Senior Delivery Manager

Currys London Campus at Waterloo
Fixed Term Contract - 9 Months
Full Time
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

Currys is going through an exciting period of change, with the Technology Team at the driving seat. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion for Technology to support the Transformation of our business.
This role will sit within our Delivery team which is at the driving seat for leading strategic change across Tech Enablement projects and programmes. The role of the Senior Delivery is a key enabler to this transformation.
This role will lead the technical delivery of large sized Delivery s and work in partnership with senior business stakeholders, Finance, Procurement and wider business and technical functions to manage projects through the full lifecycle (definition, design, build, test, implementation and handle to support) to aid the realisation of the Currys strategic vision.

• Takes responsibility for the management of and successful execution of large, high-profile Tech and Transformation projects that span across multiple business units and areas totalling over £1m in cost
• Work in collaboration with project sponsors and key stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of project outcomes;
• Lead complex cross-functional change into the organisation through the application of ‘best in class’ projects, programme and change management
• Own senior Delivery stakeholder relationships and engage the business more broadly with project communications
• Develop high performing Delivery teams, with good knowledge management, who work in collaboration with the business
• Establish and sustain an effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across their projects
• Co-ordinate the definition and delivery of detailed business requirements through collaboration with the business, IT and other 3rd parties
• Take ownership for key project deliverables (such as the plan and budget) across the project lifecycle and applies appropriate methodologies to support the achievement of wider project aims and objectives
• Ensures a high standard of project governance
• Ensures that comprehensive project, quality, and risk plans are prepared and proactively managed
• Manages and communicates project interdependencies clearly
• Ensures that realistic and accurate estimates of costs, timescales, quality and resource requirements are agreed and proactively manages any deviations through to project closure

• Proven experience implementing Delivery in Credit, for example consumer credit and trade in / renew
• Experience implementing Delivery involving systems integration (experience of Mule Soft would be beneficial), SaaS in a retail environment is preferred
• Experience in managing 3rd party vendors and working with outsource partners, and contracting and ongoing supplier management
  * Experience with Atlassian products (JIRA/Confluence)
• Proven ability to communicate to stakeholders at the appropriate level and build effective working relationships (will often need to have technical discussions with SME's to articulate design solutions or reconfirm requirements)
• Extremely strong organisational skills in manging multiple teams (including offshore) in order to deal with issues/risks/defects/deliverables/design queries etc.
• Willing to be flexible to meet tight deadlines. May…