Delivery Manager

About Tecknuovo:

We are a technology delivery partner, offering a unique service in the undiscovered sweet spot between consultancy and capability development. There’s a better way to deliver consulting services. We do that by freeing our customers from dependency in everything we do.

We free them from relying on external sourcing by delivering on their complex technology challenges at pace with expert teams. And we eliminate their dependence on suppliers by creating the in-house technical capability they’ll need to build tomorrow.

The quality of our people and teams hinges on our associate model. This is how we work with our community of un-benched, ego-free consultants to mobilise services within 14 days.

About the role:

As a result of our rapid scale, we are looking to expand the number of permanent Delivery Manager’s within our practice. This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to work with some of the very best in the business, creating and applying proven patterns of work to create incredible business outcomes.

As a Delivery Manager, you’ll be responsible for building strong teams from a mixture of disciplines, capable of ensuring the successful realisation of products or services for our clients. You will be embedded within our project teams where you will be hands on with the team on a day to day basis. You will be trusted by the customer and you will ensure that Tecknuovo has the outcome, the customer and our “customer’s customer” front of mind.

In any given week you may find yourself travelling to a client site to build relationships and solve challenges, facilitating a remote planning workshop or coaching/mentoring a person in a client team. Expect to be developing proposals and creating assets alongside other hubs within the business.

Expect variety, pace, and challenge. Having a desire and willingness to share knowledge and co-create is essential. Our Delivery Manager’s are expected to become leaders in their field, so you will be passionate about lean/agile delivery techniques and the latest trends for exceptional technology delivery.

When you are not delivering outstanding value to our clients, you will have the chance to provide thought leadership to technical communities to help build awareness around the best practices we are looking to implement across Tecknuovo’s practices.

About the Delivery Hub:

The Delivery Hub is responsible for ensuring client expectations are exceeded with every interaction and throughout every engagement lifecycle. Delivery is the heart of Tecknuovo, where our reputation, values and behaviours align to ensure successful outcomes and repeat business that aligns with our mission.

You will sit alongside our other hubs (from Engagement, Talent, Marketing, PMO, Finance & Compliance), and is a mixture of permanent and associate consultants providing delivery services to our clients.

Key personal attributes:

• Exceptional communication skills, creating trust through authenticity and knowing when to react and challenge.
• Out of the box thinker who can look beneath the surface of things, rapidly identifying and solving impediments to delivery.
• Ability to work at a rapid pace to meet client and Tecknuovo expectations, adapting to changing requirements quickly and with resilience.
• Ability to work collaboratively as well as alone; able to prioritise workload and safely context switch in a busy role.
• Self-starter who requires little direction.
• A deep passion for technology.

Typical Engagement Stages:

Core roles performed by the delivery hub during the engagement lifecycle.

Pre-engagement/Sales:

• Supporting Engagement hub with qualification and management
• Running discovery (pre-sales) workshops
• Supporting stakeholder mapping
• Identifying new growth opportunities
• Describing requirements and deliverables

Customer on-boarding:

• Project goals and objectives & success criteria
• Account and team structure
• Associate onboarding presentation
• High-level release plan (where applicable)
• Stakeholder mapping
• Associate vetting and onboarding
• Deliverables Validation

Delivery:

• Project delivery (scrum, agile, kanban, waterfall)
• Spotting any new opportunities
• Client QBRs
• Producing any client status reports
• Client stakeholder management
• Maintaining the RAID log for clients in JIRA
• Account Governance Calls
• Sprint planning
• Internal updates on engagements
• Reporting against sprints or overall plan
• Team retrospectives

Key responsibilities:

• You actively listen and engage with stakeholders to understand their business problem or outcome and mapping that back to the technical solution that will deliver on those outcomes.
• Be able to build successful delivery teams. You understand team dynamics and use modern motivational techniques to influence how a team operates.
• Be a catalyst for communication, encouraging team members and clients to speak up and share insight that will safeguard the success of the project.
• Superb facilitation of key client and team workshops, whether in-person or remote.
• An advocate for the use of data in guiding decision making using appropriate metrics.
• Development of brilliant, context specific processes based on modern lean/agile principles that ensure that the work flows effectively
• Establish continuous improvement patterns that allow the team to continually reinvent those processes in pursuit of ever-increasing performance.
• Ensure that data essential for tracking our commercial agreements and demonstrating our value is captured and shared effectively.
• Ensure exceptional levels of quality in both outcomes and outputs, leading to high levels of client satisfaction.
• Be commercially aware, support and understand the constraints of any given project and navigate those constraints
• Be capable of taking a long-term view, with exceptional approaches to identifying and dealing with risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions that may derail any initiative.
• Report back to the business on project status and any risks and issues. Mapping out key stakeholders and points of contact to manage

Experience required:

• Deep understanding of several different delivery methods together with an awareness of their underlying principles, and how those principles can be applied in unconventional environments.
• Ideally have worked within a consultancy or a variety of interesting, challenging organisations.

What we offer:

• A minimum of 27 days of annual leave, as well as your birthday off.
• Private medical insurance including medical, optical and dental cover.
• Comprehensive life assurance.
• Office space located in the heart of London with access to the building’s premium wellness facilities
• Annual allowance for personal and professional training to fuel your career growth.
• Contribution to your pension fund.

Our values

Our values are our anchors, which we hold each other accountable for as a team and as a business.

• Make genuine connections.
• Have the courage to act.
• Embrace the pace.
• Move information freely.
• Be curious, always.

Application process

• Screening call
• Virtual interview
• In-person interview with the team,
• Presentation/task

Equal Opportunities

At Tecknuovo, we're committed to providing and creating an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. We want everyone to have the best chance of succeeding as they move through their application. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer; We want to hear from you if you require any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process. Please email [email protected] to let us know how we can support you through the process with us