Lead Delivery Manager, Kaluza
£75-100k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Open for applications
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
£75-100k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help decarbonise the world.
Role
Who you are
- You should be an experienced Delivery Manager with a successful track record:
- Able to lead the end-to-end delivery of digital/technology products using agile methodologies across cross-functional product teams
- Excellent understanding of product development process and software development life cycle, with an openness to follow current practices within Kaluza and refine where needed
- Experienced in leading Delivery Management, line-managing and developing people
- Able to build strong relationships and be a trusted partner across Product & Engineering leadership
- Able to influence senior leadership across the organisation
- Strong coaching abilities to empower teams and colleagues to reach their full potential
- Comfortable switching between team-level detail and executive-level overviews
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
- Have a good, working knowledge of Jira, Craft or other roadmapping tools, with a curiosity towards using JQL and existing tools to generate useful dashboards and reports to drive development forward at pace
- Able to draw on experience to apply the right approach in the right context
- Comfortable with uncertainty and adept at bringing people along on a change journey
- Worked in scaling a high-growth SaaS business
- Apply customer centricity in the way that you work
What the job involves
- You’ll be working across both Product and Technology:
- Kaluza’s Product community: A group of Product Managers and Leaders focused on translating complex needs into simple and innovative solutions that solve real customer and business problems
- Kaluza’s Technology community: A large team of both data-led and product focused Software and Production Engineers, pushing the boundaries of technology and working at an extraordinary scale
- As a collective we strive for engineering greatness and by ensuring best practices across the board of the community
- You’ll be working within our delivery management function. The delivery management organisation’s mission is to:
- Shepherd: Guide Product and Tech delivery management practices within the teams you are supporting
- Simplify: Internal reporting & risks to drive action
- Standardise: Process and practice to drive consistency across Product and Tech
- Serve: Alongside our Product and Tech partners to drive development forward in the organisation at pace
- Be Neutral: Provide objective, internally facing data and insights on how things are going to drive action by appropriate owners
- We are seeking an accomplished and visionary Lead Delivery Manager to own and drive the timely and successful execution of our product and technology roadmaps for our clients
- In this pivotal role, you will provide leadership and direction, partnering with leadership functions in Product, Engineering, UX and Client Delivery to support the delivery of strategic goals and to provide confidence around what we’re able to deliver further ahead
- Lead Delivery Management of the Product & Tech roadmap in your area
- Engage with product roadmaps and technical delivery
- Collaborate with Client Delivery leadership to ensure deliverables meet client capabilities, support needs, and timelines
- Ensure that client feedback is integrated into the delivery process
- Ensure that Delivery Management standards are followed within your area:
- Management and optimisation of capacity plans, tracking actuals vs estimates
- Tracking and reporting of initiatives milestones and deliverables
- Management and resolution of dependencies across teams to ensure smooth progress and prevent delays
- Implement established practice within your teams and refine ways of working to foster a scalable and adaptable Product & Tech organisation
- Implement processes and tools that enhance efficiency and productivity, e.g. Agile & Lean
- Act as a change driver and promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning
- Standardise: process and practice to drive consistency across Product & Tech
- Drive analysis of effort distribution, ensuring that team efforts are aligned with strategic priorities
- Facilitate data-driven decisions by ensuring delivery information reaches the right stakeholders, and maintain a strong effort-to-value ratio in your area
- Serve: alongside our Product and Tech partners to drive development forward in the organisation
- Eliminate barriers hindering Product teams from dedicating time to innovation and strategic planning
- Allow Engineering teams to concentrate on technical excellence and execution
- Support the Delivery & Portfolio function in achieving its strategy & goals
- Manage and develop local Delivery Managers:
- Set objectives and provide focus and clarity to the Delivery Managers in your area
- Support your team to navigate complexity & uncertainty
- Bias towards focusing our efforts on the goals of Kaluza and our client commitments
- Improve effectiveness of Delivery Management in your area
- Upskill the team through mentoring and coaching, and showing the team what good looks like
- Be Neutral: provide objective, internally-facing data and insights on how things are going to drive action by appropriate owners
- Guarantee that clear and transparent reporting is consistently available to stakeholders and clients
- Proactively escalate issues and risks, championing effective collaboration and decision-making with senior leadership
Application process
- Closing date for applications: Monday 21st July
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Progressive leave policies - including leave dedicated to the moments that matter to you the most
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- 26 days holiday
- Kaluza Share Scheme
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
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Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at OVO Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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