Senior Manager, Agile Program Management

2 months ago


Canberra, Australia Publicis Sapient Full time
Job Description

As the Agile Delivery Lead, you ensure the successful implementation and delivery of value for transformative end-to-end Agile client engagements. You will lead program or portfolio level processes and execution while focusing on continuous improvement and optimizing the 
productivity of the team. You will manage globally distributed teams to deliver successful 
software outputs and meaningful business outcomes for clients while influencing change and effectively communicating with all levels of the organization.


Qualifications

Your Impact: 
•  Lead delivery of Agile engagements across different programs according to the product
landscape to deliver best in class outcomes for clients
•  Ensure program or portfolio success by defining the most suitable method for the
engagement delivery
•  Guide the team on product engineering and ensure evidence-based continuous
improvement of value, flow, and quality-focused on delivering value to end-customers early
and often
•  Help clients plan, evolve, and formulate a customer-focused digital business transformation
(DBT) strategy; seed, estimate, and facilitate budget planning for value-based DBT
engagements
•  Track and evaluate the delivery metrics of the product teams within the engagement and
drive continuous improvement to improve flow, quality, and value realization
•  Partner with clients to achieve their business transformation outcomes by guiding internal
leaders and external senior stakeholders on agile methods, engineering transformation,
digital strategy, computational design, service design, DPI, innovation frameworks, and
other digital business transformation methods and approaches
•  Create a positive team environment where autonomy, mastery, and purpose are at the fore
by promoting coaching, individual development, and high-performance standards
•  Drive a culture of value-based delivery and self-organization, and empowerment that will
maximize the value of client business outcomes created by the team
•  Contribute to the development of the Agile Project Management Domain and community
through training/mentoring others, knowledge sharing, and leveraging of best practices
•  Articulate engagement commercial metrics including client outcomes, leakage, burn rate,
revenue & margins, etc. to support account health and drive account-level planning within
the industry vertical
•  Lead writing and proposal sales efforts; sell Publicis Sapient value proposition


Your Skills & Experience: 
•  Experience with a distributed delivery model, leading diverse teams, and collaborating in a
multi-cultural environment
•  IT experience in leading high performing teams in Agile/Scrum/SAFe constructs in
consulting environment
•  Strategic and forward-thinking with a deep understanding of and thought leadership in
technology, project-delivery, and one or more industry verticals
•  Demonstrated experience navigating a large organization, showcasing the ability to
influence with storytelling and data
•  Comfortable presenting to C-level executives as well as senior business and technology
leaders
•  Knowledge of client context and client engagement guidelines including organizational
sensitivities to consistently look for new solutions
•  Demonstrated ability in defining, evolving and executing Agile maturity assessments; deep
exposure to various frameworks on engineering/agile maturity frameworks
•  Knowledge of best practices in design thinking/user-centered design (e.g., user research,
hypothesis-driven development, prototyping, and usability testing)
•  Strong conflict resolution skills
•  Effective leadership, analytical skills, and negotiation skills



Additional Information

Requirement: Must be an Australian citizen with at least Baseline clearance. Based in Canberra



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