About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for Intermediate Delivery Managers to join our growing consultancy. Delivery Managers work with our clients to embed agile ways of working and support multi-disciplined teams to focus on the priorities to deliver the associated product or services. You’ll also run ceremonies including stand‑ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and show‑and‑tells.
Your role in a nutshell
- Help to build and maintain the team on‑site, ensuring they are motivated, happy, and working well together.
- Embed agile ways of working and run the ceremonies including stand‑ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and show‑and‑tells.
- Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them.
- Facilitate and track team risks and dependencies.
- Help the team to focus on the priorities to deliver the product or service.
- Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team.
- Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques.
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders.
About The Candidate
People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close‑knitted community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common‑sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.
Qualifications
- Experience delivering digital projects in agile teams.
- Knowledge and experience of Agile and scrum working practices (SCRUM/Lean).
- Comfortable leading multidisciplinary teams of various configurations and sizes.
- Knowledge and experience of collaboration and project management tools.
- Understand user‑centred design principles and practices.
- Experience working with a range of stakeholders.
Benefits
- Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%).
- 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays.
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts.
- Critical illness cover.
- Life assurance and death in service cover.
- Volunteer days.
- Cycle‑to‑work scheme for avid cyclists.
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme.
- Season ticket loans.
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
- Flexible benefits scheme: private health cover, private dental cover, additional company pension contributions, additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days), wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, tree planting.
Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo
At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio‑economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.
Hippo Locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London, and Bristol. Candidates need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices and may need to travel on‑site for client projects several days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000.
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