About The Role
Hippo Digital is looking to build a talent pool of talented Delivery Managers for current and future contractor opportunities. Due to the variety of our projects and clients, we haveInside IR35positions available on a short-term or long-term basis with fully remote/flexible working arrangements.
Delivery Managers work with our clients to embed agile ways of working and support your multi-disciplined teams to focus on the priorities to deliver the associated product or services. You’ll also run ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives and show and tells.
Your role in a nutshell:
- Help to build and maintain the team on-site, making sure that they are motivated, happy, and working well together
- Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them
- Facilitate and track team risks and dependencies
- Help the team to focus on the priorities to deliver the product or service
- Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team
- Coach and mentor team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques
- Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders
Skills and experience that you need
People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.
We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you can demonstrate experience in:
- Delivering complex digital projects
- Agile project management and working practices (SCRUM/Lean/DSDM/APMG)
- Leading teams of various configurations and sizes, from a fully resourced consultancy team to running hybrid consultancy/client teams
- Collaboration and project management tools
- Understanding of user centred design principles and practices
What makes us great
Hi, we’re Hippo Digital.At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Diversity and Inclusion at Hippo Digital: A commitment to lasting change
At Hippo Digital, we're wholeheartedly dedicated to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, it's not about checking off boxes but about making a true, lasting difference. Having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem-solving while fostering an inclusive environment that benefits everyone. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and join us on this important journey.