Agile Delivery Manager - Senior Consultant
Hybrid - Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester
Product delivery – Agile Delivery Management /
Permanent - Employee /
Hybrid
Want to lead and deliver change that matters?
Are you looking to turn big ideas into big results? Do you want to be a part of a supportive Agile community to help you grow in your career?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As an Agile Delivery Manager, you’ll tackle challenges and guide teams, adding structure, assurance and energy to complex projects that make a difference to millions of people in the UK.
The role
You’ll collaborate with the product manager and team to lead the delivery of services and products that deliver our clients’ strategic outcomes. You'll facilitate people’s work in roles spanning design, development, and research, playing a key leadership role in multidisciplinary agile teams.
You’ll lead the team in agreeing delivery milestones to deliver on behalf of our clients. You’ll create a safe working environment so our agile teams deliver with autonomy in often complex client stakeholder groups and governance structures.
You'll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
Requirements
This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants must be willing and able to travel to client sites in Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds for up to three days per week.
Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it.
Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As a result, we are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
Essential experience
You're comfortable working on complex or multiple projects. You define and deliver the work without much direction.
In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:
• Distributed work and set milestones for others to achieve
• Simplified complex problems into smaller, manageable deliverables for your team
• Created a team charter, agreed ways of working and collaboratively iterated throughout the project
• Organised your team and its ceremonies, encouraged team engagement and self-organisation
• Connected team and stakeholder perspectives when making decisions
• Influenced your team to achieve greater outcomes and remain focused on the project’s vision
• Selected communication tools appropriate for stakeholder and team dynamics
• Created and facilitated workshops
• Fostered transparency and alignment through building trust
There are other essential skills you’ll need to be a great senior consultant. At interview, please show how you:
• Are proactive, and can work autonomously
• Challenge appropriately and resolve conflict
• Help others to successfully work through challenges
• Support and develop teams, and build impactful relationships
• Contribute to communities and client teams beyond project work
Desirable experience
There are some other desirable areas of experience for this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas. These are:
• The Service Standard (UK Government)
• Use of remote collaboration and visualisation tools
• Calculating metrics and using outcomes to effectively manage the team
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or product management
If you have experience in these areas, please show it on your CV and talk about it at interview.
Salary
Senior consultant salary range: £60,000 - £66,000
What we offer
A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments), 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We also offer wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email [email protected]
We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
