Senior Delivery Lead

About Us

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

• Fixed-term contract role of 12 months with a possible extension
• Location - Sydney or Melbourne
• Hybrid ways of working

The Senior Delivery Lead role is central to the running of multiple squads to set them up for success in prioritising, planning and executing on transformation initiatives using Scrum or Kanban frameworks. They enable the squads through removing any impediments while facilitating transparency of all the work, progress of sprint goals and capacity to interested stakeholders as well as to the squads themselves.

The role is also responsible for ensuring the squads adhere to agile methodologies and principles and involves organising and facilitating agile ceremonies such as daily scrums, backlog refinement, sprint planning and retrospectives. On occasion, they will also be expected to assist other Delivery Leads or squads in establishing best practices and agile ways of working wherever coaching is required.

This role will operate at an operational and strategic level to:

• Deliver the roadmap using agile methodology in partnership with business stakeholders
• Partner with your product manager and our chapter leads to build and develop a cross‑functional squad
• Work closely with external teams to plan dependencies and releases of the product
• Deliver products to customers to improve their experience across digital channels they interact with

Sound good? Read on.

• Responsible for application of the agile & scrum values and principles in day‑to‑day routine
• Responsible for ensuring full participation of all squad members in the delivery of value
• Play a lead in the planning and facilitation of tribal agile ceremonies of Showcase & Big Room Planning (BRP)
• Responsible for the application and facilitation of the Continuous Improvement practices and team mindset
• Responsible for removing squads blockers with support from the Product Manager or management if needed to ensure planned sprints are delivered as expected
• Responsible for ensuring team norms are understood and followed
• Ensures continual improvement practices are applied and agreed actions are implemented
• Mentor and Coach the team to be empowered and instill a proactive, positive and innovative team culture
• Work closely with Product Managers on prioritisation of the squad backlog to maximise value delivered
• Responsible for ongoing health of the squad, ensuring that it is set up to deliver end‑to‑end outcomes, providing coaching & feedback, ensuring resources are planned effectively and are fully utilised
• Ensures that the squads have engaged with business stakeholders (internal customers) insights and feedback during the delivery of their work. A clear link between insights and action development should be visible.
• Works with other product managers to ensure that their squads' backlog is prioritised appropriately to meet cross‑team dependencies
• Works closely with the squads to remove impediments and “roadblocks” for the squad
• Decides whether the work the squads have delivered is ready for release, works with the squads to define criteria for work to be released and is accountable for the quality of the squad’s released work
• Where necessary, support vendor selections as part of the decision to build or buy product solutions

• Knowledge, understanding and experience of working with Data and/or AI squads
• Extensive Experience working with commercial partners in a complex, matrix organisation
• Extensive Experience working in an agile organisation or with cross‑functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Develops teams that set and deliver to high standards, drive innovation and create value autonomously,…