Digital Delivery Manager

Salt’s client, a UK Fashion Retailing Giant is looking for an exceptional Digital Delivery Manager to support with driving forward and delivering their outcome-focused digital and systems change across their organisation. In this role, you will lead on the delivery of all digital development as well as technical systems development to support their business objectives.Working closely with the Dev team to ensure business requirements are understood, supplier resources are committed to delivery and projects are kept on track.This will be an initial 3 month contract role with the intention to extend thereafter.

Key Role Requirements:

• Ability to take a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, contingency planning and roadmapping
• Manage the end to end delivery of digital projects and product enhancements and technology infrastructure change
• Build and maintain motivated delivery teams, including third party development resource, and ensuring that there is an iterative plan to work towards
• Effectively drive the wider Digital team to work at pace, ensuring the team are working towards delivery commitments
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with all key stakeholders and communicate the plan, planning assumptions and progress.
• Plan projects and product enhancements in sufficient detail to ensure integration of all activities and identification of dependencies
• Pro-actively manage budget, risk and resources in conjunction with internal stakeholders
• Ensure all necessary cross-functional resources are identified and committed to the delivery plan
• Communicate to ensure that all resources understand their roles and responsibilities
• Direct and motivate the delivery team to achieve the desired results, often using matrix management, and ensure effective communication is maintained throughout the project
• Ensure effective management of the Dev team and suppliers

Key Skills Required:

• Proven experience using a range of agile project management methods
• Experienced with managing third parties through the full project delivery lifecycle
• Hold previous experience with managing cross-functional delivery teams
• Experience in matrix-managing delivery resources
• Demonstrable experience with introducing agile and lean practices into an organisation
• Has a deep knowledge of and leads on a range of agile and lean tools and techniques, with an ability to coach within and outside of the team
• Able to maintain, influence and motivate a team and ensure that the work is understood externally