The Sun
Agile Project Manager
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Your Team
The Sun comprises digital product teams supporting development and enhancement of The Sun Website, The Sun Mobile App, Sun Club, and Sun Savers. It’s an exciting time for us as we align workstreams to be more innovative and audience-facing.
The Sun websites and apps are critical to the continued success of the brand. We are an agile, cross-functional programme, working together to ensure the digital products can continue to meet the needs of the business and customers by improving the user experience, underlying platform, and operational tools for teams.
Your Role
We’re looking for an experienced Agile PM to join The Sun team. You’ll work with the development team, product team, and stakeholders across the business. We need a talented, self-starting Agile PM to help guide the team as they deliver new functionality for our brands.
You’ll show passion for technical challenges and the bravery to take risks with bold ideas. We want you to help us build self-organised, highly motivated teams with the curiosity to unravel complex problems and the optimism to take exciting, innovative approaches.
Day to Day
- The delivery of projects and products in The Sun team using the appropriate agile project management methodology (both Scrum and Kanban), learning & iterating frequently.
- Lead a collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.
- Enable teams to solve problems, remove blockers, improve flow, and make timely decisions.
- Engage with Senior Stakeholders regularly, ensuring delivery proposals are understood and providing clear visibility of progress, risks, issues, and dependencies through effective reporting, tooling, and dashboards.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams from project initiation to establish context, clarify scope and ownership, and build iterative delivery plans.
- Ensure clear accountability across teams, with the right people involved in the right forums to make decisions and deliver agreed outcomes.
- Leverage AI effectively in daily work and continuously identify new opportunities to improve speed and quality of processes.
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What We're Looking For From You
- Proven experience using a range of agile project management methods.
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity.
- Experience of communicating and reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Experience in matrix managing multi-disciplinary teams (Product, Engineering, etc.).
About Us
News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion, and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events, and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles, and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech, and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect, and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
Life at News
Driven by passion, guided by principles, and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect, and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
We represent, reflect, and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class, or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long-term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
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At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
- Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in-person/virtual exercise classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Up to 60% discount on HarperCollins books
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
- Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage, and counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, as well as an extra anniversary day off
- Up to 3 paid volunteering days per year to support causes you care about
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
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