delivery manager Birmingham, England
Job description
Lead Delivery Manager
Permanent
Grade 6 - £47,573 - £58,981
Working 36.5 Hours per week
Job Overview
This is a thrilling opportunity to become part of a large dynamic, and collaborative delivery team that is committed to delivering sustainable, customer focused value. You will work alongside a diverse team to deliver cutting-edge digital products and services that will enhance the lives of our citizens, businesses, and colleagues.
What we are about
We are the Digital and Technology Services Delivery Team responsible for delivering innovative digital products and solutions. We are focused on delivering value and benefits to our internal customers to support them with achieving their strategic priorities and making a positive change to the lives of citizens and colleagues. Our team has played a crucial role in delivering high-profile initiatives such as the Commonwealth Games, Clean Air Zone and our in-house developed Birmingham Guardian app for field workers. With our new low-code development tool, we have even more potential to create great innovative solutions.
What you will do
This role will offer you the opportunity to be part of a a multi-disciplinary team working with our exciting new Product and Platforms team to help shape and deliver products and new digital services.
As a Lead Delivery Manager, you will:-
- Lead on the delivery of complex products and services that are delivered by multiple teams and have high technical or political risk.
- Manage dependencies, risks and issues of varying complexity, potentially planning and feeding into larger programmes and portfolios
- Create business ‘value realisation’ cases to support approval at Cabinet level
- Work within multidisciplinary teams to scope, plan, forecast and estimate rroduct & project delivery
- Act as servant-leader to your teams, ensuring they have what they need to work towards the delivery of sustained value to our citizens and businesses
- Use a range of tools and processes to communicate plans and progress of value delivery to a range of stakeholders
- Have an in-depth knowledge of Agile and other methodologies
- Be responsible for understanding, managing and communicating to complex stakeholder groups, balancing priorities
- Be able to take an holistic view of all value streams
- Support and coach delivery managers in all aspects of Agile delivery
- Build successful delivery teams by creating an environment of engagement, continuous learning and improvement
Who You Are
You will have the opportunity to help us transform as a truly digital user-centred organisation helping our colleagues to deliver value and benefits through digital products and solutions
- Have a passion for delivering sustained value to customers
- Able to help shape and influence digital transformations
- A sound communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
- Passionate and knowledgeable of working in an agile environment as part of multidisciplinary teams
- Able to coach and lead teams and stakeholders in Agile methodologies
- Be an advocate for new ways of working and constantly innovate.
- Able to solve and unblock issues between teams or departments
- Experience of managing complex budgets
- Experience of resolving high risk commercial management issues
About us
This is an exciting time to be joining Birmingham City Council’s Digital and Technology Services Department. We are Europe’s largest local authority, and with unprecedented investment in people and digital, a solid strategy, empowering leadership and a newly redesigned service to get behind, we are building digital services centred on the needs of our citizens, business and communities that will deliver on Birmingham’s bold ambitions for the city of today and tomorrow.
We are a multidisciplinary team at the heart of transforming public services for the UK’s second largest city. We create, develop, deliver and operate an exceptionally diverse range of services that have a direct impact on improving the lives of 1.2m residents every day.
We are embracing and promoting a truly digital, human centred approach for the whole organisation, underpinned by collaboration, openness and innovation. We take advantage of unparalleled access to data, doing things at scale and using technology creatively to re-imagine the way services are delivered and build the digital council of the future.
For informal enquires please contact Jane James ([email protected]) or David Lilley ([email protected])
You must upload a Supporting Statement and CV via the attachments part of your application. This is required for shortlisting; you need to describe how your experience and skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification . If you do not attach your Supporting Statement and CV, your application will not be considered.
“Interviews for this post will take place virtually via video conferencing. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information”
Closing date 25th July 2023 at 23.59
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We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.
If you require this document in an accessible format, please contact the Culture & Capability Team ([email protected])
Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements , before any employment offer can be confirmed.
Job Description and Person Specification
