Senior Agile Project Manager London, England
Job description
Job Description
We are Technology: a department that has people and product at its heart. We use technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of journalism and storytelling. We proudly are part of TechCharterUK as over 27% of our Tech roles are filled by gender minorities.
News Technology who design, develop and operate all of News UK's customer facing products and platforms. We are ushering in a new age of radio and audio products, focusing on new technologies and platforms that will drive our strategic goals across our brands; talkSPORT, Virgin Radio, Times Radio, TalkRADIO and TalkTV.
Your team: Content Platforms is a technology team within News UK Tech that provides content planning, management, authoring, curation and distribution capabilities that allow the flexibility for reuse across News UK brands, enabling our content creators to deliver the most trusted and compelling journalism in the world. Our platform underpins some of the biggest publishing brands in the UK, including The Times and The Sunday Times, and the UK’s most widely read publication, The Sun. Content Platforms are poised to change the way our newsrooms create, develop and interact with content, helping to solve the major challenges of transforming to a digital first organisation while inspiring and empowering our newsrooms to expand their horizons and push the boundaries of how stories will be told in the future. We are an agile, cross-functional and diverse team of just over 50 strong, located in London, Sofia and Bangalore.
Your role: We are looking for a Senior Agile Project Manager to join the Content Platforms Sun team. You will be a part of a cross-functional team that comprises software engineering, product management business analysis and UX&D. This team builds and manages the editorial tools used by The Sun newsroom to produce and curate world-class content every day.
In this role, you’ll show passion for technical challenges and the bravery to take risks with bold ideas. We want you to help us build self-organised, highly motivated teams with the curiosity to unravel complex problems and the optimism to take exciting, innovative approaches.
Day to day you will:
Oversee the software development life cycle, which includes tailoring agile ways of working, supporting a culture of continuous delivery, and collaboratively shaping the delivery practises of your teams
Raising and resolving risks, dependencies and issues, and negotiating trade-offs and dependencies with other teams
Reporting on delivery progress and ensuring timely communications and updates with stakeholders (familiarity with scaled Agile frameworks or portfolio reporting)
Leading and facilitating workshops both within Content Platforms and externally between technology teams and our business stakeholders
Coaching and mentoring on agile practices across the various disciplines within your team
Helping to manage resourcing plans in conjunction with the budget, and ensuring teams are set up for success with the right roles to deliver planned initiatives
Be a part of and to contribute to the Project and Programme Management (PPM) community within News UK (40+ PPMs)
What we’re looking for from you:
Delivering ValueLeading end-to-end delivery across multiple teams by prioritising around business value and validating benefits with customers
Exemplary management of stakeholders through proactive communication and exception handling
Application of Agile approaches to build collaborative, cross-functional teams delivering value to the business
Using Agile approaches to review skills and capacity for delivering against priorities each quarter, and reorganising teams as appropriate to set them up for success
Using Agile techniques to transform complex, high-level business proposals into a roadmap with a clear, accurately estimated release plan
Managing your teams’ dependencies through influence, collaboration and organisation
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
