Agile Delivery Manager

Role: Agile Delivery Manager

Duration: 12 months + Possible extension

Location: London (W12) Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Language needed: English (C1)

Eligibility: British citezen or ILR

Rate: Outside IR35

B2B Contract / Freelance / Contract

Scope:

Seeking an Agile Delivery Manager to support the delivery of strategic technology and systems transformation initiatives across its media and content technology landscape.

You will play a key role in enabling agile teams to deliver effectively while ensuring alignment with broader programme governance, planning, and reporting requirements within a modern broadcast and streaming environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate agile delivery activities across technology and transformation programmes within digital and content ecosystem.
• Facilitate Discovery workshops, requirement definition sessions, and cross-functional planning activities with business and technology stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and Project Managers to define scope, prioritise workstreams, and convert business outcomes into structured delivery backlogs.
• Embed within delivery teams throughout Build and Close phases, ensuring effective sprint cadence, team collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Apply agile methodologies pragmatically, adapting Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid delivery approaches to suit programme and stakeholder needs.
• Translate agile team backlogs and sprint activity into clear delivery roadmaps, milestone plans, and programme-level reporting for senior leadership.
• Bridge the gap between agile team execution and programme governance, ensuring transparency, alignment, and effective communication.
• Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, blockers, and cross-team coordination activities.
• Support a collaborative, delivery-focused culture across product, engineering, operations, and business teams.

Skill needed:

• 8+ years’ experience in Agile Delivery Management within technology, digital, media, or systems transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of agile principles, delivery frameworks, and iterative ways of working.
• Proven experience supporting Discovery phases and facilitating agile workshops with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working closely with software engineering and product teams in agile delivery environments.
• Strong capability in backlog management, sprint planning, delivery tracking, and stakeholder reporting.
• Ability to communicate effectively with delivery teams, programme leadership, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with agile delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or equivalent.

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