Delivery Lead

at  endeavour group

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!

Job Description

• Bring your passion and feel the energy
• Work within an industry leading business during a period of growth
• Become a key player within transformation inititives

The Delivery lead is central to the running of a squad to set them up for success in prioritising, planning and executing on transformation initiatives using Scrum or Kanban frameworks. They enable the squad 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 squad themselves.
The role is also responsible for ensuring the squad adheres to agile methodologies and principles and involves organising and facilitating agile ceremonies such as daily scrums, backlog refinement, sprint planning and retrospectives.
This role will operate at an operational and strategic level to:
Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Ensure that agile ceremonies are facilitated effectively (Sprint planning, standups, sizing, retros etc)
• Responsible for onboarding and uplift of agile values and principles in day-to-day routine
• Responsible for ensuring full participation of all squad members in the delivery of value
• Responsible for Continuous Improvement practices and team mindset
• Responsible for removing squad 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
• Coach the team to be empowered and instill a proactive, positive and innovative team culture
• Work closely with Product Manager on prioritization of the squad backlog to maximize 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 utilized.
• Ensures that the squad has 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 squad backlog is prioritized appropriately to meet cross-team dependencies.
• Decides whether the work the squad has delivered is ready for release, works with the squad 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.

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you:

• Knowledge, understanding and experience of working with Data and/or AI squads
• Experience working with commercial partners in a complex, matrix organization
• Experience working in an agile organization 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, while living our culture and values.
• Strong ability to prioritize, balancing delivery in the short-term while supporting the overall strategy
• Experience in managing complex dependencies and releases
• Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodology, disciplines and procedures, and ability, to help / guide others on the processes
• Extensive Experience in Agile delivery - managing product backlogs, prioritizing requests, writing user stories, sprint planning, iterations, retros, stand-ups
• Eye for detail, and ability to quickly understand requirements and help the team articulate correctly to form the basis for the sprint planning with focus on delivering a quality outcome
• Experience working and using Agile tools (Jira, Confluence, DevOps)
• To achieve this role will need strong collaboration with cross functional teams across Endeavour
• A degree of flexibility will be required in this role as we build and maintain the roadmap.

• Ensure that agile ceremonies are facilitated effectively (Sprint planning, standups, sizing, retros etc)
• Responsible for onboarding and uplift of agile values and principles in day-to-day routine
• Responsible for ensuring full participation of all squad members in the delivery of value
• Responsible for Continuous Improvement practices and team mindset
• Responsible for removing squad 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
• Coach the team to be empowered and instill a proactive, positive and innovative team culture
• Work closely with Product Manager on prioritization of the squad backlog to maximize 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 utilized.
• Ensures that the squad has 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 squad backlog is prioritized appropriately to meet cross-team dependencies.
• Decides whether the work the squad has delivered is ready for release, works with the squad 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