Program/Delivery Manager

Experis - ManpowerGroup; Knutsford; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global leader in consulting and technology as a Program/Delivery Manager. In this hybrid role, you will oversee end-to-end project delivery, manage stakeholders, and ensure high-quality outcomes for change initiatives. Your expertise in Agile methodologies and change management will drive success across core platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience in E2E program/project delivery.
• Practical experience managing sprint-based deliveries.
• Expertise in change management methods and tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage and navigate through multiple component teams.
• Create & maintain project plans and manage delivery disciplines.
• Control financial & resource forecasts to budget.

Skills

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Agile Delivery

Data Driven Delivery

Vendor Relationship Management

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Role Title: Program/Delivery Manager
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid - 3 days on site Knutsford
Umbrella only
£450
Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?
Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

Role Description:

• E2E program/ project delivery experience. I.e. Managing and navigating through multiple component teams and tracking their deliverables.
• Managing Stakeholders at different levels. I.e. Business, technology and leadership. Demonstrate experience with engaging each type of stakeholders.
• Desirable- strong experience in JIRA, Confluence (writing JQL queries etc.) and how that can be best put to use in handling the above. I.e. Data driven delivery.

Managing all projects and programmes being delivered across the Core Platforms
To define and own the content and direction of change projects in order to support the high performance continuous delivery of change projects.
Key Accountability

• Create & maintain plan (from Product Owner roadmap) and Kanban management
• Establish & drive delivery disciplines, cadence & standards for the feature team
• Own the issues / blockers status & resolution, and same for identifying / managing risks facing the feature team (may be reliant on support from others to mitigate)
• Own the delivery status report out and accuracy of the facts
• Vendor relationship management - running RFP's and contract management
• Control financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget
• Overall responsibility for delivering the product to time, cost & quality. Drives the team to ensure velocity is maintained / changes managed in line with expectations
• Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely / pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Effectively provide change management and project management expertise to change projects to which the Project Manager is assigned.
• Experience of Agile delivery methodologies and practical experience of managing sprint-based deliveries
• Possess expertise in change management methods and tools, in particular the Change Management change management method and toolkit.
• Understand the roles, responsibilities and value-add of Barclays Change Management.
• Influencing / networking - developing internal and external business relationships and using own knowledge, skills and experience to influence others opinions and actions.
• Analysis, creativity and innovation - able to apply practical solutions to business critical problems.

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!