Delivery Manager – Technology
Location: Nottingham
Contract: Perm
About the role
We're looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to join Business Services and No7 Beauty Company IT platform. You will oversee the delivery of projects for the platform, partner with business technology managers and product managers / owners, governing delivery plans and release management of all production deployments of the portfolio. You will help deliver a portfolio of projects from our platform technology roadmap, ensuring internal and external delivery teams complete and transition to BAU on time and in full. You will ensure this is achieved to agreed contracted milestones and deliverables and in full compliance with Boots IT Delivery Framework and all applicable governance.
Key responsibilities
- Ensure strict adherence to the Boots IT Delivery Framework for all projects to maintain consistency, full compliance to governance, and achieve successful outcomes.
- Drive financial governance by maintaining control of all project costs and ensure platform teams comply with all approval processes and policies.
- Conduct regular quality checks against each project within your delivery responsibility.
- Ensure efficient and effective resource planning to support delivery of the pipeline, engagement and allocation requests.
- Provide support and coaching to project managers and facilitate escalations if necessary to ensure successful delivery of projects on portfolio.
- Direct project management of several projects.
What you’ll need to have
These are the essential skills or experience needed to succeed in this role.
- Previous experience delivering and leading technology and business change programmes and projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Experience of managing cross-functional and partner teams in multiple locations within matrix organisation.
- Excellent communication and organisation skills.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement
- Excellent attention to details.
Our benefits
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
Why Boots
At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.
What's next
Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
You will complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.
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