Delivery Lead

Delivery Lead City: Copenhagen V Country/Region: DK Application Deadline: N/A Delivery Lead, Pandora Digital & Technology

Do you want to be a part of the world’s leading jewellery company while putting your experience in Digital Technology into use? if yes, then we might have an exciting opportunity for you! You will be part of an exciting business area and work in a truly international organisation of can-do spirited, passionate and performance-driven people. We value flexibility and informal working, and you will be trusted to deliver, while focusing on outcome and impact over doing tasks and ticking boxes.

About the Team
In Delivery & Planning, we have a mission of driving and improving end to end delivery of tech initiatives in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams – seeking to deliver expected outcome and value for our customers and colleagues in shortest possible time to market while staying within budget.

With an ambitious strategic roadmap, company growth and transformation plans for Pandora we are looking for a strong Delivery Lead for our Digital & Tech organisation.
In this role you will be leading the delivery for a Product Line, a virtual agile organisation consisting of multiple product teams – all working towards same high level OKRs and goals. You will become an integral part of the Product line leadership team, working alongside the Product and Engineering Leads.

We would like to hear from you if you are passionate about delivery, a strong informal leader of teams, as well as an enabler & facilitator with a servant leadership mindset. You have strong foundations in Agile, with previous working experience as a Scrum Master for multiple teams, Release Train Engineer, Programme manager or similar. You can see yourself working in a fast-paced environment with many stakeholders, where your communication and interpersonal skills are needed and your ability to collaborate and engage is essential.

In your role as Delivery Lead you will:

• Lead delivery of a Product Line consisting of four to eight teams
• Support in managing the teams’ budget, staffing, and vendors to make sure that we operate efficiently as long-standing teams and remain within budgets.
• Be the “Servant Leader” of your teams who will guide and inspire them, embedding agile ways of working and driving its adoption, focusing on iterative delivery of value and establishing a continuous development mindset in your teams.
• Coach your teams in agile practices and drive the efforts to upskill the team in adopting agile tooling and practices ensuring velocity and delivery best practice
• Keep track of delivery, team capacity, and increase visibility of committed workload, deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
• Facilitate scrum events and quarterly planning events incl. teams’ readiness ceremonies, quarterly planning, retro and review.
• Support Product Management in creating clear OKRs and ensure focus on delivering the right value to the business.
• Support the teams to maintain their delivery pace and remove impediments and blockers that might get in the way of their delivery – applying problem solving and common sense
• Work closely with other Delivery Leads and Agile Coaches through community of practices, where you will be able to share best practices and improve your delivery skills.

What is needed to succeed:

• Strong hands-on experience of agile delivery (5+ years), in an RTE, Lead/Senior Scrum Master roles or similar.
• Servant leadership mindset and great coaching skills, you can empower and educate the team in efficient delivery.
• Good knowledge of agile methodology and practices (Scrum, Kanban), ideally, including effective scaled agile frameworks (for example SAFe or Spotify)
• Certification in an agile framework (for example Certified Scrum Master or Leading SAFe).
• It is a plus if you have experience with setting up new agile teams or embedding them into new Product Lines/Squads/Agile Release Trains.
• Experience of good practice in planning and managing flow, you can drive sensible consistency in your teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex internal and external dependencies, to plan sequence of work across teams, and to understand dependencies outside of your team – also in a hybrid portfolio consisting of waterfall programmes and agile product lines
• Problem solver, you can help remove the impediments your team faces
• Ability to plan and build budgets, and track adherence to budget
• Able to work with delivery community to continuously review processes and seek improvements, experimenting with new ideas and encouraging a mind-set of innovation.
• A good understanding and interest in technology and the variety of disciplines and interplays involved in technology delivery.

Did we get your attention?
We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident applying for this position, however if you have more questions regarding the position, please contact:

Kelly Kavarnou
Global Tech Recruiter
[email protected]

If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. We are an international team, so please make sure to send us your application in English to be considered. We look forward to hearing from you!

We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.

Icing on the cake
You will be working out of our beautiful Digital & Technology Hub in Copenhagen, rapidly growing environment of highly skilled and experienced colleagues. Which is a key initiative that goes along with Pandora’s experience & ambitions.

You will also be able to take part in creating eco-friendly environment – that we are not only talking about – but implementing. The result is a professional and dynamic environment that is unique, enjoyable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here.

About Pandora
Established in 1982, Pandora designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora’s products are available in more than 100 countries on six continents through more than 6,500 points of sale, including around 2,500 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 32,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery at two LEED certified facilities in Thailand, using mainly recycled silver and gold. The company plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 and has joined the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce emissions across its full value chain. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated a revenue of DKK 28.1 billion in 2023.

At Pandora, we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.

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