Agile Project Manager (Junior-Mid)

at  News UK

Agile Project Manager (Junior-Mid)
Location:
London
Department:
Technology
Salary Details:
Not Specified
Advertising End Date:
20 Sep 2024
Job Description
Who We Are
We are News UK: a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world.
Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Unruly, a global ad tech company, and Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.
We are Technology : an innovative department with people and product at our heart, and winners of the Real IT Awards 2018 “Best Place to Work in Digital”. Passionate and trusted experts creating industry-leading solutions through attracting and developing the best talent.
Our Team
We are Data, a programme that comprises a number of agile, cross-functional teams between London, Sofia, and Bangalore. We grow data platforms, build front-end data products and create predictive AI models for News UK. We focus on the capture, management and utilisation of customer, clickstream and content data in order to drive growth and increase revenue for our users. Our users include the newsroom editors, marketing, advertising and product teams associated with our world-leading digital and print publications. From operations and infrastructure support to data technology and software development, we are committed to finding creative solutions to deliver essential news around the globe. We believe that technology will always be a tool that’s driven by human intent. With great opportunity comes great responsibility and as we continue to use data in more sophisticated ways, we also provide the necessary governance processes to ensure its safe and proper usage.
Your Role
We’re looking for an Agile Project Manager to join our Data delivery team. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across News UK brands The Times, The Sun and Broadcast to deliver data capabilities aligned with their business objectives. Your role will help ensure the Data cross functional team keeps closely aligned to stakeholders objectives whilst adapting to the ever changing world of News.
The successful candidate will be the delivery lead for multiple Agile squads. These are blended local and offshore (Sofia and Bangalore) teams composed of Business Analysts, Product Owners, Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. You may also work with Data Architects, BI Engineers, Platform Engineers and Software Engineers. You’ll be part of a team passionate about data, a team who looks to experiment and drive data technology to enable data capabilities across our brands.
You should be capable of adapting and evolving Agile processes alongside our project management team, capable of adjusting and adapting Agile methodologies to our delivery cycle.
You’ll showpassionfor technical challenges and thebraveryto take risks with bold ideas. We want you to help us build self-organised, highly motivated teams with thecuriosityto unravel complex problems and theoptimismto take exciting, innovative approaches.
What We’re Looking For From You
Data Experience
+ Experience of delivering data science, machine learning and/or other data-driven automation projects, ideally in cloud based environments.
+ Understanding of challenges that data related implementations involve, including the introduction of new business processes from new data science modelling solutions, the provisioning for ongoing monitoring and maintenance of these solutions, and the management of research projects with inherent uncertainty on their outcome.
Leading with Agility
+ Application of Agile and lean techniques including Scrum and Kanban at team level
+ Facilitate agile key ceremonies (stand ups, squad retrospectives, etc.)
+ Track and follow up activities with squads, maintain squad’s backlog, report back status to squad leads, product managers, the Head of Delivery and/or stakeholders
+ Remove blockers, identify and communicate risks, escalate issues in corresponding channels
+ Promote Agile values in the team
Delivering Value
+ Develop an understanding of the business value for each Squad initiative, to support backlog refinement and work prioritisation.
Improving Continuously
+ Using metrics effectively to identify and implement opportunities for improvement in squad processes, and in general identify improvement areas towards agile ways of working
Facilitation and Communication
+ Tailoring facilitation techniques to achieve expected outcomes
+ A great communicator able to influence and communicate effectively
+ Stakeholders management through proactive communication and exception handling
+ Identification of links/dependencies between squads under your remit and other squads in Data
What’s in it for you?
We are a diverse and dynamic team that is expanding. We offer hybrid working with a minimum of three days in our amazing office and the remaining time at home. We’ll help you deliver your best work and support you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.
Flexible Working: At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
Equal Opportunities
News UK is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applications for employment.We oppose all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse team, so we want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive, inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised, utilised and celebrated.
We thrive when we champion diversity and inclusion. We make better decisions, we’re stronger and happier, and it’s the right thing to do.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age

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