Delivery Manager

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Key role ensuring this high profile business delivers great outcomes

Summary about this job

Programme & Project Management

Company: Absolute IT - 98.9%* of placed candidates will recommend us to others

Location: Auckland

Work type: Full Time

Salary: $140-150K + benefits

Phone: +64-4-648-9644

Fax: +64-7-905-8869

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Detail information about job Delivery Manager. Terms and conditions vacancy

  • Great salary and benefits package
  • Banking/Finance4 Banking/Finance
  • Key leadership role

Your new company in a nutshell:

 

A high profile organisation in the Banking/Finance sector.  They are customer focused and strive to be truly great at what they do.

 

What will you do?

 

As a Delivery Manager you will work across one or more technology domains including API/Integration, Customer Experience, Core Banking, Payments, Data & Analytics or other relevant domains.

 

This is a key part of the Delivery Leadership Group, and you will optimise the flow and delivery of work within a delivery stream or large project/initiative to deliver the agreed business outcomes. 

 

A day in the life:

  • Leading your delivery stream or large complex delivery initiative with multiple squads and small teams working towards shared business outcomes using Agile methodologies
  • Managing effective stakeholder engagement with Product Managers, Portfolio Working Group/Stakeholders
  • Facilitating portfolio increment ceremonies such as PI planning, demos and retrospectives
  • Liaising with project managers around key project milestones and other delivery accountabilities
  • Actively applying the Solutions Delivery values to decision making and working practices
  • Managing dependencies within the delivery stream
  • Balancing capacity and priorities within the delivery stream to ensure a sustainable delivery cadence
  • Working with delivery leads to identify, understand and mitigate risk within the delivery stream
  • Managing delivery stream financials and recoveries to ensure financial targets are met
  • Mentoring delivery leads
  • Working with business stakeholders to define measures of success for delivery stream

Your background, skills and experience:

  • Deep experience leading large, truly agile technology delivery teams to demonstrable outcomes
  • Proven experience within one or more technology domains including APIs/Integration, Customer Experience, Core Banking, Payments, Data Analytics or other relevant domains
  • A relentless focus on continuous improvement
  • 5+ years of experience in leadership roles
  • Expertise implementing Scrum and/or Kanban in organisations or technology functions
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
  • Significant experience delivering technology change in complex environments
  • A high level of empathy and emotional intelligence
  • The ability to inspire, guide, coach and mentor people to get the best from them
  • An interest and awareness of industry trends and desire to continuously learn
  • Previous experience as s Senior Project Manager, Programme Manager or Scrum Master

What it's like to work here:

 

This business offer a competitive, fun and relaxed working environment.  They have a great induction programme and regularly promote from within.

 

What's in it for you?

 

Benefits include but are not limited to:

  • Genuine career progression opportunities
  • Staff only banking benefits
  • Subsidised health insurance
  • Wellbeing initiatives
  • Study support initiative

 

What's next?
For further information please call Lisa or Luwee on 0800 29 89 99  or apply by clicking on the 'Apply for this job' button.

 

NOTE to overseas enquiries and non-NZ residents:
Whereas we welcome international enquiries, only applicants that are legally entitled to work in New Zealand and can make themselves available for interviews in New Zealand will be considered for advertised positions.

Others may not necessarily be responded to.

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