Senior Delivery Manager

Overview

Responsible for the end to end management and governance of Reed Online s substantive programmes across our strategic portfolio. You will have strong experience working within Agile and hybrid organisations, and have managed substantial portfolios of change.

Key Responsibilities

• Implementing our robust, yet collaborative governance framework for the delivery of our key strategic initiatives.

• Managing and facilitating others within the organisation to ensure a regular review of processes and deliverables.

• Provide direction and leadership to cross-disciplined teams to deliver exceptional products and services

• Work with the cross departmental leads to set the vision and respective smart goals for the projects-defining how success will be measured.

• Partner closely with the leads to create unified plans that drive impact on key metrics, inspire teams, rally support and deliver against the project's objectives and timelines

• Continual collaboration with stakeholders (both internal and external) to identify, manage and resolve any dependencies, risks and issues throughout the life-cycle of the project

• Diligently track and report to stakeholders on the health and finances of the project-articulating progress against the projects workstreams, highlighting key risks/issues/dependencies and their respective mitigation strategies

• Facilitate planning and requirements gathering sessions with the various business areas, stakeholders and product teams

• Facilitation of development estimation and prioritisation sessions, including the projection of team velocities based on historical data and team resourcing

• Collaborate with the relevant business areas and stakeholders to scope out new projects and initiatives - including the development of project, resourcing and communication plans and respective financial expenditures

• Define the required ways of working processes to ensure successful delivery of the programmes of work.

Skills and Experience

• Proven delivery and/or on-going management of digital products

• Proven end-to-end delivery of web and mobile applications

• 6+ years in the field of agile project management

• Delivery of projects within an Agile development framework including Scrum & Kanban

• Good understanding of the full-development cycle-including, CI pipelines, automated testing and GIT workflows, feature sizing/estimation and team velocity reporting

• Experience in managing off-shore development teams and 3rd party suppliers

• Line management experience

• Experience in delivering complex strategic initiatives

What we offer

• Fantastic earning potential with uncapped commission

• Dynamic Working (Office/Home)

• Seasonal Activities/Campaigns (Love Mondays) such as fitness/wellbeing, food treats

• Online Discount Club for high street and online retailer, earn cashback etc

• Course Expense support for self development (after passing probation)

• Healthcare expense support - (after passing probation)

• Cycle to work scheme

• Commuting Support (Season Ticket Loan) (after passing probation)

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)

• Flexible holiday scheme (buy, sell and carry over your holiday)

• Paid time off to move home

• Contributory pension scheme

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