\\n Schroders plc, with headquarters in London, employs over 5500 talented people worldwide, operating in 37 different locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, close to the markets in which we invest and close to our clients. Schroders has developed under stable ownership for over 200 years and long-term thinking governs our approach to investing, building client relationships and growing our business.

Schroders in Switzerland is a renowned Financial Institution with around 500 employees located in Zurich and Geneva. For our private clients we provide tailor made investment solutions and complementary financial services. Schroders in Switzerland ranked 4th place in Best Employers 2023. We scored strongly in the areas \\xe2\\x80\\x9cImage & Growth\\xe2\\x80\\x9d, \\xe2\\x80\\x9cWorking conditions & facilities\\xe2\\x80\\x9d as well as \\xe2\\x80\\x9cSustainability\\xe2\\x80\\x9d. We invest in a broad range of asset classes across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. We also specialize in providing high-quality private equity solutions to our clients.

IT at Schroders is not just about technology; it\\\'s about problem solving using cutting edge technology to support the business and deliver high end solutions. We encourage innovation and value excellence. We are a global function that\\xe2\\x80\\x99s managed locally and this allows us to develop and deploy systems and processes across our international offices.

The Technology team supports a number of business areas within Private Assets (Real Estate, ILS, Private Equity & Infrastructure plus others). Part of the Private Asset technology, you will join 10 people grouped into 2 delivery teams overseeing changes, support & release for our core business applications. The team members are located in Oerlikon, Paris & London, close to the business team we work with.

To support our IT team in Zurich, we are looking for a motivated professional for the following position:

Agile Delivery Manager

Key activities

• Responsible for the delivery of a backlog of work associated with eFront Invest and associated systems such as reporting & data integration products of varied complexity through two teams
• Build and maintain motivated teams with your product and engineering peers, making sure there is an iterative plan to work towards the regular delivery of value that\\xe2\\x80\\x99s balanced between technical improvement and product change
• Coach the team and those with influence upon them. Apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques and facilitate continuous improvement
• Proactively manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and get the best value against constraints
• Protect the team and make sure they are able to collaborate, communicate effectively, and focus on what is most important
• Facilitate the capture and analysis of metrics to provide appropriate insights to the team and their stakeholders, using data and context to demonstrate progress and improvement
• Work with your Product Lead to help the team get closer to the needs of users, and understand the problem space \\xe2\\x80\\x93 ensuring the team and the stakeholders are aligned
• Work in close collaboration with your engineering and product counterparts \\xe2\\x80\\x93 sharing the responsibility for managing those in your teams to support their in-role development and career progression
• Collaborate with and contribute to the delivery community, helping to define best good practice and contributing to the ongoing improvement to our ways of working
• Support the smooth running of teams with administrative activities such as budgeting and forecasting

Required profile

• Demonstratable experience of helping teams set and meet objectives and track their progress towards them
• Experience influencing developers, QAs, BAs, and Product Leads in the adoption and appropriate application of agile ways of working
• Experience of managing multiple initiatives - helping teams provide transparency of their work and their capacity and fostering effective collaboration between teams and stakeholders
• The tenacity to remove bottlenecks and impediments to efficient delivery
• Experience leading cross-functional teams through an agile journey, having experienced different challenges and arrived at different solutions for different contexts
• Ideally you will have coached teams during a period of agile transformation
• Experience creating agile metrics and reporting - understanding the difference between leading and lagging indicators and the optimum usage of them
• Solid understanding of agile and lean approaches, and knowledge of organizational psychology, team motivation, and core coaching and facilitation techniques

We offer a challenging, diverse, and supportive working environment as well as modern employment conditions in an international, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment. The office is located only 5 minutes from Zurich-Oerlikon station.

Schroders Capital Management (Switzerland) AG
Affolternstrasse 56, CH\\xe2\\x80\\x938050 Zurich, Switzerland
T +41 58 445 55 55
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