Senior Agile Project Manager
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ROLE
As an Agile Project Manager, the primary purpose of this role is to be the key, client-facing member of a project delivery team who ensures that projects are delivered successfully using Scrum methodology. As the Agile Project Manager, you will be responsible for all Scrum related meetings, such as sprint planning, backlog refinement, and for more traditional project management activities, such as budget management.
This is a role that requires someone with excellent client-facing skills, commercial acumen, as well as the ability to manage others. The ideal candidate must be willing to travel.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Working with the delivery team to develop the project scope, objectives, and sign-off/acceptance criteria
- Ensuring overall project governance and best-practice project delivery
- Coordination of project delivery team resources
- Running sprint planning, backlog refinement and other project-related meetings
- Coaching the client on how Scrum is run, ensuring that both Data&AI and the client follow the Scrum process
- Helping the product owner manage the product backlog
- Controlling the project release cycles
- Managing the project budget and forecasts
- Managing other project commercials such as change requests
- Managing project risk plans, i.e. issues, risks, mitigation actions
- Facilitation of project status reporting with support from Project Resource Administrator
- Managing relationships with the client, the Data&AI delivery team, and third-parties
- Interfacing between the consultant development teams and the client
- Adopting a proactive approach to prevent problems from arising
- Reporting and escalating to management as needed
- Ensuring a smooth transition of delivered projects into BAU or Managed Services support
REQUIREMENT
- A working understanding of the use of agile principles in delivery.
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We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and identities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
We are also committed to equity, accessible hiring practices, and creating an inclusive culture through many means including TogetHer (Women's network) and our Employee Resource Groups which include Diversity and Inclusion, Telefónica Tech Pride, Neurodiversity, ELEVATE (African and Caribbean heritage network), and Sustainability.
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