Delivery Manager

Role: Delivery Manager 

Location: London/Remote

Contract/Perm: Perm

Start Date: ASAP

We are an independent software and technology consultancy who have clients in the public and private sector. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exciting new digital services for our clients. We focus on understanding our client’s business and work with them to deliver change that makes their business more effective. We are able to support our clients with their strategy, technical design, user experience, software development and delivery into live service. Our multidisciplinary teams have the drive, talent and creativity to take strategies from inception all the way through to successful business adoption.

We operate as a flat organisation, and believe in trusting and supporting all of our team to operate independently, making the most of their expertise in their field. We believe in giving everyone an opportunity to continually learn and grow in the direction they choose, and we actively help and support people to shape the career that they wish to have. We take work-life balance seriously, enabling people to work flexibly where possible and we strive to create a fun and relaxed working environment that allows our team to thrive.

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger company and we seek to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets, each able to contribute in unique ways. This diversity engenders a richer, more creative environment – one in which our people develop and clients are served better. 

Main Responsibilities

Delivery Management

• Responsible for the end to end delivery of projects that Solirius is engaged with

• For supporting and advising day to day activities of the team

• Facilitating key team events/ceremonies

• Responsible for monitoring spend, reporting progress and tracking team velocity

• Tracking risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies

• Responsible for clearing hurdles for the team to ensure that there is a clear path for development and delivery

• Ensuring successful collaboration within the team and within the wider project/programme

• Working with and engaging stakeholders with the delivery team

• Championing best practice methodologies across the team and each discipline

• Exemplifying positive customer focussed behaviour.

• Responsible for acting as the assignment manager for the Solirius team on the client site.

Account Management

• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with our clients and delivering value to them

• Financial management of client accounts

• Serve as key point of contact for assigned client(s)

• Act as the Client subject matter expert

• Develop actionable plans to balance client’s short/long term goals

• Manage and report on overall financial success of the account (s) that you are responsible for

• Resourcing for client accounts

• Identifying new opportunities for Solirius to operate in and contribute to bidding for new work

Specialist skills required We want people with:

• A background in Agile Delivery across the whole lifecycle of technical projects/service development

• A strong experience in Agile scrum methodologies and delivering software in Agile teams

• Previous experience and/or qualifications as a Scrum Master would be beneficial.

• Experience of Delivery Management in the public sector, in accordance with GDS standards

• Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken word with an ability to successfully engage with clients, managers and stakeholders at all levels within a business

• Experience of scaled agile methodologies, e.g. SAFe, LeSS etc

• Experience in building relationships with people and ensuring we deliver value to our clients

• Agile coaching experience would be helpful

• Experience of supporting and developing people

• Self awareness and high Emotional Intelligence

• Experience in maintaining and reporting on budgets

Working with clients

We are looking for experienced Delivery Managers, who have delivered agile projects. You will need to be a great leader of people, able to motivate and engage people to deliver excellence for our customers. You will need to have experience of working with a wide variety of stakeholders and have experience of delivery projects from inception through to adoption.

In addition to working as a Delivery Manager, you will also be required to act as an Account Manager and/or Assignment Manager on client accounts

Broader Team

You'll be expected to work with the whole team. This means working with developers, UXdesigners, senior managers, senior stakeholders - in fact anyone we need you to, to 

produce great digital products for our clients.

Delivery Team

Within Solirius, you will be responsible for helping us to develop the delivery management

practice. This will involve attracting other delivery experts/talent to join our team and to contribute to bids for new work. We want to create digital services that our clients and their customers prefer to use over other channels, and the delivery practice is fundamental to that desire.

About you..

We are looking for people who have a background in critical thinking, enjoy tackling different problems in a structured way and are highly motivated self-starters. Our consultants should have great interpersonal and communication skills and a strong desire to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients.

Our team is our strongest asset, you will be an excellent team player who recognises the strength of the team as a whole and can find their role within the Solirius team. Candidates should be open to working in different locations with different clients. As an account Manager you may be required to travel to multiple locations to meet with clients. Although most of our work is in London, candidates should be happy to travel as client needs dictate.

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience

• Flexible working / Work from home

• Generous annual discretionary bonus

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• 10 days allocated development training per year

• Contributory pension

• Private Healthcare

• Gym membership

• Annual away days and social events

Equality & Diversity:

Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.