Hybrid Principal Delivery Manager

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About the role

  • Programme delivery wizard responsible for multiple work streams and team management at Kerv Digital. Leading project teams while ensuring governance and delivery aligning with stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

  • You’ll be responsible for running your programme and project teams and reporting into the Delivery Management leadership team and the operational board on programme status.
  • This is also a line management position with responsibility for the pastoral care and career development of a small number of our amazing Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters.
  • Other tasks as reasonably requested (yes, our lawyers asked for that one).

Requirements

  • A politically tuned, programme delivery wizard who can establish and control several streams of work across multi-year engagements; balancing the needs of each work stream against the programme objectives and stakeholder needs.
  • Creating and maintaining the environment in which the programme will succeed.
  • Making sure programmes, workstreams and projects are delivered beyond expectations.
  • Managing short- and long-term objectives and ensuring programmes track against these milestones.
  • Establishing and operating governance structures within programmes to ensure effective decision making and robust assurance.
  • Managing senior stakeholders both within Kerv Digital and our clients.
  • Reporting programme status to the Kerv Digital Leadership Team and the client.
  • Meeting customers, listening carefully and understanding their business.
  • Working with on/off-shore development/implementation teams.
  • Managing programme and project cost and time tracking.
  • Identifying and delivering change control and upsell.
  • Wrestling detailed requirements and designs into an implementable plan.
  • Managing an agile development process, directly and indirectly through our delivery managers and scrum masters.
  • Line management of a small team.
  • Ability to step into a project that needs to be reset, working with the stakeholders and the project team to turn things around.

Benefits

  • Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office.
  • Awesome Environment – all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work.
  • Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us.
  • Great Benefits – all the usual suspects and then some. Some highlights include our choose-your-own tech approach to end-user devices, well stocked cupboards with tasty goodies, excellent professional development support including frequent in-house training, and private healthcare. Full disclosure; some benefits can only be provided after probation.
  • Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services.

Job title

Principal Delivery Manager

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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