Senior Delivery Manager
HybridManchester, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver products and services that meet users' needs while helping them organize, plan, and communicate using agile practices. Identify and build the resources required to deliver client goals, proactively address risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers, and influence strategic direction for engagements. Develop, guide, and coach assigned team members, including junior delivery managers, while working with research, design, technical, and data teams to set priorities and identify risks. Be a key member of the Delivery Management community to share skills and improve practices, supporting the development of the Delivery practices toolkit and processes. Experience is required in complex sectors like the public sector or utilities, with a growth mindset and curiosity about AI.
Required Qualifications
- Experience of working along the product development life-cycle with multi-disciplinary teams
- Skilled in Agile methods, including continuous improvement and continuous delivery methods
- Skilled in introducing and improving use of Agile in a pragmatic way
- Experience delivering great outcomes in complex sectors at scale such as the public sector or utilities
- Demonstrable experience in challenging senior stakeholders and influencing their mindset and ways of working
- Skilled in thinking strategically about problems at scale with stakeholders and in the detail with delivery teams
- Skilled in communication making complex information simple, and bringing people with you
- Experience developing and mentoring team members including more junior delivery managers
- Experience working with research, design, technical and data teams - helping set priorities, make key technical choices and identify risks
- Experience being a part of, or contributing to successful communities of practice or excellence
- A growth mindset
- AI curious and ready to embrace opportunities
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of Government methods such as GDS and Digital-by-Default Service Standards
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