Delivery Manager, Ascential
App, Events Tech, 12 Months Maternity Cover
1-2 days a week in office
Events, intelligence & advisory company
Job no longer available
Events, intelligence & advisory company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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
- Agile and Lean practices. You can lead on a range of Agile and Lean tools and techniques. You can provide coaching on these tools and techniques in and outside of your team
- Communicating between the technical and non-technical. You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context, making complex and technical information simple and accessible for all
- Life cycle perspective. You can understand the different phases of product delivery and can contribute to, plan or run them. You can maintain a product or process through the delivery phases
- Maintaining delivery momentum. You can solve issues and unblock problems. You can lead a team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments
- Making a process work. You can effectively focus on the outcome. You can challenge and improve disproportionate organisational processes where it impacts the pace of the team
- Planning. You can take a consistent and ongoing approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and roadmapping
- Team dynamics and collaboration. You can build successful delivery teams. You can maintain, influence and motivate a team
What the job involves
- You will be responsible for the coordination and delivery of our Events Apps
- Working with the business-facing product managers and our external App Developer you will ensure the vendor builds the Apps to the agreed requirements and timeline
- This is a hands-on role where your remit is to work with the vendors and the internal development teams, supporting the teams and promoting cross-team collaboration to ensure the on-time delivery of high quality Apps for our Industry-leading events
- Develop and maintain a detailed project plan, outlining tasks, timelines, dependencies, and milestones
- Serve as the main point of contact between the company and the external vendor(s)
- Define and manage project scope, ensuring that changes are documented, reviewed, and approved using appropriate change control processes
- Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimise their impact
- Provide clear and concise project updates to stakeholders, including progress, issues, and risks
- Define and implement quality assurance processes to ensure the Events App meets established standards and user expectations
- Coordinate resources, both internal and external, to ensure that project tasks are adequately staffed and completed on schedule
- Collect and collate requirements for each of the Apps, working with the Product Managers to gather and record them
- Working across the relevant cross-functional teams, ensure well-planned delivery of core BAU App deliveries + strategic improvements
- Work within the teams and with the relevant internal stakeholders to ensure documentation and vendor tickets are written to an accepted standard before any development work begins
- High level of cross-team collaboration and facilitation
- Attend all team stand ups, backlog refinements and retrospectives
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
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 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.
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