Delivery Manager
3 Months
Bristol or Manchester
£467p/d Inside of IR-35
Role Brief:
Working in a highly complex fast paced environment the Agile Delivery Manager is responsible for creating and leading an integrated team to deliver end-to-end projects with an Agile way of working, ensuring they have clearly defined and agreed business outcomes and associated benefit, deliver on time, within budget and to agreed quality criteria from conception through to market launch and transition into operations.
You will manage a virtual team of up to 100 people, including a number of 3rd party Suppliers, providing strong leadership across a number of squads/teams, with particular focus on bringing about consistent Agile ways of working.
You will work closely with stakeholders across the Organisation to shape the Projects and proactively solve conflict situations through problem-solving, negotiation, open communication and direct influencing.
Experience:
- Professional experience driving complex business change projects (<£5m) within Agile and Gated Project Governance processes,focussed on:
- Agile ways of working
- Process re-engineering and introduction
- 3rd party commercial alignment
- Stakeholder comms and training
- Business change readiness
- Underpined through supporting technical deliveries
- Proven ability to bring about consistent Agile ways of working within an immature, yet experienced, team. This includes coaching of key business and partner stakeholders, and the use of JIRA.
- Excellent track record in enabling frequent waves of benefit realisation through incremental project delivery within a fast paced, Technology environment in the telecoms business using a range of internal and external suppliers to deliver.
- Experience working with a range of stakeholders, up to 'Director of' levels
- Knowledge of and experience with Mobile products and services.
