Who we are:

Nimble Approach are a rapidly growing Product & Tech consultancy who deliver value and enhance organisations. We pride ourselves on delivering great projects to multiple clients in different industries including Education, Government, Betting & Gaming, Utilities, Fintech, Manufacturing, Healthcare and more, so there is lots of opportunity to try out new things!

We believe in delivering value at pace and enhancing the organisations that we work with. This would not be possible without our amazing Nimble specialists who leave their mark everywhere they go. Our projects are diverse and different, just like our ways of working and our people. One of our key focusses is maintaining a strong culture of pragmatic, skilled, egoless people who collaborate to get things done and have lots of fun along the way.

We currently have offices in Sheffield (our HQ), Leeds, Manchester and Bristol, however, a lot of us work remotely. We prefer for everyone to work however is best for them – all we ask is that people go into the office a few times a month and for team / client meetings when required.

Who this is great for this role:

Our Agile Delivery Leads are capable of being an exemplar in project and product based delivery, have a detailed knowledge and understanding of Agile and the full delivery lifecycle, as well as the mechanisms within commercial environments and providing quality professional services to our clients.

The Agile Delivery Lead will have experience in:

• Coaching/Mentoring – Coaching teams in best practice agile techniques including ways of working, 3 amigos, peer reviews, pair programming, BDD and TDD, whilst encouraging and empowering teams to succeed

• Facilitating ceremonies - Including but not limited to, Daily Stand Ups, Backlog Refinement, Team Reviews and Retrospectives for multi disciplinary teams.

• Risks and Issues - Managing risks and issues to delivery, escalating where necessary, ensuring appropriate ownership of anything raised and completion of actionable tasks

• Managing Dependencies - Ability to manage multiple dependencies across different workstreams managing stakeholder expectations and supporting the team(s)

• Releases - Understanding client governance and change management processes to manage and support releases

• Frameworks - Exposure to or worked within different Agile frameworks and methodologies such as Scrum,Kanban, XP, Lean and SAFe.

• Communications – Ability to provide excellent communications to stakeholders both internally and externally at all levels

• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion - Ensuring projects are delivered in line with business agreed cultural values

• Leadership – Showing effective leadership and helping to drive wider Business initiatives within communities of practice.

• Autonomy - Able to work independently to achieve agreed objectives, making decisions and gaining consensus on appropriate actions and decisions

The Agile Delivery Lead would have experience in or happy to learn:

• Tracking and forecasting commercials at project level where required.

• Supporting in shaping project engagements and commercial modelling.

• Writing & inputting into case studies, articles, blogs etc to promote our delivery capability both within and outside of Nimble

• Sales Discovery calls - Assisting in scoping out new work and opportunities

• Identifying opportunities in Nimble where agility can be used to further progress the business and its culture.

• Carrying out and contributing to interviews

• Making hiring recommendations based on existing skills mix within the business and expected project needs

What we offer:

• Private healthcare for you and a family member through Westfield Health
• Flexible / Hybrid working
• Enhanced Parental pay
• Volunteer Days
• Multiple Qualified Mental Health First Aider’s with regular 1-1’s available
• £2,000 champion fund to spend as you wish on your own L&D each year
• Referral scheme (£3,000) for every successful applicant
• Lots of career progression opportunities
• Laptop and any practicable equipment provided (either a Mac or Windows)
• Regular Nimble Socials (both virtual & physical) including Escape rooms, Gin tasting, Lunches, Award nights, Bowling, Bouldering and more!
• Relaxed and fun working environment
• Engaging and collaborative communities to be involved in
• A chance to be involved in company OKRs and shape how we will be in the future
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Company pension (with employer contributions)

If you think this sounds of interest, please apply with your CV. 

(Unfortunately, we cannot offer sponsorship at this moment in time, so you must be UK based)

Equal Opportunities Statement:

At Nimble Approach, we strongly believe that discrimination and victimisation is unacceptable. It is our duty to ensure that no employee or job applicant receives less favourable facilities or treatment (either directly or indirectly) in recruitment or employment on grounds of age, disability, gender / gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy / maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation (the protected characteristics). 

Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of society and each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We want everyone at Nimble and those applying to join us to feel safe, supported and encouraged so if we can make any adjustments to help with your application or you require any assistance, please reach out to us on people@nimbleapproach.com or 0114 345 0540 and we are happy to help.