Delivery Manager, Ascential
+ Ascential Shares Scheme
1-2 days a week in office
Events, intelligence & advisory company
Be an early applicant
Events, intelligence & advisory company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Ascential Shares Scheme
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create unmissable events that bring entire industries together in inspiring settings – from the south of France to Las Vegas and Bangkok – to have the conversations that count.
Role
Who you are
- Strong leadership skills
- A positive, can do attitude
- An agile mindset and a real passion for delivering business value to our internal and external clients
- Effective communication with both business and developers
- Ability to “get stuff done”, and execute on actions
- Ability to plan a project including resourcing, risk and dependency planning and modelling
- Understanding and experience of risk management
- A passion to deliver high quality solutions on time and within budget
- Experience with agile tools such as JIRA and Confluence
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Delivery Manager to join our team in London as part of our Technology function
- Your Role: You will manage multiple agile projects, typically delivering multiple products or system upgrades alongside a product manager via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital team. The role will focus on delivering capabilities for a number of our high profile festivals including Cannes Lions and Money2020
- You’ll be adept at breaking down barriers for your team and both planning at a higher level and getting into the details to make things happen when needed
- Deliver multiple projects and products using the Agile Scrum project management methodology, learning & iterating frequently
- Understand and prioritise BAU work whilst planning the forward roadmap for improvements
- Gathering requirements to understand the problems our stakeholders are having and write them in a format a team can use to define a solution
- Setting of stakeholders delivery expectations ensuring that the right people know what will be released when
- Lead the collaborative planning process - prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
- Ensure all products are built to an appropriate level of quality and have undergone QA and UAT testing
- Using problem solving skills to find solutions to issues as they come up
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ascentia dates back to 1887 when it was founded as a newspaper investment company. Its shift into business analysis and optimisation can be traced to its acquisition of Glenigan, a provider of leads and information for the construction industry in 1996. This move has evolved into an umbrella of companies which are today listed on the London Stock Exchange and the FTSE 250 Index.
After selling off many of its newspaper subsidiaries between the 90s and the 00s, Ascential utilised its catalogue of business insight to expand into events, commerce, marketing and retail. It now owns dozens of businesses that provide information on markets and help businesses grow.
Ascential continues to grow internationally. In 2022, an intuitive move saw the company invest in Berlin and Singapore-based eCommerce and analytics startups. It has proven that despite being a legacy company, it still has its ear to the ground to elevate the next generation of digital media and marketing tools.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company benefits
- Great learning and development opportunities
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Option to opt into the Ascential Shares Scheme
- 25 days of holiday - option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
- Pension
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
Company values
- Creativity - We value and reward innovation, providing new products and services to our customers, and finding new ways of working within our business
- Fairness - We build strong, ethical relationships based on mutual respect and trust
- Empowerment - We trust our teams to act swiftly and independently to meet our customers’ needs
- Focus - We prioritise clarity and focus to deliver high-quality outcomes. We are content to do a few things, exceptionally well
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Phil Thomas
(CEO)They have worked at Ascential for over 39 years in various roles, becoming the CEO in January 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ascential
- Ascential is a people-powered company We’re committed to supporting each and every person that's part of Ascential. Fairness and Empowerment are two of our core values, and we weave them through everything we do. We unite people and invite them to discover more. More about each other. More about themselves. More about the world we live in. We believe that connections are the lifeblood of progress.
- We publish an annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report. This sets out our goals, commitments, and progress so far and ensures that our workforce matches the diversity of the communities we operate in.
- We conduct regular Inclusive Content Audits to ensure that the way we represent various groups in our internal and external content is fair and representative of the communities we operate in.
- We offer internships, apprenticeships and professional study support to bring people into our workplace from the start of their careers. We’re always on the lookout for curious, passionate people from every walk of life.
- We strive to create fair and inclusive recruitment processes that give everyone their best chance at success. Our recruitment teams offer training to hiring managers that keeps diversity, equity, and inclusion front of mind as they grow their teams. We also offer reasonable adjustments to our applicants, to ensure the recruitment process is accommodating for all.
- If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At Ascential, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
- We deliver Respect Training to our managers. This training is designed to equip managers with the tools, language, and frameworks required to create a workplace where our people feel valued, respected, included, and safe.
- We invest in employee groups and networks, empowering these groups to run educational events, support charities that they’re passionate about and share experiences with colleagues. These groups include Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business, and Empower Women's Network.
- At present, we have an almost equal gender split in our overall workforce. We’re proud to have been recognised in the Top 3 of the FTSE Women Leaders Review for Women on Boards since the launch of the rankings in 2016. We’re also listed in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index.
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