Summary

As a senior delivery manager you will be accountable for the delivery of products and services within BEIS Digital.

You will work with either established or newly formed multi functional teams on a variety of different project, that vary both in scale and scope. These can concern either internal services to be delivered in conjunction with the technology team, or public facing ones delivered in partnership with the Digital and Data team.

You will be expected to work with a diverse staff including both permanent and contract resources under the direction of the Head of Digital Project Delivery. The complexity or breadth of products or teams will vary in this role, depending on the context. As G7 Delivery Manager you will be expected to directly manage the delivery of multiple different projects or large complex products and projects made up of different teams, you will also be expected to provide leadership and oversight over a broader portfolio of projects aligned to a . You will be charged with You will line manage several permanent Delivery Managers both within the projects you run and beyond. You will participate in a diverse community of Digital Delivery practitioners and will be expected to participate in it and help grow it.

Job description

As senior delivery manager you will be responsible for the building maintaining and improving the team.

In this role, you will:

• Lead on large and complex pieces of work potentially involving multiple teams;

• Procure and manage suppliers and delivery partners;

• Manage costings budgets and finance for projects/products;

• Bring together a team, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well;

• Ensure that products and projects are delivered to user needs and with the agreed time/cost;

• Identify obstacles and help the team to overcome them;

• Manage dependencies and engage with stakeholders across BEIS Digital and beyond;

• Shepheard projects through the internal and external governance;

• Work in conjunction with the architecture and assurance teams to ensure that products and services align with the appropriate standards;

• Document and report project status including managing risks, issues and dependencies;

• Establish appropriate governance for the projects and products you are involved in;

• Focus the team on what is most important to the delivery of products and services;

• Encourage and facilitate continuous improvement of the delivery team, creating a supportive environment for the team and space for development;

• Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques;
 

Responsibilities

• Delivery method . You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use. You can recognise when something does not work and encourage a mindset of experimentation. You can adapt and reflect, be resilient and have the ability to see outside of the process. You can use a blended approach depending on the context. You can measure and evaluate outcomes. You know how to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes. Expert

• Commercial management. You can act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers. You understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department. You know how and when third parties should be brought into digital, data and technology (DDaT) projects. Practitioner

• Financial management. You know how to balance cost versus value. You can consider the impact of user needs. You can report on financial delivery. You can monitor cost and budget; you know how and when to escalate issues. Practitioner

• Agile and Lean practices You are skilled in agile delivery, understanding the roles within the team and how they work together. You will be able to choose the appropriate methodology according to the circumstances and apply the appropriate approach. You will have experience of working across methodologies and choosing the correct practices for the situation at hand and be able to translate delivery principles and concepts to laypeople Expert

• Life-cycle perspective. You recognise when to move from one stage of a product life cycle to another. You can ensure the team is working towards the appropriate service standards for the relevant phase. You can manage delivery products and services at different phases. Expert

• Maintaining delivery momentum. You can facilitate the delivery flow of a team, managing the pace and tempo. You can actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team. Expert

• Documentation: you will create and maintain documentation for the delivery team capturing risks, issues, decisions, dependencies and actions. You will report into the BEIS Digital Portfolio board as well as any other relevant stakeholders or boards. You will monitor and track progress using the appropriate tools and techniques and you will report and escalate where necessary Practitioner

• Making a process work. You can identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. You can add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You know how to guide teams through the implementation of a new process. Expert

• Planning. You understand the environment and can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks. You can use data to inform planning. You can manage complex internal and external dependencies. You can provide delivery confidence. You can remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations. You ensure that teams plan appropriately for their own capacity. Expert

• Team dynamics and collaboration. You know how to bring people together to form a motivated team. You can help to create the right environment for a team to work in and can empower them to deliver. You can recognise and deal with issues. You can facilitate the best team make-up depending on the situation. Expert

• Resourcing You will be able to bring together a team from both permanent and contingent resource. You will be able to use the BEIS Digital commercial agreements to draw from available pools of resource or procure individuals and teams Practitioner

Technical Skills

You will be assessed on the following Technical Skills at Interview

1) Agile and Lean practices

You know how to coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. You are a recognised expert that advocates these approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. You can create or tailor new ways of working; you are always innovating.

2) Life-cycle perspective.

You can apply experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these. You are able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Delivering at Pace
• Developing Self and Others

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Agile and Lean practices.
• Life-cycle perspective.

Benefits

BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.