Agile Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Agile Delivery - BAU Scrum
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies to a Professional Scrum Master standard: sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
• Identify agile maturity gaps within the tribe and raise build a coaching plan with the Head of Delivery and Senior Scrum Master/Coach to address them.
• Coach and develop the scrum team in agile values, principles, and practices aligned to the Scrum.org framework.
• Remove impediments and escalate blockers, protecting the team's capacity and focus on sprint commitments.
• Maintain a healthy, refined, and prioritised product backlog in collaboration with the Technical Product Owner and Product Manager
• Track and communicate sprint health metrics including velocity, cycle time, burn-down, and sprint goal completion.
• Maintain Jira sprint board accuracy and ticket discipline, ensuring data quality across all active sprints and project trackers to support reliable delivery reporting.
• Champion continuous improvement and embed retrospective actions into team ways of working.
• Lead by example - modelling servant leadership, psychological safety, and a continuous improvement mindset in all team interactions.
• Project Delivery - Waterfall & Hybrid
• Plan, manage, and report on small-to-medium waterfall and hybrid projects running alongside or outside of the sprint cadence.
• Produce and maintain project artefacts using WL standard templates including project initiation documents, RAID logs, milestone plans, and governance reports.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, and quality gates, escalating risks and issues through the appropriate governance channels.
• Apply appropriate delivery methodology - agile, waterfall, or hybrid - based on the nature and constraints of each initiative.
• Report project status into the weekly Delivery Review with accurate RAG ratings, forecast dates, and dependency tracking.
• Onboard and offboard team members to delivery processes, tooling, and ways of working, ensuring continuity of sprint discipline and project governance.
• Release Management
• Own and maintain the team's release calendar, coordinating deployment wind

Benefits

Additional Information

Agile Project Manager Salary: 240,000 PLN per annum, plus company benefits Location: Warsaw, Poland Contract: Full Time, Permanent Shifts: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 8.30am until 5:30pm with 1 hour unpaid lunch break Work model: Hybrid Williams Lea seeks an Agile Project Manager to join our team! Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services, with long-term trusted relationships with blue-chip clients across investment banks, law firms and professional services firms. Williams Lea employees, nearly 7000 people worldwide, who provide efficient business services at client sites in often complex and highly regulated environments, from centralised Williams Lea onshore facilities, and through best cost company offshore locations. Purpose of role The Agile Project Manager is a hybrid delivery role within the Global Engineering team at Williams Lea, combining structured Scrum practice with project governance and release coordination. Operating at SFIA Level 4, this role is allocated to a single engineering tribe and is accountable for its end-to-end delivery health - enabling the team to operate effectively across BAU agile sprints, small-to-medium waterfall and hybrid projects, and controlled production releases within defined governance frameworks. The Agile Project Manager works closely with the tribe's Technical Product Owner, Engineering Manager, and Scrum Master (where applicable), and maintains regular, ad hoc engagement with the Product Manager to ensure alignment on priorities, roadmap, and delivery outcomes. The role also collaborates with the Senior Scrum Master/Coach to uphold agile practice standards and continuously improve ways of working and is responsible for coaching the tribe on agile best practices, actively embedding and enforcing Williams Lea's ways of working, and acting as the primary delivery point of contact for the tribe. In addition to supporting continuous, iterative delivery through agile frameworks, the Agile Project Manager will take ownership of activities with fixed client delivery dates or non-negotiable milestones by managing them as discrete "mini projects" using a structured waterfall approach. This includes establishing clear delivery plans, defining milestones, managing dependencies, and maintaining robust governance artefacts such as RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), status reporting, and delivery tracking to ensure commitments are met in a controlled and auditable manner. The role serves as a key contributor to the weekly Delivery Review, providing clear visibility of progress, risks, and outcomes, and supports the Head of Delivery in quarterly planning activities, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, committed deliverables, and execution readiness.

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