
Delivery Manager
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Telford • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Ensure teams meet agreed delivery timescales, within cost and to required quality standards.
- Proactively manage dependencies, overcome obstacles, and maximize value within constraints.
- Manage and communicate risks, cost budgets, productivity, and team resources.
- Build and maintain motivated and appropriately skilled teams.
- Ensure teams collaborate, communicate, and focus on priorities, aligning with future contract and market needs.
- Enforce agreed standards for delivery, including agile best practices and modern delivery methods.
- Provide input to project managers for planning and integration, surfacing team interfaces and dependencies.
- Control and monitor budgets and forecasts, reviewing actuals versus forecast to ensure commitments are met.
- Manage internal and external stakeholders, including team members, project managers, service delivery managers, and customers.
- Participate in leadership and delivery reviews as required.
- Raise timely awareness of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, liaising with project and service delivery managers as appropriate.
- Update and control team capacity plans, ensuring accurate data for review cycles.
- Empower teams to follow training plans and meet future skill demands, contributing to resource and succession planning.
Requirements
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience managing medium to large teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities (internal and external).
- Advanced organizational and planning skills, including capacity management and resource forecasting.
- Proficient in risk, issue, and dependency management across multiple projects and services.
- Effective communication and reporting skills, able to provide clear updates to all levels of stakeholders.
- Ability to drive continuous improvement and implement best practices in delivery environments.
- Commitment to developing and empowering teams, supporting training and succession planning.
Benefits
- Countless training and development opportunities
- Access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
risk managementissue managementdependency managementcapacity managementresource forecastingagile best practicesproject planningbudget controlforecastingteam management
Soft Skills
leadershipstakeholder managementrelationship buildingorganizational skillsplanning skillscommunication skillsreporting skillscontinuous improvementteam empowermenttraining support