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As a Senior Delivery Manager you will be immersed inside a Product Team in ETO and be accountable for driving successful, predictable delivery. You will enable timely flow of work and information, support release and risk management and proactively shape team competency and capacity to meet delivery outcomes.
You will work closely with the Product Manager to assist balance priorities, manage dependencies and create an environment in which teams can perform at their best. You will not have direct line management accountability, but your impact and leadership will be crucial to the success of the team and the wider organization.
Additional roles and accountability are:
Responsible for release planning and release management including ownership and administration of relevant controls, approvals and measures
Input into product budgets includes manpower, skills and third party expenditures for forecasting and cost tracking purposes.
Proactively managed and reported delivery of risks and cross-team dependencies
Enabling effective cooperation across product, technical and operational stakeholders
Supporting the formation and ongoing development of delivery teams, including encouraging experimentation and learning.
Be the senior point of contact for delivery issues in your area of responsibility
This post is hybrid and the successful candidate will be required to spend 40-60% of their working time face to face, collaborating at their designated location. In addition to our hybrid principles, we will consider other flexible working requests from day one of your employment, including other work arrangements when you require changes for a disability or long-term health condition.
About Me
You are a seasoned delivery professional who excels in a fast moving, complex setting and is comfortable influencing without formal authority.
This post is suitable for someone who can provide strong technical expertise and delivery management experience and translate between engineering detail and delivery outcomes.
Minimum requirements:
Experience working in agile delivery teams, Scrum and/or Kanban
Experience in leading or enabling software delivery teams
• Strong stakeholder and customer management skills
Practical knowledge of release management and risk management
Experience in working with cross functional, distributed teams including onshore and offshore collaboration
Strong communication and facilitation skills
If you meet the basic qualifications above we invite you to apply. If you can also show, your application will be even better:
Desirable criteria:
A probabilistic and data driven approach to delivery management
Experience in managing dependencies and risk mitigation of delivery
An unquenchable thirst for constant development, learning and experimentation
Confidence courses, rituals and huge group sessions
Experience of enabling teams and supporting decentralised decision making
For the full job description please visit our careers page at the link at the bottom of the advert.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer and are committed to equity and inclusion and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. Applicants who choose to take up the Offer of an Interview commitment in the DC scheme and declare a handicap or a long term health condition will be assessed equally with all other applicants who best fulfil the minimal criteria for the post. Where it is not practical and/or suitable to interview everyone who meets the basic criterion, priority will be given to those candidates who best satisfy the minimal criteria, as would be the case for any candidates who do not have a handicap or long-term health condition.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an accredited sponsor for qualified posts and applicants for the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. Refer to the gov.uk website for assistance to see whether you yourself are eligible to apply, depending on the role.
Benefits & Rewards
We’re here to help you succeed at work and to enjoy life outside of work. In addition to attractive compensation, we provide a world-class, flexible rewards program, with family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits such as:
28 days annual leave and bank holidays
• Private medical insurances • Permanent health insurances
Annual discretionary bonus
Personal pension program for a group
Life cover up to 4 x annual salary
Green travel initiatives
Want to unlock your potential? Apply today.
We want to back up our candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. Closing date for all applications will be 11th May. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be interviewed shortly after it closes.
Recruitment Process
If you get shortlisted and go through the phases you might expect:
One application question at CV and cover letter point
A 15 minute phone call screening with the Hiring Manager.
Virtual interview, MS Teams, First round. You will be given a brief to complete a role related work which will need to be completed via email prior to your interview.
Final interview: face to face at our Cambridge offices.
If you need any reasonable changes to be made during the recruitment process owing to a handicap or a long-term health condition, you will be able to inform us in the online application form. We will try our best to meet your requirements.
Those who are successful in their application will be required to undergo satisfactory background checks including the DBS as they would be working in a regulated industry.
We are dedicated to a transparent recruitment procedure. Therefore applications should be sent through our official online application process. Please do not email your CV directly to our recruiters. If you have technical problems or need help submitting your online application, please contact the Recruiter.
Why to Join us?
Seize the opportunity to pursue potential with us. You will be working in a collaborative team that is developing and enhancing ways to serve students, instructors and researchers around the world, for the good of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission in an environment that encourages difference, change and aspiration will stimulate your own growth, development and progress.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is devoted to building an environment where everyone may have a successful career, feel safe to speak up, and continue learning to better together. We encourage applications from all candidates regardless of demographic parameters (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural or social class/background.
We value diversity of thinking, background and approach and feel it leads to greater achievements. We want to hear from people from all origins and communities and are actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of various communities.
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