Senior Delivery Manager

Location: Liverpool/Newport/Birmingham Set the standards for delivery management, and explore new and innovative ways of working to improve delivery within the organisation Support and mentor the Delivery Managers within your line management Facilitating Scrum agile ceremonies across several teams, and mentoring the teams on Agile best practices Support the delivery teams to ensure we have the adequate amount of resource to deliver against goals Work with business stakeholders to facilitate effective and efficient delivery of products and services from within your portfolio Define the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes Contribute within the wider Agile Delivery community of practice Develop and utilise meaningful metrics in order to lead teams towards their goals and understand areas for improvement Own and build relationships with the technical teams, Product Owners, senior stakeholders, management and third-party sub-contractors utilising effective and appropriate governance mechanisms Ensure milestones, project plans and risks within your portfolio are managed and maintained, supporting other Delivery Managers within your line management. Proven experience in delivery/ project management with strong background on Agile methodologies. Agile cert preferred (Scrum master, Safe Agilist, MSP) Experience delivering digital products and services and technical programs (eg. Customer facing tools, web platforms, IDAM, Master Data Model, B2C and B2B platforms) Strong understanding of GDS standards, product development lifecycle, Agile frameworks, backlog refinement, user story mapping and CI/CD practices Strong stakeholder management, communication skills across product, design, technology, business analysis functions and end users/customers. Experience with delivery tools such as JIRA, Confluence, ADO and similar Competitive salary Generous pension scheme A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6) Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidaysCrown Commercial Service (CCS) is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK. With over 800 staff, we help thousands of public and third sector buyers in the UK with billions of pounds of spending each year. We have a wide range of commercial agreements to help our customers buy what they need, when they need it - saving time and money.