Is your delivery methodology based on an agile approach or a combination of agile approaches...? Which agile approach is your favourite one?

Whichever one it is, we’re looking for an experienced Delivery Manager who’s really into agile, to lead our expert teams behind a massive mission; to inform, educate and entertain.

The BBC has achieved the highest ever global audience. This brings the BBC’s global audience close to the 500 million people target for 2022, which the BBC is on track to exceed in its 100th anniversary year. The BBC’s audience has more than doubled in the last ten years.

You’ll empower our multi-disciplinary digital teams to design, build, maintain and improve products like BBC iPlayer, BBC Sounds, BBC News and BBC Sports for our global audience.

Role Responsibility

We are BBC Datalab and we use data and machine learning to build recommendation engines that serve millions of audience members. 

As our new Senior Agile Delivery Manager you’ll be a part of our cross-functional leadership team and running delivery for all your squads and helping us to scale-up machine learning within well-loved BBC products so be prepared to get your hands into the nitty gritty.

You mitigate against micro-management. You’ll create an environment of psychological safety for your multi-disciplinary team and enable the work, and not impose how it's done. You’re an expert in getting the best out of experts.

You foster an environment of continuous validation with Agile standards of respect, openness, and courage.

You make your team’s work visible to stakeholders. You’ll arrange demos from user researchers, designers and developers. You give your team the chance to share progress, so we can get iterative feedback, consider solutions and suggestions long before the story reaches production.

We want to empower you to create your own career story and journey and get plugged into our thriving Agile Delivery community. Whether you're a scrum master, an IT delivery manager, an agile coach, or something else, we want you to use your creativity, experience and expertise to solve your team's problems, minimise noise and enable smooth running.

And we’re a learning organisation, so you’ll help our community grow by coaching and mentoring some of our more junior practitioners, as well as developing your own skills and growing your career.

The Ideal Candidate

• You’ve got the right priorities: Encouraging a culture of psychological safety in teams, managing team dynamics. Actively contribute to enabling teams to work in a better way
• You’re a steady hand: Experience of delivering IT software with an iterative approach in multiple phases
• You’ve got your finger on the pulse: You’re an active listener and can give clear, actionable feedback, allowing you to build trust, manage complex team dynamics, and motivate everyone to work towards a common goal.
• You embody the wisdom of a sage: Your influencing skills will allow you to bridge specialisms and navigate ambiguity.

While previous experience delivering data and machine learning projects isn’t required, we are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic to learn about the technical aspects of our work.

Package Description

Band: D
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London or Glasgow Hybrid working

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression â€“ the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities â€“ our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.