Delivery Manager

About This Role

This Delivery Manager role involves leading and motivating cross-functional teams to ensure timely completion of sprints and successful project delivery. The position acts as a central communication point, foreseeing risks and organizing activities to maximize team productivity. It suits a seasoned professional with a strong understanding and experience in agile practices.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, organize, and motivate cross-functional teams of medium to medium-high complexity and visibility
• Act as a primary communication hub between various functional departments and the teams to foresee risks, formulate plans, and organize activities to ensure sprints are completed on time
• Act as a change agent and adapt processes to maximize team productivity
• Coach Product leaders on roadmap and backlog management
• Coach the agile team on user story writing, sizing, and acceptance criteria definition
• Drive development of release and sprint roadmaps
• Remove impediments for the agile teams
• Ensure efficient communication between the agile team and the Product Owner
• Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning and PI planning, sprint execution, impediment removal and tracking, sprint review, and retrospectives
• Partner with project and release managers in production deployment activities as necessary
• Work with Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution
• Develop reports on sprint execution status, schedule, and agile metrics such as velocity and cycle time
• Keep team accountable for delivering on planned outcomes (PI and sprint)

Requirements

• Full understanding and experience with execution of agile practices
• Ability to provide varying levels of delivery management oversight and directly influence activities on business-critical efforts
• Serve as a single point-of-contact for removing impediments and coaching the team through challenges
• Use industry-standard best practices to assure delivery of goals, objectives, milestones and deliverables, as well as compliance with all discipline processes and governance channels
• Comprehensive knowledge pertaining to concepts and principles in functional area, especially the ability to coach the team on Agile practices and adherence to Agile methodology
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, creativity, attention to detail, and oral and written communications skills tailored for the intended audience
• Responsibility for understanding and applying risk management discipline in decision making and contributing to his or her function's risk management
• Ability to work independently on broad assignments or under general directions as to scope or objectives