Senior Delivery Manager - Department for Energy Security & Net Zero - G7

Key Responsibilities

As Senior Delivery Manager you will be responsible for the building maintaining and improving the team. In this role, you will have the following responsibilities.

Leading Large and Complex Projects: You’ll take the lead on significant and intricate pieces of work, which may involve coordinating multiple teams.

Supplier and Partner Management: You’ll be responsible for procuring and managing suppliers and delivery partners.

Financial Oversight: Managing costings, budgets, and project finances will be part of your role.

Team Building and Motivation: Bringing together a cohesive team, ensuring their motivation, collaboration, and effective work.

User-Centric Delivery: Ensuring that products and projects meet user needs and adhere to agreed-upon time and cost constraints.

Obstacle Identification and Resolution: Identifying obstacles and helping the team overcome them.

Stakeholder Engagement: Managing dependencies and engaging with stakeholders across ICS Digital and beyond.

Governance and Alignment: Shepherding projects through internal and external governance processes, working closely with architecture and assurance teams to align products and services with appropriate standards.

Status Reporting: Documenting and reporting project status, including managing risks, issues, and dependencies.

Effective Governance: Establishing appropriate governance structures for the projects and products you’re involved in.

Prioritisation: Focusing the team on what is most critical for successful product and service delivery.

Continuous Improvement: Encouraging and facilitating continuous improvement within the delivery team, fostering a supportive environment for growth and development.

Coaching and Mentoring: Providing guidance and mentorship to team members and others, emphasising the application of agile and lean tools and techniques.

The above responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the post holders may be required to undertake some additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team.

As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.

Essential criteria

 We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in the following areas, ideally within digital transformation projects in large and complex organisations:

- Proven expertise in delivery methods, including identifying, comparing, experimenting, adapting, and measuring outcomes.

- Proven experience in financial management, balancing cost versus value, and understanding the impact on user needs.

- Strong background in Agile and Lean practices, with the ability to understand team roles, apply appropriate methodologies, and explain delivery principles to non-experts.

- Expert in life-cycle perspective, recognising stage transitions, ensuring adherence to service standards, and managing delivery across different phases.

- Experience in maintaining delivery momentum in a complex organisation, facilitating team flow, managing pace, and proactively addressing internal and external risks, issues, and dependencies.