Director of Agile Delivery

Anaplan

  • Manchester
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture.Our customers rank among the who's who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins - big and small.Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, -based and disciplined in execution, you'll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let's build what's next - together!Team DescriptionThis role is about taking already strong but loosely aligned Agile practices and making them work together seamlessly. While teams have effective rhythms in place, the challenge is in sharpening the key connection points-such as cross-functional dependency management, quarterly alignment planning, and our Agile Center of Excellence-so they deliver impact at scale without eroding team autonomy. The Director of Agile Delivery will use data-driven insights to identify where tighter integration is needed, build structures that enhance predictability, and ensure our Agile practices evolve in maturity while remaining adaptable to team context.Your Impact
  • Agile Structures & Delivery: Own and continuously refine agile structures that underpin planning and delivery across multiple teams and programmes.
  • Ceremonies & Dependency Management: Ensure sprint ceremonies, Scrum of Scrums, and dependency management remain effective, improving their impact quarter on quarter.
  • Change Communication: Roll out changes to practices in a clear, transparent manner, ensuring teams understand what is changing and why.
  • Standards of Excellence: Define what “good” looks like in agile delivery, track adherence, and measure improvements.
  • Agile Centre of Excellence: Lead the Agile CoE to gather feedback, set standards, and champion improvements across the organisation.
  • Shared Accountability: Build a culture of joint ownership across teams for agile practices, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, and delivery functions.
  • Data-Driven Improvement: Use metrics and delivery insights to identify trends and areas requiring intervention.
  • Reporting Parity: Establish reporting structures that provide parity with the PMO, ensuring consistency of outputs for dependencies, progress, milestones, and roadmaps.
  • Capacity Planning: Support effective capacity planning and intake processes for work moving from design into implementation, leveraging tools such as mid-quarter lookahead planning.
  • Roadmap Alignment: Incorporate architectural roadmap feedback into delivery planning, ensuring teams are prepared for upcoming enablement work.
  • Big Room Planning: Facilitate and support Big Room Planning events, including coordination with teams in India.
  • Agile Adaptation: Assess team maturity and adapt agile structures accordingly, knowing when to hold firm on standards and when to flex approaches as the organisation scales.
Your Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience delivering value through agile methodologies
  • Proven experience in large-scale agile transformations and enterprise-level agile delivery
  • Strong track record of leading teams and “teams of teams” through OKR-driven frameworks
  • Deep knowledge of SaaS delivery models and managing offshore/onshore engineering teams
  • Expert in Scrum, Lean, XP, agile scaling frameworks, and related delivery methodologies Strong leadership and communication skills with experience influencing senior stakeholders
Preferred Skills
  • Deep knowledge of agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, or similar) and ability to pragmatically apply them.
  • Proven track record of building and leading an Agile Centre of Excellence.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive consensus.
  • Experience establishing reporting standards and building alignment with PMO functions.
  • Excellent facilitation skills, particularly in large-scale planning and cross-team dependency management.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to use delivery data to inform improvements.
  • A balance of resilience and flexibility-knowing when to hold firm on principles and when to adapt to context.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren't just words on paper - this is what drives our innovation, it's how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.Fraud Recruitment DisclaimerIt has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.Anaplan does not:
  • Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
  • Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.
All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to people@anaplan.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.

Anaplan