Agile Delivery Lead (FTC)

at  Dunelm

ABOUT US

We’re the UK’s number one choice for homewares – we’re ambitious about our brand, about being a good company, and about profitable growth.
With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 50,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 170+ stores. We operate the UK’s largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds. We’re also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our ‘The Edited Life’ ranges.
Our renewed purpose is ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.’ And we have three ambitions: ‘ambitious about our brand’ ambitious about being a good company’, and ‘ambitious about profitable growth’. We’re focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

We are looking for someone who is passionate about inspiring and coaching teams to achieve critical business outcomes and deliverables. Taking ownership and accountability with delivery focus, building and leading high performing teams while driving change throughout the department.
Within our site experience space, we are focused on making shopping more enjoyable for our customers through providing them with a frictionless, seamless online experience.
Join our Tech Team and you’ll not only be part of stimulating projects that are making an impact across our business, you’ll be somewhere you can build a long-term career that always promises to challenge and excite.
Find your happy place.
We recruit people from all types of backgrounds, who share our entrepreneurial, hands-on approach to work. We are committed to creating a full inclusive environment that is representative of our customers and locations. We recognise the value and importance in inclusion and diversity and welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of sex, age, race, religion, disability, neurodiversity, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background, or education.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

As a Delivery Lead, you will:

• Drive the on-time delivery of project outcomes
• Effectively manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) to ensure timely mitigation and resolution.
• Maintain healthy backlogs through discovery, refinement, and team coaching.
• Provide clear communication and regular progress updates.
• Continuously improve planning and predictability through forecasting using empirical data and charts like Burn Up and Burn Down.
• Build and manage strong, collaborative relationships with both business stakeholders and third parties, ensuring clear agreements and effective collaboration
• Develop and implement improvement plans for teams.