Experis UK
Senior Delivery Manager
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Senior Delivery Manager
Senior Delivery Manager
Location: London (Hybrid)
Duration: 3 Months
Day rate: £500 - £540 (Inside IR35)
Overview
We are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the Digital and Data team. You will be an experienced practitioner who will play a key role in delivering digital products and services at all stages of the product lifecycle.
This role sits in Digital and Data’s Digital Delivery team, which is responsible for:
- The maintenance and continuous improvement of existing digital services
- The development of new digital services to support staff working across government
Main Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Managing the procurement of a supplier to run an alpha phase
- Managing the delivery, support, and continuous improvement of larger, more complex products and services at various stages of the product lifecycle, ensuring they meet government standards
- Leading and motivating multidisciplinary teams, facilitating an inclusive environment where innovation and challenge are welcomed, and resolving team dynamic and collaboration issues
- Facilitating agile meetings, including:
- Sprint planning
- Daily stand-ups
- Show-and-tells
- Retrospectives
- Helping teams focus on delivering agreed goals, identifying and communicating risks, issues, dependencies, and removing blockers as needed
- Coaching and mentoring team members and stakeholders in agile tools and techniques, with a focus on promoting agile and lean approaches
- Engaging with stakeholders at all levels to:
- Build effective communication and maintain strong relationships
- Align on priorities and deal constructively with conflicting views
- Overseeing projects run by external suppliers, ensuring:
- Value for money
- Timely, budgeted, and Service Standard-compliant delivery
- Supporting the Head of Digital Delivery with:
- Project and resource planning
- Demand management
- Transition into live service
- Helping to build an internal delivery manager community to:
- Standardise ways of working
- Improve best practice
- Foster knowledge sharing and skill application
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Person Specification
We are interested in candidates with experience in:
- Successfully delivering medium to large-scale software development programmes in agile environments across the full product lifecycle
- Working to the Government Digital Service Standard and leading services through service assessments
- Line managing, coaching and supporting junior delivery managers
- Building, leading, and motivating multidisciplinary, agile teams to:
- Ensure collaboration and focus
- Deliver agreed outcomes
- Resolve issues effectively
- Stakeholder management (internal and external), including:
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Clear and open communication
- Procuring suppliers for digital projects via government frameworks, such as:
- Writing statements of work for tender documents
- Scoring proposals
- Managing external suppliers to ensure:
- Compliance with government standards
- Adherence to contract terms
- Introducing agile methodologies to non-agile stakeholders, including justifying benefits
- Proactive risk, issue, and dependency management across multiple projects and workstreams
- Providing insightful management information to inform planning and project delivery
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