Delivery Management Capability Lead

**About Us**

We’re an innovative tech consultancy - a team of problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

We bring together experts from diverse backgrounds and experiences in a collaborative and open culture to deliver outstanding outcomes for our clients, and a stimulating and rewarding environment for our people.

**About the Role**

This is a great opportunity to join a rapidly growing business in a key leadership role focused on ensuring we have the necessary capability to deliver great outcomes for our clients today and into the future. The role will report to the Regional CapabilityLead for the North West and will work closely with other capability leads as part of our vibrant capability leadership team.
In addition to the day job undertaking a lead role in delivering with clients, you will head up our Delivery Management Capability. You must have have an inbuilt passion for delivery excellence, focusing on customer outcomes and motivating and energising deliveryteams to achieve great results.

In this role, you will work closely with the North West leadership community and your UK-wide peers to evolve BJSS to meet the future needs of our clients ensuring we have the skills, attitude and aptitude to tackle whatever our clients throw at us withtransparency, quality and agility.
You will be responsible for the growth of the Delivery Management Capability for the North West, implementing the broader strategy provided by the regional leadership team along side your own contributions and exciting ideas on how we expand our capability/community.

**About You**

You will bring significant delivery experience to the role and will understand good delivery principles, embrace agile practices, have an eye for detail and be able to 'ask the right questions’ to validate successful delivery.

What do we look for in a BJSS Delivery Manager? Whilst you will have experience of delivery using a variety of project management approaches, the heart of our approach to delivery is Agile. You will have hands-on experience in Agile delivery techniques anda real passion for using these to optimise delivery. You will ensure that you are actively working towards a no surprises delivery, removing impediments and managing risk. You will be comfortable leading teams of various configurations and sizes, from a fullyresourced BJSS team located either in BJSS premises or at the client’s site, to running hybrid BJSS/client teams. In some cases you could be the sole representative from BJSS, leading client/third party mixed teams.

The qualities and experience we value are:

- A hands-on working knowledge of the key phases and ceremonies of an Agile project.
- The ability to explain and introduce engineering practices and behaviours.
- A deep understanding of the effective use of Agile task management tools.
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery principles.
- An understanding of how to mitigate and reduce risk and remove obstacles and blockers.
- A focus on ensuring quality throughout all stages of the Software Delivery Lifecycle.
- Adaptable and resilient with a high attention to detail.
- A self-starter, motivated and able to motivate others.
- Recent experience as a capability lead or similar, ideally with experience of strategic capability development
- Enjoy acting as an advocate for good testing practices, with a clear passion for engaging the community outside your organisation
- Comfortable communicating with different audiences, being able to manage upwardly and downwardly to a broad range of stakeholders.

**Some of the Perks**
- A collaborative and inspiring environment working alongside some of the best tech people in the industry
- Hybrid working - you can vary your working location to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need it
- Training opportunities and incentives - we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles
- Flexible benefits allowance - you can spend on additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more
- Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and more
- Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
- Giving back - the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discounts - we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle and utility brands
- An industry-leading referral scheme
- Flexible holiday buy/sell option
- Electric vehicle scheme
- GymFlex gym membership programme