Delivery Manager

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data. 

 GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through a number of agencies, for example Mindshare, Essence MediaCom, Wavemaker and Kinetic, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM’s portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business. 

 The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for co-ordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline. 

 This role will work as part of the Investment Systems Team, where we are seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to join our team and lead the delivery of our application products and data solutions. As a Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for managing the on-site delivery team of developers, data engineers, QA engineers, and support engineers; ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. 

What you'll be doing:

• Manage the delivery of multiple product development workstreams simultaneously, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. 
• Manage a large-sized product delivery team with pillars of different tech stacks. 
• Responsible for implementing Agile, SCRUM and KANBAN processes and methods. 
• Maintain the team capacity, boards, sprint backlogs, velocity charts and burn-down charts. 
• Facilitate and support agile ceremonies and team meetings: Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Refinement, Sprint Demo, and Sprint Retrospective. 
• Responsibility for the preparation and execution of events in the whole agile release train. 
• Ensure qualitative development by facilitating methods, processes, and tools. 
• Train the team so that they can live the organizational processes and tools efficiently. 
• Provide regular status reports to stakeholders and customers, highlighting progress, risks, and issues. 
• Monitor progress, identify and mitigate risks and issues, and ensure that goals are achieved. 
• Work closely with stakeholders and customers to ensure that their requirements are understood, and deliverables meet their expectations. 
• Ensure that product documentation is complete, accurate, and up-to-date

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What you'll need:

• 10+ years of experience in project management or delivery management role 
• Possess good leadership and team management skills 
• Strong project or product management skills, including the ability to plan, schedule, and monitor project activities, and manage risks and issues 
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with customers, stakeholders, and team members 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate project risks and issues 
• Keen eye on details 
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Computer Science, Engineering, Business, etc.) or equivalent work experience 
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, etc.) is preferred
• Backlog/kanban management using Azure DevOps preferred 

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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