We are looking for an experienced Delivery Manager with a strong technical background to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives for our client, one of the UK's major energy providers. The role focuses on orchestrating end-to-end delivery across engineering, data, and cloud teams, ensuring that technical solutions are delivered on time, aligned with architectural standards, and fully support client's operational and regulatory needs.
Requirements
- Responsible for delivery of a large and complex programme, or a few medium sized projects simultaneously from inception to outcome delivery
- Leading teams from 15 – 75 people
- Used to dealing with C suite and senior client stakeholders to set and manage expectations
- Manages multiple delivery teams via lower-level delivery staff for example scrum masters/agile delivery leads, project managers
- Works closely with other practices such as platform, security, managed services and testing to deliver end to end solutions for clients and manage the various dependencies
- Manages across onshore and nearshore or offshore teams
- Comfortable in leading services delivered from client locations integrated with staff from NTT DATA locations
- Comfortable with all aspects of programmatic including planning, resource management, dependency and risk management, commercials and forecasting
- Experience in business development and sales and able to support opportunity qualification and bid reviews prior to submission to ensure they are robust and deliverable
- Define, lead and monitor all team delivery ensuring adherence to delivery methodology, quality and architectural principles, to deliver business goals and minimise technical debt
- Point of escalation from client's perspective for delivery issues
- Effort estimation: Organise, review and assure effort estimates for technical work, either for bids or on projects
- Reporting: Prepare internal and external project reports which provide the necessary MI, and help to steer behaviour
- Governance: Organise and drive project governance internally and externally
- Risk management: Identify, track, communicate and manage risks, measure value and make judgments to minimise costs and delays
- Dependency management: Identify, track, communicate and manage dependencies, measure value and make judgments to minimise costs and delays
- Stakeholder management and communication: Manage client stakeholders to ensure alignment of the project to the customer and the customer to the project to ensure smooth delivery
- Driving Agile and hybrid projects: Organise, facilitate and run agile ceremonies, modifying them to meet client and project needs.
- Project ownership: Be the controlling mind who keeps track of all the details, drives the project identity and success from beginning to end – own the entire project lifecycle.
- Delivery: Get projects delivered, ensure quality, and get formal acceptance of deliveries and deliverables.
- Assurance: Able to provide delivery assurance on assignments as required to help build quality and confidence in delivery
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Benefits package
- Opportunities for career growth and development
