Senior Delivery Manager

Version 1; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Career progression

Flexible/remote working

Pension & private healthcare

Training & certifications

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a Delivery Manager to lead agile and hybrid delivery across multi-disciplinary teams in a product-centric environment. The role focuses on fostering an effective delivery culture, aligning stakeholders, and driving continuous improvement across projects.

You will design and embed agile practices, manage roadmaps and releases, and ensure risks are identified and mitigated while maintaining strong relationships with clients and teams globally.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in technology, business, humanities, or engineering.
• Demonstrable experience in Agile Delivery or Programme Management (preferred).
• You have a breadth of experience in agile frameworks and methods and have applied these in multiple stages of the project lifecycle in service or software delivery. You can apply and adapt these pragmatically and innovatively to meet the needs of a team and client. experience working with a range of agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban and lean methodologies, and tools such as Jira, Trello.
• You can build and maintain strong relationships.
• You have experience mediating and mending relationships, and managing expectations of clients and stakeholders.
• You can adjust your delivery management approach, including agile techniques and leadership approach to suit different client context and team needs.
• Strong, stakeholder engagement, team enablement and coaching skills.
• Leadership. You role-model positive and supportive servant leadership behaviours. You know how to adjust your leadership approach to meet the needs of a diverse team and create the right environment to keep team members motivated and empowered. You champion ways-of-working and a positive team culture.
• Experience working with globally dispersed teams.
• Communication - You have strong listening, and verbal and written communication skills, which you can leverage to build relationships and facilitate effectively, asking the right questions to ensure meetings remain focused. You have experience communicating sensitive messages and navigating difficult conversations, steering these towards positive outcomes. Commercial mindset and ability to drive culture change.
• Experience with Pre-Sales, including contributions to proposals to win new business.
• Experience leading Agile delivery in product-centric teams through discovery, alpha and beta phases, embedding continuous delivery, iteration and user-focused improvement.
• Experience in delivering Software Development, Data or Cloud Migration projects.

Responsibilities

• Embed a product-centric, agile delivery culture, enabling our teams to effectively and efficiently deliver products that drive forward our mission.
• Facilitate communication, coordination, and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
• Design and embed Agile delivery.
• Maintain a focus on learning and continuous improvement.
• Create an inclusive and effective team delivering innovative, high-value products.
• Optimise team culture, performance, and health, supporting individuals and teams to operate at their peak and finding innovative ways to improve ways-of-working.
• Establish and mature delivery management processes, including roadmap and release coordination.
• Manage resource planning and allocation, identifying and mitigating risks.
• Support product and technology leads in managing demand and delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and cross-team collaboration.
• Drive Agile or Hybrid projects forward on time, to budget and best quality.
• Stakeholder engagement and management.
• Weekly overview and delivery assurance meeting.
• Standard Delivery Manager duties including project scope, detailed project work-plan, RAID analysis, governance, documentation and risk management.

Skills

Agile Delivery

Programme Management

Scrum

Kanban

Lean methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Communication skills

Pre-Sales

Product-centric delivery

Global teams experience

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification in technology, business, humanities, or engineering

Tools

Jira

Trello

Job description

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Embed a product-centric, agile delivery culture, enabling our teams to effectively and efficiently deliver products that drive forward our mission.
• Facilitate communication, coordination, and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
• Design and embed Agile delivery.
• Maintain a focus on learning and continuous improvement.
• Create an inclusive and effective team delivering innovative, high-value products.
• Optimise team culture, performance, and health, supporting individuals and teams to operate at their peak and finding innovative ways to improve ways-of-working.
• Establish and mature delivery management processes, including roadmap and release coordination.
• Manage resource planning and allocation, identifying and mitigating risks.
• Support product and technology leads in managing demand and delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and cross-team collaboration.
• Drive Agile or Hybrid projects forward on time, to budget and best quality.
• Stakeholder engagement and management.
• Weekly overview and delivery assurance meeting.
• Standard Delivery Manager duties including project scope, detailed project work-plan, RAID analysis, governance, documentation and risk management.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in technology, business, humanities, or engineering.
• Demonstrable experience in Agile Delivery or Programme Management (preferred).
• You have a breadth of experience in agile frameworks and methods and have applied these in multiple stages of the project lifecycle in service or software delivery. You can apply and adapt these pragmatically and innovatively to meet the needs of a team and client. experience working with a range of agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban and lean methodologies, and tools such as Jira, Trello.
• You can build and maintain strong relationships.
• You have experience mediating and mending relationships, and managing expectations of clients and stakeholders.
• You can adjust your delivery management approach, including agile techniques and leadership approach to suit different client context and team needs.
• Strong, stakeholder engagement, team enablement and coaching skills.
• Leadership. You role-model positive and supportive servant leadership behaviours. You know how to adjust your leadership approach to meet the needs of a diverse team and create the right environment to keep team members motivated and empowered. You champion ways-of-working and a positive team culture.
• Experience working with globally dispersed teams.
• Communication - You have strong listening, and verbal and written communication skills, which you can leverage to build relationships and facilitate effectively, asking the right questions to ensure meetings remain focused. You have experience communicating sensitive messages and navigating difficult conversations, steering these towards positive outcomes. Commercial mindset and ability to drive culture change.
• Experience with Pre-Sales, including contributions to proposals to win new business.
• Experience leading Agile delivery in product-centric teams through discovery, alpha and beta phases, embedding continuous delivery, iteration and user-focused improvement.
• Experience in delivering Software Development, Data or Cloud Migration projects.

Planning and project execution:

• Experience collaborating with team members and clients to ensure the project roadmap will deliver what's needed in the desired timeframe.
• You can assess feasibility of delivery and identify risks and dependencies which may impact success, taking appropriate action before they become issues.
• You can put plans into practice, keeping planning collaborative and agile and adjusting it as new learning comes to light.
• You can coordinate a multi-disciplinary team to keep them focused on delivery, ensuring each team member's contribution feeds into priorities and the critical path.

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & Call-Out platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.

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