Calling all contract Agile Delivery Leads. We have an outside of IR35 contract available

We need an expert Agile Delivery Manager, ideally with a passion for Software as a Medical Device. We need someone to join our client on the cutting edge of precision medicine, developing their digital solutions for patients and doctors as an urgent interim to help with their exciting and market leading products.

Pharma, healthcare, biotech or life science tech backgrounds in SaaS and Agile delivery are really help. We can potentially consider talented Agile delivery experts from other regulated industries.

Primary responsibilities

- Organise the Software Development team to focus them on the key activities needed to meet product and project goals.

- Knows Scrum and/or Kanban inside out, and lives the spirit of the practices as well as the fundamental mechanics.

- Responsible for running or organising all the key delivery ceremonies, including stand ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, three amigos (etc).

- Performs day-to-day management of the "Board", ie the current view of key delivery activities (typically a sprint backlog of stories in Jira).

- Protects the delivery team from extraneous interference, and supports the team in working out how to effectively deliver. Has overall responsibility for identifying blockers, and acting to unblock the team.

- Coaches the team and key business stakeholders to make sure they understand why key activities are required - helps the team to avoid cargo-cult processes.

- Organises and runs team retrospectives to help the team to continuously improve.

- Translates the product roadmap into short and medium term goals for the team to deliver. Strips away noise that could interfere with the team's ability to deliver.

Secondary responsibilities

- Ensures the team follows our Quality Management System, and understands the importance of the QMS in being able to reach the market. Knows what is most important in terms of QMS activities and documentation.

- Collects delivery metrics to support business decision making and tracking.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

- Minimum 2:1 in a relevant degree

- Experience of being an Associate Delivery Manager, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or Agile Coach, working hands-on in an agile, cross-functional product team

- Experience of working with Product Managers or Product Owners, Engineers and Designers in a collaborative environment

- Able to give examples of where you have supported a product team to deliver using a range of agile tools and techniques

COMPETENCIES AND PERSONALITY

- Action-oriented - wants to deliver more than anything else

- Has a sixth-sense for where significant blockers or inefficiencies lie, and acts to remove them.

- Understands technology, and ideally has a background as a developer, BA, or product person building software.

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