Delivery Manager

Brighter futures start here

At Anko you’ll be joining a diverse team who come together to collaborate globally around tech. We are an innovation hub which power and support our retail brands. You’ll feel the impacts of the work you’ll do for our millions of customers and team members every day. Our brands are focused on being customer-led, digitally enabled retailers, providing you with challenging and rewarding work that you will be proud of.

Join our team, choose your own path and work on projects that excite you.

• Accountable for end to end delivery outcomes of Anko Global tribe            
• People leadership and management of Iteration Managers            
• Accountable for the status and reporting across the Anko Global tribe            
• Accountable for key delivery metrics across the tribe and the continuous improvement of all metrics and processes            

Technical Skills required:            

• Have worked in a variety of delivery in Retail domain.
• Your breadth of experience covers small delivery teams in small companies (or start-ups) through to large distributed agile experience with large corporations            
• Qualified PMP or Scaled Agile Certified professional experience in running multi-year programs.          
• Strong attention to detail and a rigorous focus on delivering quality output.        
• Provide direction and leadership in establishing a modern, productive agile delivery system    
• Intuitive and perceptive with outstanding communications skills.        
• Work with the Product Owners and Head of Product closely with regard to product roadmaps, program schedule and executive reporting    
• Significant experience working in a large organisation, preferably Retail
• Lead and manage a team of Iteration/Project Managers
• Proven leadership of highly skilled development and/or DevOps teams in a line management capacity with extensive experience in systems product development &implementation
• Experience as a people leader able to support teams and individuals through coaching, mentoring, career planning, development and performance conversations
• Proven track record of driving continuous improvement and efficiencies in an Agile team
  In-depth experience in implementing high performance development and Agile capabilities, and continual improvement of Product Development lifecycle, ensuring strong alignment to business outcomes
• Demonstrated knowledge of developing software products in various environments from simple to complex architectures
• Strong understanding of public cloud technologies, CI/CD and their effective use to enable and drive efficient software delivery
• Provide direction and leadership in establishing a shared development and operations delivery model (ie. devops).
• Work with the Product Owners and Head of Product closely with regard to product roadmaps, program schedule and executive reporting.
• Provide direction and leadership in establishing a modern, productive agile delivery system.
• Maintain reliable program metrics for business reporting and to drive internal improvement
• Establish and undertake ownership of program level delivery processes in conjunction with other distributed delivery teams.
• Provide leadership to Iteration Managers and other senior cross squad roles
• Establish and continuously improve delivery processes
• Establish and maintain a highly motivated and productive team
• Lead teams to continuously improve all DORA metrics across Digital. MTTR (Mean Time to Restore). Change fail rate %, Deployment Frequency and Lead Time
• Responsible for team engagement
• Facilitate a regular agile program schedule across multiple teams
• Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, Agile Games
• Expert in estimation and planning
• Has fun and is inbued with a positive outlook – sees opportunities more than problems. Works hard to find a way to say Yes, think long term and innovates continuously
• You understand that quality is a first class citizen and is everyone's responsibility.
• You understand the role of a delivery team in a devops culture and strive to achieve this in a scalable 24*7 operations environment.

A place you can belong

We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities in which we operate and are committed to creating inclusive and safe environments where all our team members can contribute and succeed. We believe that all team members should feel valued, respected, and safe irrespective of your gender, ethnicity, indigeneity, religious beliefs, education, age, disability, family responsibilities, sexual orientation and gender identity and we encourage applications from all candidates.