We are recruiting for a Senior Delivery Manager to work with our exceptional central government client based in the south west of England. A master in the craft of Delivery Management, you will impart your product knowledge and delivery management experience to ensure the continuous delivery of relevant software. Working collaboratively with technology partners to solve difficult problems.

This isn't an ordinary environment and we aren't looking for ordinary. This role will give you the opportunity to help shape a department in your eyes, streamline processes and make lasting changes to ways of working.

Key responsibilities:

Coaching and mentoring a team of Delivery Managers
Creating new ways of working, ensuring innovation across the team and keeping up to date with the latest trends
Identifying and resolving issues within the team
Managing stakeholders expectations, communicating at all levels sometimes facilitating difficult and complex discussions within constrained timescales
Identifying and challenge complex processes, coaching the organisation to continuously analyse and adapt processes
Identifying and building the delivery structures to optimise delivery of products and services.
Planning beyond product delivery to include forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurement, contingency planning and road-mapping
Communicating and progressing plans to Engineering
Liaising with stakeholders at all levels including other Agile delivery operations throughout the product lifecycle
You will have the ability to represent the community to large audiences not only across the organisation but also to academia and the commercial sector.
Identifying appropriate suppliers and taking responsibility for complex relationships whilst ensuring good value from them
Understanding of the market place, realising

Key requirements:

Expert in technology development best practices such as agile, scrum, lean startup
Extensive experience gained across software delivery (Testing, Business Analysis, Development, Project Management)
Experience in translating IT and business strategies into deliverable action plans
Extensive, experience in facilitating the delivery of complex technical business solutions e.g. software solutions, through teams
Experience of delivering value from agile methodologies
Ability to motivate a team, empowering them to be innovative and bold in their ideas
Commercially aware
Agile, Lean, APMP qualifications
Certified Scrum professional

In return:

You will be working in a challenging and quirky environment with some of the best minds in the country. Contracted for 12 months initially with a possibly to extend thereafter. You'll be challenged and pushed to succeed and will have autonomy to make changes with the Risk owner.

To apply, please send an up to date CV and one of our consultants will be in touch to discuss the role further.

Guidant Global is committed to equality, diversity and flexibility in the workplace. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the application process, please mention this at any stage

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