and managing the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Work with technical projects, product, or workstream teams to deliver frequent value to users incrementally.
- Shape ways of working across all aspects of the project lifecycle.
- Work closely with subject matter experts to set goals and help the team deliver towards them.
- Identify blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them.
- Tailor agile methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards.
- Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance ways of working in product, workstream, and technology teams.
- Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication, coordination, conflict management, resolution, and collaboration with other departments.
- Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery.
- Act as the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates.
- Support informed goal-setting techniques, enabling teams to work with sprint goals and OKRs.
- Utilize a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs.
Requirements
- Previous experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master in a digital & technology environment.
- Experience working collaboratively with subject matter experts, product managers, designers, user researchers, and software developers.
- Diplomatic and tactful approach to challenges.
- Experience evaluating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Analytical and creative approach to problem-solving.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members.
- Proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties.
- Experience working as a delivery manager or scrum master delivering data & digital products, programmes or workstreams in digital & technology environments.
- Practical experience applying agile concepts such as Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience working with OKRs or similar goal setting frameworks.
- Experience working with different types of agile product teams with varying maturity and complexity.
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum
- Kanban
- OKRs
- Leadership
- Team management
- Stakeholder management
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Conflict management
Location
- Remote
- Face to face
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Salary/Compensations
- £54,400 – £75,700
Benefits
- Flexible working environment
About the Company
- The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation.
- We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.
- We are committed to spending £16bn in the ten years to 2032, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing.
- We are taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do.
- We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive.
- We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles.
- We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone.
- This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.