Delivery Manager

Continental; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Continental is seeking a passionate Delivery Manager for its innovation hub in Bengaluru. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in managing the delivery of projects/products, particularly in Agile environments. Responsibilities include overseeing project delivery, leading teams, managing budgets, and implementing continuous improvement strategies. Applicants should possess at least 12 years of experience in IT, with 5 years in project management and Scrum master experience preferred. Join Continental and play a key role in shaping the future of smart solutions.

Qualifications

• Over 12 years of experience in IT, including management roles.
• 12+ years in various roles with a minimum of 5 years in project management.
• Scrum master/PMP certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall delivery of projects/products.
• Lead teams and manage their career development.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality standards at the end of each sprint.

Skills

Strong experience in delivery management

Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques

Experience with Agile tools like JIRA

Good communication and facilitation skills

Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Job Description

Overview of the role:

We are looking for Delivery Manager who is extremely passionate about project mgmt./delivery mgmt using Agile methodology for our wide range of cloud-based web / mobile B2B & B2C products targeted towards a wide range of industries and applications. Internal projects/products are also in scope. You will be based in our new ground-breaking innovation hub with an atmosphere of start-up and get an opportunity to work and collaborate with internal and external technology specialist in areas of AI, IOT, VR/AR.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage overall delivery of project/products [more than one]
• Work with SM/PM, Product owners to resolve delivery issues
• Focus on delivery governance and KPI
• Lead a small group of people and manage their career
• Provide inputs to HoS on staffing, hiring, training needs
• Monitor billing topics
• Work with assigned vendors on offers, staffing, billing topics
• Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint
• Ensure the delivery processes are followed by delivery teams
• Guide and coach the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.
• Get team to a high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques.
• Drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.
• Support SM/PM in resolving obstacles and overcoming challenges
• Increase team morale and motivation there by reducing attrition
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements in delivery methods and project management practices.
• Risk Management: Identify project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure timely resolution of issues to avoid impact on project delivery.
• Support with hiring topics

Qualifications

Requirements:

Delivery Management, Team Management

Strong experience in managing medium to large scale delivery of soft applications. Familiarity with software product development. Directly managing a team size of 8+ people. Excellent knowledge of Scrum techniques and artifacts (definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement). Experience in using Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc. Good understanding of KPIs and processes. Experience in creating offers, managing budgets. Knowledge of project financials.

Other skills

• Problem-solving and conflict-resolution ability
• Good communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills
• Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams
• Can-do attitude, result driven, openness to learning
• Experience in coaching and training individuals and teams in Agile concepts and practices.

Experience

• Overall 12+ years of experience in IT industry on various roles
• 5+ years’ experience as developer, QA, business analysis etc before moving to management role
• 5+ years of experience in a scrum master role
• 5+ years of experience in project management
• Scrum master/PMP certification is a plus
• Previous experience of people management with at least 6-8 direct reports
• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of product or project development experience, or 5+ years of project development experience on an Agile Team or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Additional Information

Must have the ability to make technical presentations to audiences of all levels (security personnel, upper management, system users). Ability to establish and maintain a high level of user trust and confidence. Inspire stakeholders and contact partner with an effective communication of high intercultural sensitivity. Collaborative, team player attitude and convinced that networking and knowledge sharing are key drivers for success. Up to date on latest trends in the industry concerning classical data science, data mining, advanced analytics, etc.

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Company Description

ContiTech Business Hub in Bangalore in a key location for ContiTech hosting various functional teams. One ContiTech – The first choice for material driven solutions. Contitech Industries is part of Continental Holding. Headquartered in Hannover, Germany, the division contributes to 6B+ to the revenue. The digital solutions team of Contitech caters to all the Business Units in Contitech and responsible for developing software products using web, mobile, IoT, AI etc especially in Digital transformation.

Are you interested in shaping the future of ContiTech together with a great team?