Delivery Manager

Harvey Nash; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a Delivery Manager for a 6-month contract in Scotland. The role involves managing delivery teams, championing Agile processes, and ensuring the successful delivery of products and services. Ideal candidates will have experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies and strong financial management skills. The position is hybrid, with a day rate of £470.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of technology and change delivery using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Ability to manage an Agile delivery team using core skills and techniques.
• Specialist skills in defining the Agile approach and supporting delivery of Scaled Agile.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for planning your team's delivery and managing the plan.
• Leading the team to focus on important deliveries and making manageable plans.
• Work with teams to plan in and deliver shared deliverables.

Skills

Agile delivery management

Waterfall methodologies

Financial management

Scaled Agile (SAFe) practices

Job description

Delivery Manager | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, Edinburgh/Glasgow | Starting ASAP

Please note, only Scotland based candidates will be selected for this role.

Day Rate: £470

About the role

As Delivery Manager you will manage key elements of the delivery. You will be leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a complex digital and business programme, driving forward progress at pace and to agreed timescales, managing competing priorities, breaking down barriers for the team, and both planning at a higher level and getting into the detail to ensure key deliverables are met on time.

Main Duties

• Accountable for planning your team's delivery and managing the plan aligned to wider program plans
• Leading the team to focus on what is most important to the delivery of products and services, making clear, pragmatic and manageable plans
• Work with other teams across the programme to plan in and deliver shared deliverables
• Champion, lead, inspire and drive Agile change in your team/s
• Champion Delivery Train (Scaled Agile) processes within your team
• Manage the loop between team level and programme level, i.e. team ceremonies including stand up and planning support the Epics/RAID items that are in SoS. They are not disconnected.
• Manage your team/s to ensure all Deliverables (JIRA tickets) are estimated
• Lead on resource planning and ensure this is assessed regularly against plans
• Protect your team from 'other' work and help the team balance their capacity against demand

Essential Skills & Experience

• Good understanding of technology and change delivery using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Ability to manage an Agile delivery team using the core skills and techniques. There is a blend of skills in terms of technical delivery, Agile (and to a lesser extent Lean) practices and the overall product delivery lifecycle that we use within the programme in terms of Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live.
• The financial management across to the initial business case and when supplier/commercial management needs to take place.
• Planning requires specialist skills in terms of defining the Agile approach and supporting this through the delivery of Scaled Agile (SAFe) that we utilise in the programme.

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply