Delivery Manager

Summary

Join Version 1, a fast-growing global consultancy, and contribute to our Private Sector and Financial Services teams. We focus on helping clients leverage technology to enhance performance, efficiency, and customer experience. As a Delivery Manager, you will establish and nurture client relationships, ensure cohesive development teams, and deliver exceptional results. You will translate business needs into technical specifications, manage stakeholders, and report on project progress. This role requires strong project management skills, experience with Agile methodologies, and excellent communication abilities. Version 1 offers a comprehensive benefits package, including profit sharing, career development opportunities, flexible/remote work options, financial wellbeing initiatives, employee wellbeing programs, generous leave policies, and educational assistance.

Requirements

• Excellent client-facing skills
• Technical project management experience and the ability to manage projects no matter what the technology involved
• Experience in delivering Software Development projects
• Experience of establishing and running sizeable teams and ensuring effective delivery and team cohesion
• Agile experience and experience of running Agile projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience on JIRA, Confluence
• Exposure or hands-on experience in SDLC and non-SDLC projects in emerging technologies
• A deep-rooted understanding of core project management processes, including SDLC and Agile methodologies, is essential

Responsibilities

• Establishing, building, and maturing relationships with the customers
• Ensuring the development teams are cohesive
• Delivering to delight our customers
• Delivering effectivity and driving projects forward on time, to budget and best quality
• Developing understanding of clients' business, applications, and users
• Effectively communicating technical issues to business users
• Translate business needs to technical specifications
• Stakeholder engagement and management
• Assertively raise risks and issues and drive to closure
• Reporting and facilitating project meetings
• Standard Delivery Manager responsibilities including commercial/budget management, scope management, detailed project planning, RAID analysis, governance, documentation and management of risks and issues

Preferred Qualifications

Candidates with PRINCE2/PMP certification preferred

Benefits

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes