As a Delivery Manager you will have a passion for value-driven delivery and motivated to achieve results through flexibility and determination. You will manage a Jira Standardization project partnering directly with client and a highly skilled digital team. Working primarily in an adaptive Agile culture, you will be highly experienced in delivering complex digital projects, managing a range of stakeholders, have an analytical background and an attitude of getting the job done, diving into the detail to make things happen when needed. You will be responsible for managing both onsite and remote team members. Drawing on your experience of 10 years or more, you will be responsible for engaging with the product owners and stakeholders on a regular basis to support product adoption.
Responsibilities
- Deliver projects and products using the appropriate methodology – calling upon Agile skills across Scrum, Kanban and Lean
- Own the planning process and backlog creation - prioritising the work as directed by the Product Owner to achieve value per sprint
- Manage a multidisciplinary team across different platforms
- Handle context switching across projects and with different stakeholders on a daily basis
- Ensure all standards, as set by SME’s, are adhered to by the team
- Dive into the analysis of backlog items to ensure clear requirements are understood in each delivery cycle
- Uphold the quality of all deliverables in a project through testing each iteration
- Develop an expert understanding of the users’ needs and champion these in the delivery of your product
- Understand the product vision with the Product Owner that is easily demonstrated to your users, team and stakeholders
- Engage with users and stakeholders through a range of channels to encourage takeup and use of your product
- Ensure your product meets the company standards and applies principles that help to maximize value and ensure a good user experience
Requirements
- Excellent written, visual & verbal communication skills
- Delivery Management with a passion for shipping and evolving great digital products
- Analytical in nature
- Able to thrive in a high paced, high pressured environment
Preferred Skills:
- Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, PMi and Prince II ways of working
- Delivering digital projects and products
- Atlassian technologies
- DevOps
You’ve experienced:
- Matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams both onsite and remote
- Engaging with users and turning user insight into product improvements
We’d love it if you had:
• A 2:1 bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Formal Project Management training