Delivery Manager, Semble

• 1-3 years’ experience in a Delivery Manager role
• Experience working with DevOps and/or Data teams
• Ability to perform Delivery Manager responsibilities across more than one team
• Solid understanding and experience in embedding Agile methods and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean
• Strong interpersonal skills including facilitation and the ability to be able to lead and influence others
• Ability to get the most out of the teams and know how to motivate on an individual level
• Good communication skills and experience liaising with all levels of Stakeholders
• Able to solve problems and issues as they occur in a calm, methodical manner
• Ability to challenge where appropriate
• Enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated with a focus on quality and client value
• Able to work independently, excellent personal organisation and can demonstrate consistently balanced good judgement and logical thought prioritisation
• Collating and tracking metrics to help with effective forecasting so that delivery estimations are as accurate as possible
• Promoting and embedding Agile principles and delivery techniques
• Facilitating Agile ceremonies
• Experience of setting up new teams

Desirable

• The Delivery Manager works closely with one or more Product Delivery teams to embed and enhance good working practices with a focus on delivery
• Our ideal candidate will have experience of coaching and facilitating a continuous improvement process resulting in a better overall delivery of value to clients
• You will be working closely with both the Product and Tech teams, utilising an Agile methodology
• Helping shape the operational delivery of work; ensuring that the right processes are in place to support delivery
• Coaching teams to be the best they can be
• Thinking outside of the box
• Being flexible and adaptable and able to adjust quickly to changing priorities
• Having a can do attitude even under pressure
• Challenging and improving organisational processes
• Defining processes and procedures
• Encouraging and facilitating a continuous improvement process, mindset and environment and be a driver in positive change to the organisation
• Acting as an enabler to the delivery process and ensuring that exceptional value is provided to our clients through software that is delivered on time, is efficient and finished to a high quality standard
• Tracking the progress of projects and working with Product Managers to make adjustments as needed to keep the delivery on track
• Providing consistent reporting on project progress
• Collating and tracking metrics to help with effective forecasting so that delivery estimations are as accurate as possible
• Highlighting areas of inefficiencies; and investigating end to end cycle time improvements
• Facilitating ceremonies, workshops and discussions; mentoring and encouraging teams and individuals in self-organisation, cross-functionality and collaboration to solve problems and drive higher productivity
• Helping to both highlight and proactively manage cross-team dependencies
• Promoting and embedding Agile principles and delivery techniques
• Supporting teams in identifying and managing risks or blockers to delivery
• Protecting the teams and making sure they collaborate, communicate and focus on what is most important