Senior Delivery Manager

Role:
Senior Delivery Manager

Location:

London (Hybrid)

Duration: 3 Months

Day rate: £500 - £540 Inside IR35

We are looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the Digital and Data team. You will be an experienced practitioner who will play a key role in delivering digital products and services at all stages of the product lifecycle.

This role sits in Digital and Data's Digital Delivery team, which is responsible for the maintenance and continuous improvement of existing digital services, and the development of new digital services to support staff working across government.

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• managing the procurement of a supplier to run an alpha phase
• managing the delivery, support and continuous improvement of larger, more complex products and services at various stages of the product life cycle, ensuring they are being delivered to government standards
• leading and motivating multidisciplinary teams, facilitating an inclusive team environment where innovation and challenge are welcomed, and identifying and resolving any issues with team dynamics and collaboration
• leading agile meetings including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, show and tells, retrospectives, and facilitating related activity
• helping teams to focus on delivering to agreed goals, identifying and communicating risks, issues, dependencies and removing blockers where necessary
• coaching and mentoring both team members and other stakeholders in agile tools and techniques, and advocating for agile and lean approaches
• engaging with stakeholders at all levels to ensure good relations and effective communication, taking into account different needs and priorities, and dealing constructively with conflicting views
• overseeing projects run by external suppliers, ensuring that they are providing value for money, and delivering outcomes on time, to budget and in line with the Service Standard
• supporting the Head of Digital Delivery with overall project and resource planning, including demand management and transition into live service
• helping to build an internal delivery manager community to standardise ways of working, ensure best practice, learn, share and apply skills and knowledge to improve

We are interested in people who have experience in:

• successfully delivering a range of medium to large scale software development programmes in an agile environment covering the full product lifecycle
• working to the government digital Service Standard and leading services through service assessments
• line managing, coaching and supporting more junior delivery managers
• building, leading and motivating multidisciplinary, agile teams, ensuring they collaborate and focus on delivering agreed outcomes, and identifying and resolving any issues
• internal and external stakeholder management and communication skills to strengthen relationships, manage expectations and moderate difficult discussions in a clear and open manner
• procuring suppliers for digital projects through government frameworks, including writing statements of works for tender documents and scoring proposals
• managing external suppliers ensuring they are delivering according to government standards and adhering conditions in call off contracts
• introducing agile to stakeholders and teams who are used to a waterfall approach and advocating for the benefits
• proactively managing risks, issues and dependencies across multiple projects and work streams
• providing insightful management information to help inform planning and delivery