Delivery Manager (12 month FTC)

Responsibilities:

• Drive Roadmap Delivery Success:
• Oversee the execution of Product & Tech roadmaps to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Manage and optimise capacity plans to meet Client deadlines and business goals, ensuring teams are aware of the outcome they are trying to achieve and how to measure it.
• Track and report on initiatives milestones and deliverables.
• Identify, manage, and resolve dependencies across teams to ensure smooth progress and prevent delays.
• Ensure Transparent Reporting:
• Maintain clear and transparent reporting mechanisms for delivery status and risks.
• Develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Communicate initiative statuses and risks to stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Align with Client Expectations:
• Collaborate with the Client Delivery team to ensure deliverables meet client capabilities, support needs, and timelines.
• Ensure that client feedback is integrated into the delivery process.
• Clarity on Teams’ Effort Distribution:
• Provide clear and detailed insights into team contributions to overall business goals.
• Ensure that team efforts are aligned with strategic priorities.
• Facilitate data-driven decisions by ensuring delivery information reaches the right stakeholders, and maintain a strong effort-to-value ratio in your area.
• Boost Organisational Effectiveness:
• Establish and refine ways of working to foster a scalable and adaptable Product & Tech organisation.
• Implement Agile & Lean processes and tools that enhance efficiency and productivity.
• Act as a change driver and promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
• Enable Product and Tech to Focus on their Core Strengths:
• Eliminate barriers hindering Product teams from dedicating time to innovation and strategic planning.
• Allow Engineering teams to concentrate on technical excellence and execution.
• About You
• Ideally you'll have/be:
• Able to manage the end-to-end delivery of digital/technology products using Agile methodologies across cross-functional product teams.
• Strong understanding of product development process and software development life cycle.
• Comfortable switching between team-level detail and executive-level overviews.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong coaching abilities to empower teams and colleagues to reach their full potential.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• Able to draw on experience to apply the right approach in the right context.
• Comfortable with uncertainty and adept at bringing people along on a change journey.
• Worked in scaling a high-growth SaaS business.
• Apply customer centricity in the way that you work.
• Kaluza Values
• Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:
• Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together.
• From us you’ll get
• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund - to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible Bank Holidays - Giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive Leave Policy - With no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Personal Learning Budget - Upskill, learn and grow!
• Home Office Budget
• And more!
• We want the best people
• We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.
• We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.
• Find out more about working in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn. You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.