Delivery Manager

About the role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of defined workstreams or smaller engagements, ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, budget and quality expectations.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and integrated delivery approaches.
• Build a strong understanding of client objectives, priorities and business outcomes to ensure delivery remains aligned to client needs.
• Understand project team structures, roles, responsibilities and interdependencies to coordinate effective delivery across disciplines.
• Monitor delivery health, identifying emerging risks, bottlenecks and areas where projects may be falling behind plan.
• Develop and implement action plans to address delivery challenges, improve team effectiveness and maintain delivery momentum.
• Coordinate resources across project teams, balancing demand, capacity and capability requirements.
• Manage project financials including forecasting, tracking, reporting and supporting variance management.
• Build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, providing clear communication on progress, risks, issues and outcomes.
• Maintain delivery governance including plans, RAID logs, status reporting, financial tracking and action management.
• Facilitate resolution of issues and dependencies, engaging appropriate stakeholders and escalating where additional support or decisions are required.
• Contribute to estimating, planning, scoping and proposal activities for new opportunities.
• Promote collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement across project teams.
• Support the development of team capability through coaching, knowledge sharing and constructive feedback.
• Qualifications
• Experience delivering projects, workstreams or engagements within complex client environments.
• Strong delivery management foundations, including planning, governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing project financials, including forecasting, budget tracking and variance management.
• Ability to quickly understand client objectives and translate them into practical delivery priorities.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary team structures and how strategy, creative, technology and client teams work together to deliver outcomes.
• Ability to assess delivery health, identify emerging issues and proactively implement corrective actions.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the judgement to escalate issues appropriately when support is required.
• Experience developing delivery plans, managing dependencies and coordinating teams to achieve outcomes.
• Confident communication and relationship-building skills with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Experience contributing to estimation, planning and proposal activities.
• Comfortable working across strategy, creative and technology teams.
• Experience working within consulting, agency or professional services environments is highly regarded.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2, PMP or related project delivery certifications are advantageous.
• About Accenture
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Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects, workstreams or engagements within complex client environments.
• Strong delivery management foundations, including planning, governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing project financials, including forecasting, budget tracking and variance management.
• Ability to quickly understand client objectives and translate them into practical delivery priorities.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary team structures and how strategy, creative, technology and client teams work together to deliver outcomes.
• Ability to assess delivery health, identify emerging issues and proactively implement corrective actions.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the judgement to escalate issues appropriately when support is required.
• Experience developing delivery plans, managing dependencies and coordinating teams to achieve outcomes.
• Confident communication and relationship-building skills with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Experience contributing to estimation, planning and proposal activities.
• Comfortable working across strategy, creative and technology teams.
• Experience working within consulting, agency or professional services environments is highly regarded.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2, PMP or related project delivery certifications are advantageous.
• About Accenture
• Visit us at www.accenture.com
• At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work. As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.
• We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement