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Senior Delivery Manager

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London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Belfast, England, United Kingdom
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Your applicationOpen nowSenior Delivery ManagerVersion 1 · London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, Belfast, England, United Kingdom

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11.8% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Version 1 postings stay open a median of 12 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.4%3 days
  3. 11.8%7 days
  4. 18.6%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 45.1%60 days
This job: posted 11 days ago

Version 1 median: 12 days open

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Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:

  • UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
  • 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
  • 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
  • Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
  • Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.

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.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

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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