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We are looking for Delivery Managers to join our growing community of delivery specialists at the BBC.

Our delivery community is part of the BBC’s Product Group responsible for the design, development and delivery of the BBC’s diverse portfolio of digital products. Loved and used by millions these are some of the largest and highest profile digital products in the UK. Our teams build iPlayer, Sounds, BBC News, Sport, Childrens, Bitesize and supporting services. It’s an unparalleled portfolio and now is an incredibly exciting time to join us!

We’re looking for people with a passion for agile delivery with the behaviours to inspire and guide teams. You’ll work in small, friendly and collaborative agile teams of developers, researchers, designers, editorial, product and delivery people.

We work for the whole population and being an inclusive, diverse organisation with an open, positive and supportive work culture is critical to our success and something we are passionate about. We care about each other and promote a healthy work-life balance; for example, providing opportunities for flexible working hours.

Here you’ll do work that matters. Come and join us and help make our products even better for our users.

As a Delivery manager, you may support delivery across one or more agile teams.

You will do this by:

• Contributing to and maintaining great agile working environments for your team or teams
• Making sure your team understand their mission, vision and goals, and that these align across the organisation
• Planning, communicating and visualising progress towards these goals
• Managing and addressing risks, issues and dependencies
• Engaging with key stakeholders on delivery progress and challenges
• Continually improving delivery methods and approaches to team working
• Establishing relationships and effective cross team collaboration
• Encouraging the teams to be self-organising
• Actively participating in the wider agile delivery management community
• Learning, sharing and applying skills and knowledge to improve

The successful candidate will:

• A track record of successfully delivering complex digital projects and products
• Understanding of agile and lean methodologies and how they help deliver products and services
• Have demonstrable experience delivering digital products and services using agile methods
• Have knowledge of a variety of agile practices and how best to apply these
• Be a team player and active listener who can give clear, actionable feedback, allowing you to build trust, manage complex team dynamics, and motivate everyone to work towards a common goal.

• Have demonstrable experience in matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams and be able to influence, bridge specialisms and navigate ambiguity.
• Support effective budget and supplier management as required

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here

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Band: D

Contract type: Permanent - Full time

Location: Glasgow

We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits- We offer a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 26 days (1 of which is a corporation day) with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.