Delivery Lead

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Portfolio Group Full time

**(Hybrid - Must Be Based In Manchester); Want to work in one of Manchester's most vibrant, fast-growing tech businesses?**

My client an award-winning people management software company that is growing each year, with newly opened offices in Canada, New Zealand and Australia are looking for a **Delivery Lead**to lead the way

**Job Purpose**

To drive agile delivery management practice across the portfolio of projects in order to increase visibility of the scope of initiatives, progress against plan, management of the risk profile in order to continually improve predictability of delivery, makeadjustments where necessary and to set expectations with a wide and demanding stakeholder group.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Actively engage with and manage external dependencies, whether partners, suppliers or other businesses in the group in order to manage external dependencies and avoid impacts from external dependencies.
- Set and manage expectations of a wide and demanding stakeholder set on product delivery including scope, schedule and return on investment.
- Continual calibration of velocity and communication of impact on schedule in order to continually improve predictability.
- Define standard metrics in the teams to support delivery management and influence their implementation
- Drive relative sizing and calibration to establish uncalibrated schedule.
- Ensure that epics are elaborated sufficiently to relatively size
- Inspect and adapt regularly in order to tune metrics and stability.
- Manage delivery metrics within the teams so that progress against plan can be stated
- Understand drivers and current metrics to allow management of schedule expectations by either scope, capacity or schedule.
- Work with the Head of Technology Delivery to agree metrics required and how they should be exposed
- Work with the Product Owner to understand upcoming features and epics in sufficient time to assure elaboration.
- Assumptions, Decisions, Risks, Issues, and Dependencies are actively managed to successful mitigation by managing the actively required.
- Assumptions, Decisions, Risks, Issues, and Dependencies are articulated clearly, communicated to appropriate stakeholders and actively managed.

**Skills**
- Thorough understanding of agile framework and techniques for managing delivery
- Ability to operate in situations with considerable uncertainty and manage the risk associated
- Strong ability to create artefacts for the management of visualisation of scope and schedule
- Able to drive a team to create relative sized backlogs with initial estimate of velocity
- Able to calibrate a team's velocity against an initial prediction and manage the impact.

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