Senior Delivery Manager

What you'll do

Product and Technology is a directorate within GDS that provides both Security and Engineering functions to other GDS directorates. As a Senior Delivery Manager within Product and Technologies Common Capability Team you will be essential to improving, automating and maintaining our common capability tooling and services to ensure the efficiency of the directorate.

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you’ll:

• lead and motivate multiple multi-disciplinary teams, helping them organise and plan their work, ensuring they deliver timely products and services that actually meet users’ needs
• co-create and co-own plans and progress using recognised lean/agile practices, and communicate status to more senior people and users appropriately
• provide useful and accurate delivery metrics to facilitate continual improvement 
• facilitate an inclusive team environment where innovation and challenge are welcomed from all colleagues
• deliver to the agreed goals, actively tackling impediments, risks and blockers, and communicating and escalating where necessary
• continually improve the effectiveness, efficiency and cohesion of teams 
• work with senior leaders and stakeholders in GDS and Cabinet Office Digital (CO:D) to ensure all needs are understood and to influence strategic direction
• develop, guide and coach your delivery manager line reports
• manage stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and effective communication, taking into account organisational context and different needs and priorities, dealing constructively with conflicting views 
• work in partnership with product and technical leads on high profile work in ambiguous, complex and/or uncertain domains
• promote continual improvement, good communication and collaboration across the organisation using the principles of agile at scale

Who you are

We’re interested in people with experience of:

• using agile practices to ensure the iterative and timely delivery of products and services that serve real user needs 
• facilitating effective workshops which give a voice to all participants and provide concrete outputs that enable delivery 
• leading successful high functioning multidisciplinary delivery teams which are aligned to the organisation’s strategic priorities and the needs of stakeholders
• actively tackling impediments, risks and blockers, and communicating and escalating where necessary