About the role
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Scope / (Content Leadership):
- Provides expert guidance and strategic direction on defining and managing scope for complex or high-impact initiatives.
- Develops, implements, and champions scope management strategies, frameworks, and best practices for relevant initiatives.
- Oversees the management of significant scope changes, ensuring strategic alignment and minimal disruption, while proactively identifying and driving improvements to scope-related processes for enhanced delivery efficiency.
Accountability/Problem Solving:
- Leads the analysis of complex and strategic delivery problems across boundaries, eliciting complex needs and influencing decisions.
- Accountable for delivery management on significant initiatives, defining strategic solutions, and driving consensus through persuasive communication and facilitation.
- Proactively identifies strategic opportunities and risks, and mentors colleagues on problem-solving.
Stakeholder Management:
- Identifies key stakeholders, including senior management, across organisational boundaries and analyses complex stakeholder networks.
- Develops and executes comprehensive stakeholder engagement and communication plans.
- Influences stakeholder decisions related to delivery, navigates conflicts to achieve alignment, and builds strong collaborative relationships across the organisation.
Impact/Strategy:
- Provides consistent leadership and significant impact across major products within a product line or domain.
- Drives significant impact on projects and programs by embedding Agile best practices and leading organisational change initiatives.
- Leads the evaluation of strategic solution options, fosters a culture of innovation, and proactively proposes improvements to help implement strategic objectives.
Complexity / (Product Size):
- Manages complex projects or services, potentially across domains, and leads delivery within a program or large initiative.
- Manages highly complex delivery involving multiple dependencies, opportunities, and risks.
- Handles ambiguous delivery requirements and leads the implementation of delivery frameworks while navigating complex stakeholder landscapes.
Business/Technical ability:
- Possesses in-depth business knowledge and understanding of market trends to shape delivery strategies that achieve strategic business objectives.
- Drives business process improvements and innovation, and leads the implementation of Agile frameworks and other delivery best practices.
- Manages large-scale, complex delivery programs and innovates delivery methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
Requirements:
- Proven track record operating in a Delivery Management archetype (e. g., Program Manager, STE, Agile Coach) with extensive experience managing large-scale, complex delivery programs.
- Experience in embedding Agile best practices and leading organisational change initiatives across product lines or domains.
- Demonstrated success in building and maintaining strong relationships with key senior stakeholders and cultivating collaboration across organisational boundaries.
- In-depth business knowledge and an understanding of market trends, with the ability to shape delivery strategies to achieve strategic business objectives.
- Expertise in leading the implementation of Agile frameworks, delivery methodologies, and other best practices.
- Advanced analytical skills to lead the analysis of complex, cross-boundary delivery problems and evaluate strategic solution options.