Delivery Lead – musicMagpie

Job Overview

About The Role

We’ve recently welcomed musicMagpie to the AO family, a company that shares our passion for putting customers first, caring about colleagues and making a real difference. Together, we’re set to make an even bigger difference and with that comes exciting opportunities to shape the future of sustainable tech.

musicMagpie are on a mission to make tech more affordable and help protect the planet by encouraging recycling, refurbishing, and repurposing tech and physical media products. They give millions of customers a smart, sustainable, and trusted way to buy, sell, and rent phones, tablets, games consoles, laptops, and other tech – all in one place.

Our Delivery Leads help the team to continuously make progress on their objectives and projects by guiding, coaching and motivating, to increase productivity, improve delivery and implement solutions to roll out to wider IT functions and the wider business. As a Delivery Lead you will lead Product Team processes and ceremonies, with responsibility for ensuring development objectives and tasks are clearly understood and communicated, making sure everyone on the team understands the task/project goals and scope, so the right questions are asked of key stakeholders.

Here’s What You Can Expect To Be Doing

• Assisting the Product Owner in tracking velocity and predictability of sprints to understand if milestone and timeline plans are on track or at risk
• Helping the team continuously make progress on the Team objectives/projects by making sure the team is working on the right tasks and protecting their time
• Helping to remove obstacles to the developers’ progress
• Facilitating Agile events and ceremonies. This will include retrospectives, daily stand-ups, amongst others agreed with the Product Owner.
• Prepare reporting on the progress and success of ongoing team development objectives
• Own ongoing development board areas, allowing clear and consistent task management
• Ensure all guiding principles agreed by the development team are adhered to in day to day activity
• Communicating accurate priority on backlog development tickets, ensuring developers are picking-up tasks in the correct order
  
  

A Few Things About You

• Previous experience in a delivery role within an Agile environment or as a Business Analyst within an Agile environment
• Proactive and tenacious ‘can do’ attitude to unblock issues and ensure progress
• Organised approach, allowing a good working knowledge of the teams current objectives
• Leadership capabilities that drives team engagement and produces highly engaged development teams
• Excellent communication skills with a strong team mind set, enabling clear and open team discussion/ownership
• Relevant agile/scrum certification would be advantageous but not required
  
  

A Bit About Us

musicMagpie is the surprisingly quick and easy way to declutter and get cash for your stuff, which is why millions of people use us every year to sell their mobile phone, games consoles, tablets, smartwatches, CDs, DVDs, Games, Books, Blu-Rays & much more (you can now sell LEGO with us too!). We’ve paid hundreds of millions to our happy customers – the smart, sustainable and trusted way to shop an sell

As a pioneer in the circular economy, we’ve built a trusted platform using our circular model of recycling, refurbishing, reselling and renting products to give tech a second life and help to reduce e-waste on a massive scale.

Our Benefits

As a musicMagpie employee, you’ll be part of a company that’s making a real difference, redefining how people buy and sell tech, and shaping a greener, more sustainable future.

Plus, you’ll have the chance to learn, grow and innovate alongside a team that’s friendly, supportive and always looking ahead!

• 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Holiday purchase scheme on top of your above statutory allowance!
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Share save scheme
• Discounts across the musicMagpie product range
• Making a difference – 2 days paid leave for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Health & wellbeing – Employee Assistance Helpline (EAP) & access to mental health first aiders and much more