Senior Agile Delivery Manager

About the Role

Hippo is recruiting Senior Delivery Managers to join our growing consultancy. Delivery Managers work with clients to embed agile ways of working and support multi‑disciplined teams to focus on the priorities to deliver associated product or services. You’ll also run ceremonies including stand‑ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and show and tells.

• Help to build and maintain the team on‑site, making sure that they are motivated, happy and working well together.
• 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.
• Line management of colleagues within your profession.

• Delivering complex digital projects.
• Agile project management and working practices (SCRUM/Lean/DSDM/APMG).
• Leading teams of various configurations and sizes, from a fully resourced consultancy team to running hybrid consultancy/client teams.
• Collaboration and project management tools.
• Understanding of user‑centred design principles and practices.

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 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.
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme.
• Season ticket loans.
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions.
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  • private health cover
  • private dental cover
  • additional company pension contributions
  • additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  • wellbeing contribution
  • charity contributions
  • tree planting

At Hippo, we are dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent individuals and people with disabilities. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. We continually strive to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. Candidates should be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices or be willing to travel for client projects. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k.