- Pay Rate:
Up to £700 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 12 months
- Coventry
QAD/1068/1905
Role: Senior Digital Delivery Manager
Contract Length: anticipated 12 months
Location: Predominantly remote - Coventry meetings approx. 1 per month
Our client is within central government and they are looking to hire a Senior Digital Delivery Manager.
As the Senior Digital Delivery Manager, you will be accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high-risk products and services
As the Senior Digital Delivery Manager you will have at least five years’ experience working in a similar role and experience across a range of products and services, throughout the entire product life cycle and have responsibility and accountability as the main point of escalation
We are looking for a Senior Digital Delivery Manager with strong communication skills and the ability to engage senior stakeholders, along with the ability to Lead teams in agile and lean practices and recognised as an expert.
As the Senior Digital Delivery Manager you will have the following responsibilities:
- Lead teams in agile and lean practices and recognised as an expert.
- Always innovating and can create and tailor new ways of working.
- Take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers, negotiating with them to get good value.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate discussions about high risk and complexity within constrained timescales and represent the community to large audiences (internal and external).
- Negotiate, influence or set budgets in a complex environment and able to input in to business cases.
- Apply experience of multiple parts of the product life cycle and recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop.
- Recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these.
- Actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team, identifying innovative ways to unblock issues. Identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated, coaching the organisation to inspect and adapt.
- Lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment.
As the Senior Digital Delivery Manager you will have worked in a similar role and will have the following skillset:
- Demonstrable experience of project managing a technical supplier contract (delivery and commercial) in the delivery of a complex financial system (ideally an ERP implementation to include the HR element).
- Extensive technical project management experience (including Agile delivery), managing BAs, Architects, Business Change analysts and the full range of business stakeholders.
- Demonstrable experience of service transition from legacy systems to new solution implementation, including the decommissioning of complex /highly integrated legacy systems.
Desirable:
- Ideally experienced in Dynamics 365 implementations (in particular Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations).
- The project is likely to be a combination of Agile and Waterfall as required, therefore experience of both is preferable.
- Significant experience of Finance projects with a really good understanding of the Finance processes and finance vernacular.
Contract Length: anticipated 12 months
INSIDE IR35: Up to £700 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Location: Predominantly remote - Coventry meetings approx. 1 per month
Interview Process: MS Teams
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