Delivery Manager

Vestas; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Travel required

Job summary

Vestas is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to join the Controls Solution team in Porto, Portugal. You will oversee delivery across turbine control initiatives, aligning scope with execution in agile trains and the wider value chain.

The role requires governance, financial coordination, and evidence-based decision support to ensure realistic, transparent commitments. You will work with leaders, owners, technical teams, finance and suppliers to balance milestones with risk, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, business, project management or a related area, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in project, program or delivery management in a complex engineering or product-development environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across technical teams, business functions, suppliers and geographically distributed stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of Agile, Lean and flow-based delivery in a scaled engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver assigned projects within agreed scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and benefit tolerances, while serving as the primary project-level integration point across solutions, ARTs, and stakeholders.
• Translate project objectives into Agile execution, converting milestones, requirements, and external commitments into planning inputs, while ensuring visibility and readiness ahead of PI Planning.
• Align project delivery with the shared PI cadence, coordinating timelines, dependencies, constraints, and trade-offs across Solutions, ARTs, and supporting functions.
• Maintain project governance and lifecycle management, including project initiation, tailoring, authorization, change control, stage boundaries, milestones, gates, reviews, and compliance with Vestas governance processes.
• Coordinate decision-making and readiness reviews, ensuring Project Management Reviews and gate forums receive complete, timely, and evidence-based inputs.
• Provide integrated project control and reporting, consolidating delivery evidence from ARTs, maintaining the project risk, issue, action, and decision landscape, and escalating deviations outside agreed tolerances.
• Manage project financials, forecasting, and change requests, ensuring scope, cost, and schedule changes are reflected consistently across project controls, governance artifacts, budgets, forecasts, and project plans.

Skills

Stakeholder leadership

Agile delivery

Budgeting

Jira

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Jira

Planning tools

Financial systems

Job description

Work experience Management

Type of position Full-Time

Are you interested in working with a skilled team in an inspiring work environment?

Technology & Operations > Research & Development (R&D) > Project Execution

We are looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to join the new Controls Solution and enable the effective delivery of complex turbine control initiatives within our operating model.

As a Delivery Manager, you will connect project and portfolio commitments with execution across Solutions, Agile Release Trains and the wider value chain. You will be responsible for project governance, financial and commercial coordination, milestone and gate readiness, risk transparency, stakeholder alignment, and the integration of project scope into the Agile planning cadence. You will work closely with Solution and ART leadership, Project Owners, Product Owners, technical leaders, Finance, Quality, Sourcing, Manufacturing, suppliers, and other business stakeholders to ensure that commitments are realistic, transparent, and supported by objective evidence.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver assigned projects within agreed scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, and benefit tolerances, while serving as the primary project-level integration point across solutions, ARTs, and stakeholders
• Translate project objectives into Agile execution, converting milestones, requirements, and external commitments into planning inputs, while ensuring visibility and readiness ahead of PI Planning
• Align project delivery with the shared PI cadence, coordinating timelines, dependencies, constraints, and trade-offs across Solutions, ARTs, and supporting functions
• Maintain project governance and lifecycle management, including project initiation, tailoring, authorization, change control, stage boundaries, milestones, gates, reviews, and compliance with Vestas governance processes
• Coordinate decision-making and readiness reviews, ensuring Project Management Reviews and gate forums receive complete, timely, and evidence-based inputs
• Provide integrated project control and reporting, consolidating delivery evidence from ARTs, maintaining the project risk, issue, action, and decision landscape, and escalating deviations outside agreed tolerances
• Manage project financials, forecasting, and change requests, ensuring scope, cost, and schedule changes are reflected consistently across project controls, governance artifacts, budgets, forecasts, and project plans

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, business, project management or a related area, or equivalent professional experience
• At least 5 years of experience in project, program or delivery management in a complex engineering or product-development environment
• Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across technical teams, business functions, suppliers and geographically distributed stakeholders
• Ability to translate high-level commitments into structured plans and planning inputs without micromanaging delivery teams
• Practical understanding of Agile, Lean and flow-based delivery in a scaled engineering environment
• Experience with Jira, planning tools, project financial systems, risk-management tools
• Experience with embedded software, control systems, wind energy or another safety-critical engineering domain is valuable
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Governance and delivery discipline - maintains control of commitments, tolerances, milestones, reviews, financials and decisions without creating unnecessary administrative overhead
• Systems thinking - Understands how project commitments interact across solutions, ARTs, teams, architecture and the wider value chain
• Stakeholder leadership - Creates alignment across stakeholders with different priorities and decision rights
• Commercial and financial awareness - Connects scope, capacity, timing, purchasing and budget implications
• Evidence-based decision support - Distinguishes reported progress from demonstrated maturity and readiness
• Risk and dependency management - Makes risks and external dependencies visible early and encourages ownership and resolution
• Collaboration without authority - Enables delivery through clear agreements and escalation rather than directing Agile Team activities
• Managing change in transformation - Can preserve delivery and governance continuity while maturing the operational model
• International teamwork: Works effectively in an international environment, adjusting coaching style and delivery approach to each team’s maturity and context

What We Offer

We offer an opportunity to be part of a solid team in an exciting business with products, supporting Vestas' overall mission. The working environment in Control Solution is informal but with clear direction.

Come join us and you will be part of an international organization with opportunities to grow and develop in the job - both professionally and personally.

Additional Information

This is a hybrid position based in Porto, Portugal, and requires up to5 days of travel per year.

Please note: We reserve the right to amend or withdraw this job posting at any time.

Our commitment to a fair hiring

At Vestas, we evaluate all candidates solely based on their professional experience, education, and relevant skills. To support a fair recruitment process, we kindly ask that you remove any photos, dates of birth or graduation, gender pronouns, marital status, or other personal information not relevant to the role before submitting your CV/resume. Your CV/resume should focus on your professional and educational background, along with the necessary contact details (email and phone number). We train our hiring teams in inclusive evaluation and regularly review process outcomes to ensure fairness.

DEIB Statement

At Vestas, we recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry". Your unique perspective is what will help us powering the solution for a sustainable, green energy future.

About Vestas

Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore.Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 200 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field.With 39,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution – today, tomorrow, and far into the future.Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity.To learn more about our company and life at Vestas, we invite you to visit our website at www.vestas.com and follow us on our social media channels. We also encourage you to join our Talent Universe to receive notifications on new and relevant postings.