Delivery Manager

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

•  Collaborate with project sponsors and stakeholders to support conceptualization of products, produce concept papers and build business case and project plan
•  Articulate delivery approach / framework to both business & IT/Digital stakeholders across UK, India and Singapore and at low/mid/senior levels, from concept phase through build and deployment to support phase, gain their confidence and concurrence
•  Manage IT pre-requisites and proactively manage risks
•  Monitor and communicate delivery progress to all stakeholders, take corrective action as required; garner stakeholder support through the appropriate channels to resolve blockers and issues
•  Adhere to Rolls Royce project management, reporting and governance standards and ensure stakeholder approval / concurrence is secured in timely fashion
•  Be the single point of contact for local operations and ensure the reporting are done as required at leadership, business and project levels
•  Champion Lean Process and Design Thinking principles and practices across the enterprise fostering deeper understanding and adoption
•  Operate simultaneously in waterfall, agile and DevOps methodologies as applied to different work streams in a programme
•  Comfortable with demanding customer interaction and facilitating technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders
•  Manage collaborative relationships with other functions in the business, partners, and the ecosystem to ensure a successful delivery
•  Develop re-usable operational templates and ensure Digital solutions are created to showcase the operational data

Key skills and Technical Competencies

•  Degree level education in Management, Science, Mathematics or Engineering or equivalent
•  8 + years in a software delivery or management advisory role of which 3 + years managing end-to-end solution delivery for at least 2 large scale engagements in tightly regulated industry
•  Managed delivery of multiple end to end solutions, from concept to deployment, for green field and brown field solutions in IT / Digital solution landscape using internal and external teams

Expert understanding of

• a. Project management frameworks such as Prince2 / PMP / APMP and their application in IT / Digital solution delivery space
• b. Business analysis / Design Thinking frameworks
• c. Vendor / team management in IT / Digital solution delivery space
• d. Agile methodologies

Experience of

• a. leading teams at a mid/senior level as well as training and developing others
• b. working in IT consulting or technology services environment
• c. Cloud & on-premises infrastructure
• d. ITIL or other support frameworks
• e. identifying, mapping and implementing business transformation solutions by working closely with client organizations

Exposure to

• a. Digital and analytics technologies
• b. one or more of the Aviation, Marine, Oil & Gas, Power Generation and Defence Industries is desirable
•  Understanding of operations and different aspects to run seamless day to day operations
•  Lead from front and relish working on tight timelines ensuring no quality compromise
•  Excellent communication skills and user empathising skills

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