Delivery Lead

**About us**:
Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group is expected to separate from Woolworths during calendar year 2021 and will be well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution

**Where does my role fit?**:
**Data led transformation is a new tribe within our strategy and transformation team. We are currently a small team but with ambitions & plans to grow significantly over the next 12-18 months.**

**This role, alongside a number of other delivery lead roles, is a key leadership role within the new tribe. The role will collaborate with diverse teams and leaders across the business including other tribes and squads within data-led transformation & EndeavourX, our merchandising teams, operations teams and support functions.**

**You will also play a key role in supporting development and roll out of the data-led transformation strategy and driving a cultural change towards agile ways of working and becoming a data-led business.**

**Career development and capability development from a product management perspective will be provided through our Head of Agile & Product Practice in Endeavour X.**

**Key Responsibilities: What am I accountable to deliver?**

**Scrum Master/Delivery Leadership**
- **Ensure that scrum ceremonies are executed and facilitated (Sprint planning, standups, sizing, retros etc)**
- **Application of the agile & scrum values and principles**
- **Responsible for ensuring full participation of all squad members in the delivery of value**
- **Responsible for removing squad blockers with support from the Product Manager or management if needed to ensure planned sprints are delivered as expected.**
- **Responsible for ensuring team norms are understood and followed**
- **Ensures continual improvement practices are applied and agreed actions are implemented**
- **Coach the team to be empowered and instill a proactive, positive and innovative team culture**
- **Work closely with Product Manager on prioritization of the squad backlog to maximize value delivered**
- **Responsible for ongoing health of the squad, ensuring that it is set up to deliver end-to-end outcomes, providing coaching & feedback, ensuring resources are planned effectively and are fully utilised.**
- **Ensures that the squad has engaged with business stakeholders (internal customers) insights and feedback during the delivery of their work. A clear link between insights and action development should be visible.**
- **Works with other product managers to ensure that their squad backlog is prioritised appropriately to meet cross-team dependencies.**
- **Works closely with the squad to remove impediments and “roadblocks” for the squad.**
- **Decides whether the work the squad has delivered is ready for release, works with the squad to define criteria for work to be released and is accountable for the quality of the squad’s released work.**
- **Where necessary, support vendor selections as part of the decision to build or buy product solutions.**

**Which businesses am I supporting?**
- **Our initial use cases span merchandising and operations areas supporting Dan Murphys and BWS. Over time the scope of the team will grow to support hotels and other support areas such as P&C and finance.**
- **To achieve this role will need strong collaboration with cross functional teams across Endeavour, in particular technology and analytics teams.**
- **A degree of flexibility will be required in this role as we build and maintain the roadmap. However, our initial use cases are for smart, automated rostering and cost to serve optimisation**

**What knowledge and experiential requirements do I need to be successful?**
- **5+ years experience working in a retail business or other businesses with significant data assets**
- **Experience working with commercial partners in a complex, matrix organisation**
- **Experience working in an agile organisation or with cross functional teams**
- **Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders**
- **Develops teams that set and deliver to high standards, drive innovation and create value autonomously, while living our culture and values.**
- **Strong ability to prioritise, balancing delivery in the short-term while supporting the overall strategy**
- **Experience in managing complex dependencies and releases**
- **Solid understanding of Agile and Scrum methodology, disciplines and procedures, and ability, to help / guide others on the