Delivery Manager

Mpa Recruitment; Halifax; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global digital solutions provider is seeking a Delivery Manager in Halifax. The role involves ensuring innovative digital services meet client needs, managing project governance, and empowering teams. Ideal candidates should have experience in project management, strong leadership skills, and the ability to drive business development. The position offers an opportunity to work with a dynamic team and contribute to innovative projects.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in project management and delivery.
• Strong leadership skills to motivate and empower teams.
• Experience with governance and quality standards in projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure innovative digital services meet user needs and quality standards.
• Manage project risks and issues, escalating when necessary.
• Support growth through collaboration with sales and account management.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Governance compliance

Business development

Job description

MPA has been retained by a leading global digital solutions company who work in both the public and private sector. For over 30+ years our client has been providing software solutions to the commercial, healthcare and public sectors. There is a strong possibility you have used our client’s software at some point in your life. They are now looking for a Delivery Manager to join their team in Halifax (remote).

As a Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that?innovative?digital services and platforms?meet?the user need and the outcomes agreed between the organization and their client, whilst ensuring our delivery follows good governance and quality standards.?You will empower and support teams to perform well, learn and grow?in a manner that is consistent with company values.?You will leverage successful delivery?and strong client relationships to explore opportunities to win follow-on business with existing customers.??

The successful candidate will exhibit the following:

Delivery

• Understand?critical success factors for the project?(beyond?the traditional measures:?on time, on budget and to agreed scope) and ensure?each work stream has?a plan in place to?achieve the?success factors.?
• Be responsible for achieving or exceeding profitability?targets?plus accurate and timely forecasting and reporting of project variables (revenue, staffing, work in progress, debt etc.).
• Exploit opportunities?for adding value to the client, ensuring that expectations are proactively?managed?and issues are addressed promptly and appropriately.?

Team

• Motivate and empower teams to create a positive and creative culture for our people to perform well, learn and grow.??
• Put people first & develop others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance
• Ensure all team members have clear?goals, receive regular feedback?and have timely and constructive?appraisals.?
• Ensure team members have learning and development objectives to acquire?and maintain?the skills necessary for the project.?
• Have responsibility for?staffing?teams?and on-boarding of new team members.?
• Build?and maintain?constructive?and collaborative?relationships with the client, other suppliers and third-party stakeholders.??

Governance

• Ensure appropriate project governance arrangements and technical quality standards are developed and followed throughout the project lifecycle.?
• Effectively manage project risks and issues, escalating?where?appropriate.???
• Comply, and ensure team members comply, with all?confidentiality and non-disclosure policies and agreements and ensure the security of information,?at all times.?

Business Development & Account Management

• Support future growth by working closely with Sales, Account Leads & Account Management?teams,?assisting?where required?with?the sales/procurement cycle?to best position?to?win?profitable?new business.?
• Promote successes company-wide,?to?our customers and?to the market,?through case studies, award submissions, blogs, tweets etc.?
• Understand?the contracts and commercial terms applying to?our projects?and ensure that it is not compromised by non-compliance.?

Professional Development & Growth

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the Management Capability.?
• Understand?current thinking from?the Technology, Experience Design and Consulting capabilities?and drive alignment accordingly.?
• Encourage innovation in technology and process both within the project and outside the project.???
• Proactively?assist?with?recruitment?activities?to?enable stable?organizational growth.

To find out more about this position or to apply please send your resume to [e-mail]