Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager – HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd

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Base salary: £41,092 pa to £48,344 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top of base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits – check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

The Delivery Manager role sits within the Delivery Integration & Management function. As the Delivery Manager you will be responsible for planning, directing and coordinating activities to manage and implement projects, program or product initiatives from initiation to final transition into operational, business‑as‑usual management across HS2.

• Plans, directs and coordinates activities to manage and implement projects and complex product initiatives from initiation to final transition into operational, business‑as‑usual management. Adapting appropriate delivery methodology and tools (e.g. waterfall or agile).
• Engages and influences senior stakeholders across strategy and architecture, product teams and platform teams to ensure the portfolio delivers the agreed business objectives and manages expectations of key project stakeholders.
• Manages the operational aspects of the delivery across a project or complex product initiative, ensuring project monitoring and control processes are followed (including but not limited to change control, risk management, quality, finance and security).
• Develops and maintains a comprehensive delivery plan, including scope, timelines and resource allocation.
• Supports Senior Delivery Manager with delivery of larger programmes as required.
• Delivers value and agreed benefits on projects or product‑based initiatives.
• Drives realisation of products’ and projects’ objectives and key results and other value metrics defined on the roadmap.
• Monitors and reports on progress, milestones and performance metrics to senior management, stakeholders and other relevant parties.
• Actively manages risks, issues, and dependencies, and raises these to the portfolio management team and supports shaping and delivery of mitigating actions. Identifies mitigations to risks and issues.
• Actively promotes and embeds Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and supports and complies with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

• Agile and Lean practices. Good understanding and ability to identify, compare and apply the best processes or delivery methods to use.
• Commercial Management. Ability to manage complex relationships with contracted suppliers.
• Communication. Ability to build effective working relationships with team members and wider stakeholders. Ability to understand the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them and manage expectations.
• Financial management. Ability to consider the impact of user needs. Ability to report on financial delivery and monitor cost and budget.
• Delivery Life cycle perspective. Ability to manage the delivery of IT products/projects at different life cycle phases.
• Maintaining delivery momentum. Ability to facilitate the delivery flow of a programme/project/product, managing the pace and tempo. Ability to manage internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team.
• Making a process work. Ability to identify and challenge complex or ineffective organisational processes. Ability to guide teams through the implementation of a new process.
• Planning. Ability to lead the collaborative, dynamic planning process – prioritising the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of teams.
• Team dynamics and collaboration. Ability to help create an effective team environment and empower others to deliver.