Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Agency: Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Cambridge, East of England, England
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: £50900 – £68000 / year

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Job Description

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About the position

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be immersed in a Product Team in ETO and be accountable for driving successful, predictable delivery. You will enable the timely flow of work and information, support release and risk management, and proactively shape team competency and capacity to meet delivery outcomes.

You will work closely with the Product Manager to assist in balancing priorities, managing dependencies, and creating an environment in which teams can perform at their best. You will not have direct line management accountability, but your impact and leadership will be crucial to the success of the team and the wider organization.

Additional roles and accountability are:

• Responsible for release planning and release management, including ownership and administration of relevant controls, approvals and measures
• Input into product budgets includes manpower, skills, and third-party expenditures for forecasting and cost tracking purposes.
• Proactively managed and reported on the delivery of risks and cross-team dependencies
• Enabling effective cooperation across product, technical, and operational stakeholders
• Supporting the formation and ongoing development of delivery teams, including encouraging experimentation and learning.
• Be the senior point of contact for delivery issues in your area of responsibility

This post is hybrid, and the successful candidate will be required to spend 40-60% of their working time face-to-face, collaborating at their designated location. In addition to our hybrid principles, we will consider other flexible working requests from day one of your employment, including other work arrangements when you require changes due to a disability or long-term health condition.

About Me

You are a seasoned delivery professional who excels in a fast-moving, complex setting and is comfortable influencing without formal authority.

This post is suitable for someone who can provide strong technical expertise and delivery management experience and translate between engineering detail and delivery outcomes.

Minimum requirements:

• Experience working in agile delivery teams, Scrum, and/or Kanban
• Experience in leading or enabling software delivery teams
• Strong stakeholder and customer management skills
• Practical knowledge of release management and risk management
• Experience in working with cross-functional, distributed teams, including onshore and offshore collaboration
• Strong communication and facilitation skills

If you meet the basic qualifications above, we invite you to apply. If you can also show, your application will be even better:

Desirable criteria:

• A probabilistic and data-driven approach to delivery management
• Experience in managing dependencies and risk mitigation of delivery
• An unquenchable thirst for constant development, learning, and experimentation
• Confidence courses, rituals, and huge group sessions
• Experience of enabling teams and supporting decentralised decision-making

For the full job description, please visit our careers page at the link at the bottom of the advert.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer and are committed to equity and inclusion, and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. Applicants who choose to take up the Offer of an Interview commitment in the DC scheme and declare a handicap or a long-term health condition will be assessed equally with all other applicants who best fulfil the minimal criteria for the post. Where it is not practical and/or suitable to interview everyone who meets the basic criterion, priority will be given to those candidates who best satisfy the minimal criteria, as would be the case for any candidates who do not have a handicap or long-term health condition.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an accredited sponsor for qualified posts and applicants for the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. Refer to the gov.uk website for assistance to see whether you yourself are eligible to apply, depending on the role.

Benefits & Rewards

We’re here to help you succeed at work and to enjoy life outside of work. In addition to attractive compensation, we provide a world-class, flexible rewards program, with family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits such as:

• 28 days of annual leave and bank holidays
• Private medical insurances
• Permanent health insurances
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Personal pension program for a group
• Life cover up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel initiatives

Want to unlock your potential? Apply today.

We want to back up our candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. Closing date for all applications will be 11th May. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be interviewed shortly after it closes.

Recruitment Process

• If you get shortlisted and go through the phases, you might expect:
• One application question at the CV and cover letter point
• A 15-minute phone call screening with the Hiring Manager.
• Virtual interview, MS Teams, First round. You will be given a brief to complete a role-related work, which will need to be completed via email before your interview.
• Final interview: face-to-face at our Cambridge offices.

If you need any reasonable changes to be made during the recruitment process owing to a handicap or a long-term health condition, you will be able to inform us in the online application form. We will try our best to meet your requirements.

Those who are successful in their application will be required to undergo satisfactory background checks, including the DBS, as they will be working in a regulated industry.

We are dedicated to a transparent recruitment procedure. Therefore, applications should be sent through our official online application process. Please do not email your CV directly to our recruiters. If you have technical problems or need help submitting your online application, please contact the Recruiter.

Why Join us?

Seize the opportunity to pursue potential with us. You will be working in a collaborative team that is developing and enhancing ways to serve students, instructors, and researchers around the world, for the good of individuals, society, and the world. Sharing our mission in an environment that encourages difference, change, and aspiration will stimulate your own growth, development, and progress.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is devoted to building an environment where everyone may have a successful career, feel safe to speak up, and continue learning to better together. We encourage applications from all candidates regardless of demographic parameters (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity, and sexual identity), cultural or social class/background.

We value diversity of thinking, background, and approach, and feel it leads to greater achievements. We want to hear from people from all origins and communities, and are actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of communities.

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online for this job

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