Job Purpose:
The Agile Programme Manager is responsible for leading IMS's quarterly planning and execution process, ensuring clear understanding of progress with current quarter execution while staying on track with next quarter planning. This role is critical to maintaining alignment across all teams and driving successful delivery of quarterly objectives while playing a key part in managing product lifecycle development and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver world-class telematics, mobility, and insurance technology solutions.
The Agile Programme Manager operates as a quarterly planning manager for Product and Engineering business functions, ensuring a structured approach is maintained to product design and development. This role requires strong project management skills, leadership, and hands-on problem-solving skills to help bring IMS's next-generation products from plan to reality. The position is responsible for orchestrating planning processes, managing dependencies, and ensuring all stakeholders remain focused on achieving strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities:
Planning Process Leadership
1. Leads and facilitates quarterly planning sessions across all product and engineering teams
2. Develops and maintains planning templates, processes, and best practices
3. Coordinates cross-functional planning activities and ensures alignment with company objectives
4. Manages the planning calendar and ensures all teams meet critical planning milestones
Execution Management
5. Monitors progress against quarterly commitments and identifies risks early
6. Facilitates regular check-ins and progress reviews with team leads
7. Maintains visibility of team capacity, dependencies, and blockers
8. Drives resolution of impediments that impact delivery timelines
Stakeholder Coordination
9. Serves as the primary point of contact for planning-related communications
10. Coordinates with engineering, product, design, and other departments
11. Provides regular updates to executive leadership on planning progress
12. Facilitates dependency mapping and cross-team coordination
Process Improvement
13. Continuously evaluates and improves planning processes and methodologies
14. Implements metrics and reporting to track planning effectiveness
15. Drives adoption of best practices across teams
16. Leads retrospectives and incorporates learnings into future planning cycles
Risk Management
17. Identifies and escalates risks that could impact quarterly deliverables
18. Develops mitigation strategies for identified risks
19. Monitors external dependencies and their impact on planning
20. Maintains contingency plans for critical deliverables
Essential Qualifications & Experience
21. Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or related field
22. + years of experience in project management, programme management, or similar role
23. Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
24. Experience with planning tools (Jira, Confluence, or similar)
25. Excellent organizational and time management skills
26. Strong communication and facilitation abilities
27. Experience working in cross-functional environments
Bonus Qualifications:
28. SAFe certification or Release Train Engineer experience
29. Experience in software development or technology companies
30. Background in product management or engineering
31. Experience with scaled agile frameworks
32. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
33. Previous experience managing complex, multi-team initiatives
Other Contextual Information:
34. Hybrid role, requiring in-office presence for key meetings, product launches, and strategy sessions.
35. Some travel may be required for customer visits, industry events, and executive presentations.
36. Must be available for board updates, roadmap reviews, and leadership planning sessions.