Agile Delivery Manager, Wellcome
Fixed Term Contract
£72.1k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Euston Road, London)
Global charitable foundation for science research
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Global charitable foundation for science research
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£72.1k
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (Euston Road, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wellcome's mission is to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in Wellcome’s mission and strategic priorities
- Has minimum 2 years experience working as a delivery manager, scrum master or agile project manager
- Is experienced working collaboratively with subject matter experts, product managers, designers, user researchers and software developers and approaches challenges diplomatically and tactfully
- Is experienced evalutating and applying concepts and techniques from multiple Agile (and related) methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban
- Has an analytical and creative approach to problem-solving
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire team members to achieve goals and OKRs
- Proven experience in managing stakeholders and building strong relationships with both internal and external parties
- Is committed to EDI, ensuring an inclusive approach is taken into product and workstream delivery
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Agile Delivery Manager to join our team on a fixed term basis
- Fixed Term Contract until end of July 2026
- You will be part of the Strategy & Governance team within the Digital & Technology department reporting to the Senior Delivery Manager
- In this role, you will matrix work with teams in the Digital & Technology department
- We currently have several projects and product/workstream teams, whose work consists of public-facing websites, Tableau dashboards, infrastructure, research content search engines and a bespoke CRM system for all our grants
- We work primarily with agile to deliver on our products and projects
- You will work with one of our technical project, product or workstream teams to deliver frequent value to our users incrementally, shaping their ways of working across all aspects of the project lifecycle
- You will work closely with subject matter experts to set goals and help the team to deliver towards those goals
- You will be responsible for identifying blockers or dependencies that will slow down progress and work with people involved to mitigate them
- You will also be working with the rest of the delivery team and where appropriate, championing our ways of working across the organisation
- Have a flexible approach to the end-to-end delivery of projects, expertly tailoring agile methodologies to ensure they are delivered on time and to the highest quality standards
- Identify areas for optimization and implement best practices to enhance product team ways of working
- Foster a high-performing team environment, ensuring effective communication and coordination among team members, conflict management and resolution and collaboration with other departments
- Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing any issues that may impact project delivery
- Be the point of communication for progress and provide up-to-date and realistic delivery estimates
- Support with informed goal setting, having a familiarity of sprint goals and OKR setting techniques
- Have a data-informed approach to decision-making, especially when tailoring ways of working to team needs
Application process
- Closing date: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
- To apply for this role please submit an update CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role
- Interview dates W/C 12 May and 26 May (2nd Interview)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Wellcome Trust was originally founded in 1936 to fund medical research and has since grown into the UK’s largest private scientific research fund, and one of the wealthiest charities in the world. Disbursing over £1 billion in funds a year, it has provided funding to numerous medical research projects in its focus areas of mental health, climate & health and infectious diseases. These include the Cancer Genome Project and the Ebola Emergency Initiative.
Wellcome's recent decision to divest itself of its shares in fossil fuels has also relieved it of a persistent source of controversy, as this was potentially hindering the credibility of its climate change research. Wellcome has since partnered with the World Economic Forum to collect data on how climate change is affecting health worldwide.
The company is also moving to adjust to a more global role. The majority of its funding has historically been allocated to UK firms, but as climate change and infectious diseases know no borders, neither does research into solutions to these problems. ln 2019 it established an office in Berlin to strengthen its scientific links in the EU and to allow it to more easily fund important research outside of the UK.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Holiday – 25 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays (and we usually close between Christmas and New Year)
- Pension (defined contribution plan) – you contribute at least 3% and we pay in 15% of your salary
- Income protection – to maintain your income if you have a prolonged illness or disability
- Life assurance – four to six times your basic salary if you’re a member of our pension plan
- Interest-free travel season ticket loan
- Private medical insurance – we pay the cover, you pay the tax (and you can pay to add dependants)
- Gym and fitness classes – free membership to on-site gym and subsidised fitness classes and treatments
- Employee assistance programme – free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting your home life
- Mental health support – our network of mental health first aiders can be a first point of contact, or help while you're receiving professional help
- Health assessments (free and voluntary) – after you’ve been here for one year, then every two years after that
- Occupational health – annual eye tests and flu jabs, as well as job-related vaccinations
- Flexible working – we make every effort to support flexible working, including flexible working hours and remote working (we respect people's different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance)
- Flexi-leave scheme – you can buy or sell up to five days of your holiday entitlement a year
- Staff social club – a range of sports teams and fun events throughout the year
- Volunteering – we give you up to four days' paid leave a year to contribute to our local community
- Give As You Earn – allows you to make tax-free donations to the charities you care about
- Cycle-to-work scheme – we offer at least 25% discount on bikes and cycling equipment and we have secure cycle storage, lockers and showers
- Subsidised restaurant and cafe
- Wellcome Collection discounts – 20% off food, drink and gifts from our cafe, restaurant and shop
- Discounts through Perkbox – shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, phone insurance and gift cards
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Farrar
(Director, not founder)Has been Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013. Before that was Director of Oxford Clinical Research Unit, working on research and clinical trials for diseases in Vietnam.
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