Manager, SAC Planning Development

Why this job matters

The Scrum Master Manager manages teams through Scrum processes, ensuring that Scrum and related practices are understood and enacted across teams and supported across the group.

What you’ll be doing

1. Manages teams driving Scrum/Agile iterative development processes to lead on-time delivery of product backlog user stories.
2. Oversees a team of experienced professionals regarding upskilling, development and recruitment as well as how to use Scrum and Agile practices and methodologies.
3. Manages daily Scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings as a key part of the Agile team.
4. Manages collaboration with Scrum masters to improve the application of Agile practices and cross-collaboration for delivery execution.
5. Leverages risk and issue management, leadership courage and proactive / timely communications to safeguard project resources and direct corrective measures to ensure project success.
6. Oversees the identification of resource gaps and inform the programme and project manager to support and enable resource managers for outsourced services as needed.
7. Ensures communication between technology and BT Group through targeted communications and fostering open dialog with team members.
8. Ensures impediments, risks or blockers on timely basis with the team. Tracks to closure using either Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) or collaboration tools.
9. Ensures continuous evaluation and updating of the backlog with new or modified user stories that are decomposed, estimated, prioritised, and assigned to future Iterations.
10. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in Scrum.
11. Implements ways to improve working processes within the area of Scrum.

The skills you’ll need

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Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
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I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
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