Manager, Delivery Management

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Manager Annapolis, MD, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

For nearly 50 years, Blackwood has supported risk leaders as a trusted Technology Broker, delivering proven cybersecurity and data solutions for mission-critical environments. Blackwood combines domain insight, structured evaluation, systems architecture, and professional services to help customers select, implement, and realize value from enterprise technology.

Blackwood is seeking a Delivery Manager within the Transformation Acceleration Office (TAO) to strengthen post-sale delivery execution. Reporting directly to Delivery Management leadership, this individual will independently manage an assigned portfolio of customer engagements while operating within co-delivery standards, governance model, and escalation framework.

The role combines disciplined project management with customer-facing professional-services leadership across cybersecurity and data engagements. It is an engagement-execution role focused on driving customer outcomes rather than sales ownership or hands-on engineering.

• Review the governing statement of work, purchase order, assumptions, constraints, customer responsibilities, deliverables, milestones, and acceptance requirements before launch.
• Facilitate internal handoffs from sales and solutions teams; identify missing inputs, unclear commitments, and conditions requiring clarification or escalation.
• Build the engagement plan, schedule, governance cadence, stakeholder map, communications approach, RACI, and required project-control artifacts.
• Confirm customer and partner readiness, access, staffing, prerequisites, and launch dependencies; prepare and lead or co-lead kickoff meetings.

• Manage assigned engagements from mobilization through acceptance and closeout, maintaining alignment among authorized scope, delivery activity, customer expectations, and available resources.
• Coordinate customers, Blackwood teams, technology manufacturers, and delivery partners through recurring governance and clear accountability.
• Track milestones, deliverables, actions, decisions, dependencies, acceptance status, and corrective actions;
  Escalate material variance before it becomes delivery failure.

• Serve as the primary day-to-day point-of-contact for assigned customers.
• Build trusted relationships across customer leaders, technical stakeholders, executive sponsors, account teams, engineers, partners, operations, and finance.
• Translate technical activity into clear business, schedule, risk, commercial, and decision implications; deliver concise executive ready status communications.
• Manage difficult conversations professionally, including delays, missed dependencies, scope tension, unresolved decisions, and recovery planning.

• Maintain the integrated schedule and forecast milestone and completion performance.
• Track effort consumption, remaining hours, progress, resource use, and estimate at completion indicators where applicable.
• Identify overrun, under utilization, delay, margin, invoicing, or acceptance risk and raise it promptly.
• Maintain delivery within authorized scope; identify out of scope requests and coordinate formal change control.
• Support timesheet, invoicing, milestone, acceptance, and commercial documentation requirements. do not independently alter commitments or promise unapproved dates, resources, deliverables, outcomes, or changes.

• Maintain current risks, issues, actions, decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and change records with clear ownership, impact, mitigation, and target dates.
• Facilitate mitigation, contingency, recovery, and decision-making activities; document customer caused delays, unresolved prerequisites, scope changes, and material decisions.
• Escalate material risk, commercial exceptions, resource conflicts, customer escalations, and recovery situations to the Delivery Manager.

• Coordinate internal and partner resources against approved plans; confirm role clarity, availability, readiness, and expected outputs.
• Operate effectively in partner-led and supported engagements and track partner obligations, reporting, timesheets,…