- Location
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom · published · Derby, England, United Kingdom
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Transportation
- Seniority
- Manager
- Source
- Workable
Description
Job title: Senior Delivery Manager
Team: Data and AI team.
Location: This role will be hybrid and require 2 days per week on-site in Manchester or Derby.
As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for the effective delivery of complex and high-risk products/projects and services. working closely with all roles in a multidisciplinary team on client projects, driving the initiation, planning, implementation and close down phases in line with client goals and strategic objectives.
You will be:
- Building and maintaining delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
- Managing complex internal and external dependencies.
- Managing risk identification, mitigation, escalation and resolution.
- Acting as the escalation point and resolve large or high-risk commercial management issues.
- Managing client/stakeholder engagement activities, including project reporting
- Able to communicate efficiently and effectively
- Able to remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations
Benefits
<p><strong>Working at Methods </strong></p><p>Methods exist to improve society by helping people make better decisions with data. Combining passionate people, sector-specific insight, and technical excellence to provide our customers an end-to-end data service. </p><p>We use a collaborative, creative and user centric approach to data to do good and solve difficult problems. Ensuring that our outputs are transparent, robust, and transformative. We value discussion and debate as part of our approach. We will question assumptions, ambition, and process – but do so with respect and humility. <br> <br> We relish difficult problems, and overcome them with innovation, creativity, and technical freedom to help us design optimum solutions. Ethics, privacy, and quality are at the heart of our work, and we will not sacrifice these for outcomes. <br> <br> We treat data with respect and use it only for the right purpose. Our people are positive, dedicated, and relentless. Data is a vast topic, but we strive for interactions that are engaging, informative and fun in equal measure. But maintain a steely focus on outcomes and delivering quality products for our customers. </p><p>We are passionate about our people; we want out colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy. </p><p><strong>By joining us you can expect </strong></p><p>· Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience </p><p>· Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society </p><p>· Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership </p><p>· A supportive and collaborative environment </p><p></p><p><strong>As well as this, we offer: </strong></p><p>· Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training </p><p>· Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme </p><p>· Social - office parties, pizza Friday and commitment to charitable causes </p><p>· Time off - 25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy 10 extra days each year </p><p>· Volunteering – 2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation </p><p>· Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution </p><p>· Life Assurance of 4 times base salary </p><p>· Private Medical Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependents included) </p><p>· Worldwide Travel Insurance which is non-contributory (spouse and dependents included) </p>