Junior Delivery Manager

Reach’s new customer value strategy puts our customers and their experience at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for a Junior Delivery Manager to help us achieve this by ensuring we deliver great value software, on time and to budget.

Reporting to the Head of Delivery, you’ll work closely with Development and QA Leads to take delivery ownership of the requirements set out by the Product Managers. You’ll lead a cross-functional team of engineers supporting the team in the adoption of agile practices, planning software projects and overall making everything run smoothly.

Role Location

This role can be based remotely from home, and we are therefore open to candidates based across the UK.

Job Description

Although this isn’t a line management role you will be responsible for the team management of one or more Agile software teams.

We’re looking for someone who understands how engineering works. You’ll have either come from a development / engineering background or have strong experience of leading highly technical teams.

You will be responsible for fostering a great culture by being a strong role model and demonstrating great people leadership. You must have a continuous improvement mindset and be constantly looking for opportunities for improvement.

You’ll assist us in recruiting and maintaining the best talent in the industry by assessing CVs, assisting with interviews and supporting your team members with career progression.

Qualifications

• A working knowledge of Agile methodologies.
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.
• You are comfortable working with stakeholders to resolve problems as they emerge and ensure successful project outcomes.
• A confident and articulate communicator capable of inspiring strong collaboration within an organisation and between teams.
• Confident at managing multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• A self-starter with a can-do, will-do attitude
• Obsessed with the customer and deepening customer loyalty
• Previous experience of delivering software projects using Agile methodologies would be beneficial.

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including:

• 25 days holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years service with Reach, you'll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional days leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you'll be eligible after just six months employment
• As one of the UKs top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone's invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 assistance programme for you and your nearest and dearest,
• Awesome career opportunities - you'll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels
• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and well match contributions up to 6%