Overview

Position Title: Head of Agile Delivery

Company: ITV

Location: Croydon, UK

Job Description:

We are looking for someone who is passionate about building high performing teams and driving change throughout the department. You will be reporting into a Lead Delivery Manager.

Responsibilities:

  • Coach, motivate and empower teams by applying the most appropriate Agile and Lean values and principals
  • Help build trust and transparency within team(s) by promoting a collaborative and communicative environment
  • Champion an Agile development mindset and help team(s) identify process improvements and drive continuous development
  • Facilitate Agile Ceremonies – Planning, Demos and Retrospectives etc – with the teams
  • Work with Product Managers and Stakeholders on team(s) goals and priorities
  • Identify opportunities to increase throughput without compromising on quality of work
  • Proactive and use initiative to remove impediments
  • Track work using JIRA or Trello ensuring good discipline is kept with lane policies and understand flow
  • Contribute towards ITVs Agile Delivery function sharing knowledge and experiences to help build the capability

Requirements:

  • Experience building high performing agile teams promoting Lean & Agile values, principles and practices
  • Good understanding of Agile ways of working – techniques and practices
  • Managing work across multiple teams when dependencies span across teams or with external suppliers
  • Demonstrable experience of planning, forecasting and using empiricism/team metrics to drive continuous improvement
  • Able to facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo
  • Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use
  • Experience with Coaching and Facilitation
  • Agile Coach experience
  • Respected certifications in Scrum and/or Kanban

About ITV

It’s an exciting time to join ITV. With the largest commercial family of channels in the UK and with our global footprint growing, we’re about to take not only our business, but also broadcasting, as we know it, to a whole new level.