Delivery Manager
Date Posted: 21/03/2024
Location: London
Job Type: Full time
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Full time
London - Hybrid
Who are Just?
We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.
We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.
That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.
Purpose
The Delivery Manager is a key player within the change team responsible for delivering change and genuine business value. As capable leaders of cross-functional teams, they will balance progress and risk, ensuring delivery within company standards. They facilitate, direct and drive the delivery of innovative solutions across various domains aligned with business priorities.
They will proactively tackle obstacles and own the delivery of projects from start to finish throughout the change lifecycle with an engaged and curious mindset.
They work closely with the business, change and software engineering communities to understand priorities, develop business cases and plans, and drive early and iterative delivery of business value.
In a fast-paced, agile environment, their ability to adapt and produce results is crucial.
Job Role Accountabilities
The principal responsibilities of the Delivery Manager include but do not stop at:
Own and manage the delivery of important business outcomes
Partner with Sponsors and Business Product Owners to help shape and prioritise business goals, outcomes, benefits, and measures of success for all projects
Develop, agree and communicate business cases, plans, benefits plans, and cost forecasts.
Translate business goals and ‘aspirational’ plans into practical execution plans, refining confidence and certainty levels as delivery progresses.
Drive the plan's execution to meet business priorities, using a proactive approach to identify delivery risks, issues, and dependencies and find ways to deal with them.
Facilitate the delivery of benefits and smooth change transitions to operational use.
Actively manage senior stakeholders and ensure transparency and engagement at all times.
Role-model and take clear ownership of project performance and delivery of results.
Foster cross-functional collaboration and a collaborative and inclusive environment for success. Drive efficient and effective delivery of projects with embedded continuous improvement.
Establish effective project delivery structures with clear roles, holding people accountable across internal and external teams.
Manage and optimise the project backlog and flow of work, supported by objective measurement, retrospective reviews, and proactive improvements.
Synchronise and align delivery roadmaps and plans to manage interdependencies between projects and across all teams involved in delivery.
Identify and manage resource capacity and capability for each project, partnering with the Value Stream Delivery Lead and central Change Portfolio team.
Leverage appropriate internal and external delivery standards and best practices to optimise project delivery and results.
Lead the identification and management of risks, issues, and dependencies and escalate when necessary.
Focusing on delivery insight and value over administration and control.
Continuously assessing performance and learning to drive continuous improvement.
Build, develop and lead project delivery teams.
Build, develop, and lead a results-driven project delivery team with a proactive learning culture, bringing together sub-teams into an effective end-to-end delivery model for working with pace, trust, transparency, and focus on achieving goals.
Support developing and coaching team members' capabilities, providing on-the-job coaching training.
Establish a robust ‘one team’ structure with appropriate virtual delivery leadership structures for all people contributing to the delivery of a project across the business and Just Delivery teams
Qualifications
Part or fully qualified accountant - Desirable
Relevant project, change and business management qualifications or certifications - Desirable
Experience and skills
The Delivery Manager should have a strong understanding of project and change management methodologies, tools, and techniques and good communication and collaboration skills.
A proven track record in change delivery management in an agile, multi-disciplinary, and complex commercial environment.
Broad experience with delivery methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban
Experience in Financial Services
Understanding and experience of the Financial Services control environment and the challenges therein
Extensive delivery management experience in multi-functional projects
Proven experience project managing within Treasury and Finance is essential
Company Benefits
A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
Why Just?
We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.
Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.
What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.