Agile Delivery Manager

at  Trayport

Are you a delivery professional looking to make an impact in the fast-paced world of energy? We are a market leader in the energy trading industry, seeking an ambitious individual to join our team and help optimise our software delivery practices to drive value creation.
As a key member of our team, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy trading. If you’re someone who is passionate about delivering value, has a growth mindset, is fuelled by results, and can’t wait to roll up your sleeves and make a difference, then we want to hear from you!
Purpose of the Role
The Agile Delivery Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of business outcomes, working alongside developers, product managers and client managers. This is an exciting role which includes managing delivery against our company OKRs while collaborating with all parts of the business, using a data-driven approach to time and cost forecasting, and fostering an environment of continuous improvement where frictions and blockers can be eliminated on an ongoing basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with development teams to ensure business outcomes are well understood and the team is well equipped to deliver on them.
• Lead strategic planning sessions to come up with OKRs and supporting initiatives, working with business units.
• Track, analyse, and report on key initiative deliverables; ideally using flow metrics.
• Create and maintain time and cost forecasts for projects.
• Come up with suggestions and alternative approaches when faced with delivery challenges.
• Work with all necessary teams in order to proactively address risks, impediments and bottlenecks to keep deliverables on track.
• Strive to eliminate dependencies, and manage them when elimination is not possible.
• Manage stakeholder needs and expectations; including members of the senior management team.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to agile teams and stakeholders; regularly looking for opportunities for continuous improvement and ways to optimise processes across the business.
• Coordinate with other Agile Delivery Managers to ensure an optimal use of team capacity.
• Work with teams and individuals to improve performance around workflow management and value delivery; putting an emphasis on optimising for flow and controlling WIP.
• Provide coaching and guidance to development teams, other Agile delivery managers and product managers; ensuring they are working to their potential to drive better product delivery.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as an Agile Delivery Manager, Agile Project Manager, Agile Coach or Scrum Master, or related experience.
• Pragmatic approach to Agile and ability to adjust techniques to work in the right context.
• Proven experience working with development teams.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, highly autonomous.
• Open minded, inquisitive, life-long learner.
• Possesses situational and cultural awareness.
• Demonstrable experience facilitating Agile events such as planning, sizing, retrospectives, and stand-ups.
• Passion for continuous improvement and learning.
• Autonomous, creative and capable of working in a team.

Trayport is committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide accommodations for applicants and employees who require it.
About Us
Our Culture:
At Trayport, our people power our success. We are a place where talented people never stop learning, innovating and working together to make an impact!
We offer you more than a job - we offer you the opportunity to work with, and learn from the most respected industry and thought leaders in the business. We’re always pushing the boundaries, rapidly expanding our global presence across London, Vienna, Singapore, Bremen and North America.
At Trayport, we understand that our people are crucial to our future. We strive to provide a challenging and inspirational atmosphere; employing intelligent, enthusiastic, adaptable individuals and giving them the
freedom, training, and guidance to allow them to consistently achieve their potential.
If you share our vision and are motivated to challenge the status quo - we want to hear from you!

• Work with development teams to ensure business outcomes are well understood and the team is well equipped to deliver on them.
• Lead strategic planning sessions to come up with OKRs and supporting initiatives, working with business units.
• Track, analyse, and report on key initiative deliverables; ideally using flow metrics.
• Create and maintain time and cost forecasts for projects.
• Come up with suggestions and alternative approaches when faced with delivery challenges.
• Work with all necessary teams in order to proactively address risks, impediments and bottlenecks to keep deliverables on track.
• Strive to eliminate dependencies, and manage them when elimination is not possible.
• Manage stakeholder needs and expectations; including members of the senior management team.
• Provide coaching and mentorship to agile teams and stakeholders; regularly looking for opportunities for continuous improvement and ways to optimise processes across the business.
• Coordinate with other Agile Delivery Managers to ensure an optimal use of team capacity.
• Work with teams and individuals to improve performance around workflow management and value delivery; putting an emphasis on optimising for flow and controlling WIP.
• Provide coaching and guidance to development teams, other Agile delivery managers and product managers; ensuring they are working to their potential to drive better product delivery