Associate Programme Delivery Manager - Fixed Term Contract (FTC)

As part of the Advertising Technology Platform Delivery leadership team, you will provide an interface between your Domain and collaborators across Sky. Ensuring working relationships remain strong, Delivery roadmaps are defined and aligned to AdTech Product Strategy & Roadmaps, work intake operates efficiently, and priorities continue to be aligned.

Lead the planning of Features across multi-disciplinary teams working in close collaboration with the delivery teams for your domain, delivering against the Domain's product strategy promoting and achieving customer centric product growth.

Management of internal stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers to ensure alignment within the Domain and buy in on initiatives and change.

Be responsible for a group of dedicated hard-working Product Owners within your Domain, ensuring their personal development plans provides for growth and continuous improvement.

Provide up to date reporting and status to stakeholders including the management of the capex & opex budget and forecasting for your Domain.

As part of the Delivery leadership team, you will work to apply best practices to agile portfolio delivery to ensure quality delivery of services.

Must have

Previous experience as a Product Owner using Jira and Aha! for planning &. roadmapping

Technology background

Solid experience of Scaled Agile / Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Experience in managing a delivery portfolio with at least 2 separate teams with a mix of onshore, offshore & 3 rd party cross functional skills, with scrum mastering undertaking by the teams instead of a separate role

Experience in being responsible for CAPEX & OPEX budgeting

Line management responsibility for 1 - 2 Product Owners

Desirable

The ability to think strategically, pragmatically, and positively about product, technical and cross-functional challenges in order to set and execute strategies to deliver desired outcomes and business objectives, collaborating with multiple internal and external partners for the benefit of our customers.

Strong leadership skills within a tech and product led environment with good communication, influencing and relationship leadership skills across all levels of the organisation.

Experience leading product and software development portfolio delivery, spanning a couple of years through both internal and 3rd party delivery organisations.

Experience of effectively managing 3rd Party suppliers.

Fantastic communication and negotiation skills.

Commercially equipped and analytical.

Media/Advertising industry experience an advantage.

This position would best suit a motivated Domain Lead, Programme Lead who has experience working hands on but also helped to build and scope out a team. You must be passionate about product, with the customer at the forefront of everything.

Our Content Technology and Innovation team delivers high-quality content to homes, customer devices, businesses and commercial partners across our European markets. With over 2500 colleagues from around the world, we combine our strategic insights, engineering know-how and operational excellence to use the most innovative technologies to build and distribute our award-winning content!

Recognised by The Times and Stonewall, we take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion. Investing in society, fighting racial injustice and setting ambitious targets for representation at Sky.

We’ve embraced hybrid working and split our time between unique office spaces and the convenience of working from home. You’ll find out more about what hybrid working looks like for your role later on in the recruitment process.

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There are also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed, and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inventive, forward-thinking minds come together to work in Tech, Product and Data at Sky. It’s a place where you can explore what if, how far, and what next.

But better doesn’t stop at what we do, it’s how we do it, too. We embrace each other’s differences. We support our community and contribute to a sustainable future for our business and the planet.

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