Agile Delivery Manager (SFIA4)

Dubizzle Limited; City of London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK consulting firm is seeking a Project Manager to oversee public sector projects. You will manage client relationships, support team growth, and optimize project delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in project management and financial planning. This role offers a competitive salary of £55,000 - £70,000 and a range of benefits including 25 days holiday and medical insurance.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday

Vitality medical insurance

Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution

Cycling scheme

WFH equipment allowance

Qualifications

• Past experience as a Project, Programme, or Delivery Manager is crucial.
• Experience in budgeting and forecasting for projects.
• Ability to manage risks with appropriate controls.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex relationships with clients and suppliers.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Optimize delivery flow of teams and address risks.

Skills

Excellent previous commercial experience as a Project, Programme or Delivery Manager

Solid experience in financial planning for projects

Experience in supporting teams in goal setting

Ability to manage risks & issues

Proven experience in ensuring delivery of milestones

Job description

Overview

Work on exciting public sector projects and make a positive difference in people’s lives. At Zaizi, we thrive on solving complex challenges through creative thinking and the latest tools and tech.

You’ll play a key role in supporting, coaching and leading our teams to deliver the best for our clients and their users. Your flexible leadership style will help teams navigate blockers and find their way to the right solutions.

You’ll work closely with our product managers and deliver outcomes and value against the product vision. We encourage learning and sharing — you’ll help coach team members in communities of practice to improve Agile maturity.

Our culture is inclusive, modern, friendly and innovative. We seek bright, positive thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do – if that sounds like you, you'll fit right in!

Role Objectives

• Commercial management. Build complex relationships with clients and contracted suppliers. Identify appropriate contractual frameworks and get good value from interactions and relationships.
• Communication skills. Mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. Manage client and stakeholder expectations and facilitate discussions about high risk and complexity within constrained timescales.
• Financial management. Set and monitor budgets in complex environments. Track margins on delivery projects and adjust to remain on budget. Write or input into bids and statements of work.
• Life-cycle perspective. Apply experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle within all phases of the GDS framework. Recognise when to move forward or stop, and identify deliverables and the right people to meet them. Work with agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. Plan and engage with appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
• Maintaining delivery momentum. Optimize the delivery flow of teams. Identify, track and address risks, issues and dependencies, including where no clear ownership exists. Identify innovative ways to unblock issues.
• Making a process work. Identify and challenge complex or unnecessarily complicated processes. Add value and work with the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. Guide teams through the implementation of a new process.
• Planning. Lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment. Plan beyond product delivery, identify dependencies across teams and programmes, and coordinate delivery.

Requirements

Your ability, experience, and qualities

• Excellent previous commercial experience as a Project, Programme or Delivery Manager
• Solid experience in financial planning for projects, including budgeting and forecasting
• Experience in supporting teams in goal setting and tracking of milestones
• Ability to manage risks & issues, with appropriate controls for mitigation
• Proven experience in ensuring delivery of milestones
• Supporting definition of team structure and skills-set to meet the needs of the project
• Supporting awareness of strategic context & high-level planning
• Supporting recruitment of new team members
• Contributing to account commercials & sales
• Assisting with writing Bids and Statements of Work

Nice to have

• Public sector experience and skills in taking projects through service assessments such as GDS gates
• Having worked in secure environments and for high security clients

You don’t meet all the requirements?

Studies show that women and black, Asian and minority ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we’d love you to still apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role here at Zaizi.

SC Clearance:

Zaizi works with UK Central Government departments on a range of projects. To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customers. Due to this restriction we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuously.

£55,000 - £70,000

25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays

Vitality medical insurance

Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution

Group Life Assurance

Cycle scheme

5 days a year for approved Training

WFH equipment allowance

Buy / Sell Holiday

2 days paid volunteering days

Other benefits:

• Flexible working
• Work on exciting projects - make a difference
• Empowered to make decisions
• Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly
• 1-2-1 and team coaching / training available to all our staff

For further information contact- [e-mail]

Nat Hinds-Head of Talent

Kayla Kirby-Talent Acquisition Specialist