Delivery Manager

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation with various locations across Scotland, are currently looking to recruit a Delivery Manager until the 31st of March 2027 on a rate of £560/day (Inside IR35). This role will have flexible working arrangements.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with Product Managers, internal delivery teams, and a diverse range of external partners in a fast-paced environment to develop, maintain, and adapt delivery plans.
• Working with other delivery teams, both internally and externally, to manage work in progress and ensure that dependent work is tackled accordingly.
• Helping the delivery team to identify and implement a process that works for them - including bringing potential improvements to the focus of the team - allowing for effective and sustainable value delivery.
• Identifying, addressing, and managing risks, issues, and dependencies that will impede the effective delivery of the product or service.
• Coach and mentor members of your team, and others, on the most appropriate application of Agile delivery tools and techniques to better support ways of working.
• Effective coordination of team resource to maintain the team’s momentum of progressing priority deliverables while balancing outside asks.

Essential Skills:

• Experience in coaching and training both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and Lean tools and techniques
• Proven track record of working with Product Managers (or Product Owners), business stakeholders, and multi-disciplinary roles within an agile delivery team
• Experience in coordinating deliverables in collaboration with other teams and disciplines
• Experience in managing, communicating, and escalating team level risks
• Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
• Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events, and/or conferences online
• Track record of working within project management environments, planning, and organizing a variety of tasks, including involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work
• Experience communicating complex, confidential, and often sensitive information with a range of staff across the organisation and with external stakeholders (both verbally and in writing)
• Ability to work with minimal supervision; to plan and prioritise own workloads, and that of your team; and to meet deadlines
• Flexible approach to learning and problem solving
• Commitment to own personal and professional development, and that of your team
• Effective in communicating both the plan and progress against the plan to a range of stakeholders (both internal and external)
• Ability to solve issues and unblock problems; to drive teams, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments and identifying opportunities for process improvement
• Ability to translate complex technical information to simpler language to support internal and external stakeholder understanding
• Proficient in adapting to change and supporting others to adapt
• Ability to manage internal and external stakeholders across different levels of seniority
• Ability to respond to confidential and sensitive situations with confidence and discretion, utilising tact, diplomacy, and persuasion skills when necessary
• Ability to collate and produce reports and statistical information
• Line management skills and experience including coaching and/or mentoring of team members
• Proven expertise in using Microsoft 365, in particular Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint
• Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post
• Values driven approach to practice, aligned with core values