Agile Delivery Manager

at  Redbridge USA Inc

Redbridge Debt and Treasury Advisory, an independent consulting firm, provides payments and debt advisory services to CFOs and Treasurers of multinational corporations. Our team is composed of experts in treasury, cash management services and financing, applicable to Fortune 1000 companies. Redbridge also owns a data and software branch, Redbridge Analytics, that develops and maintains bank relationship management SaaS solutions as well as delivering data and reporting services to its clients. Redbridge is wholly owned by its founders and employees, ensuring independence and preventing conflicts of interest with our clients. With offices in Paris, Houston, New York, London and Geneva, we are a global consulting firm: https://www.redbridgedta.com

BUSINESS SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Communication: competent at engaging people at all levels, knows when to challenge and ask relevant questions.
• Project management, Organization and self-discipline: result oriented, ability to define clear milestones and follow a project plan
• Emotional Intelligence: recognises, understands and manages their own emotions and recognizes, understands, shares and influences the emotions of others.
• Servant Leadership: leads by example. Serves the needs of the team by serving its team members. Put the needs of others first and help people develop and perform as highly as possible
• Ability to articulate clearly technical problems in a simplified way
• Team player: working with colleagues from across the business and customers
• Understanding of the needs of customers
• Forward thinking & innovative mindset to consider future possibilities as well as new ways to test, learn and optimize

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Knowledge and experience in the following areas:
• Agile project management framework (scrum)
• Fluency in topics, initiatives, and processes across Transformation, Data Analytics, and Engineering
• Previous experience with JIRA & Confluence

EDUCATION/TRAINING:

• Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken is essential. French would be a plus
• University-educated
• Any project management type certification would be a plus

ABOUT THE ROLE:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Agile Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of our technology transformation initiative and support our data and software department scaling programme.
This role will be pivotal in developing a new data platform-based product in collaboration with top tier external consultants.
During the course of its execution you will oversee the technology transformation program, ensuring all milestones are aligned with stakeholders’ expectations and delivered on time, within scope, and budget. You will monitor a wide range of processes and report progress to the Program’s steering committee whilst managing quality levers and RAIDs within the team and across the organisation.
Once the program is completed, you will support the scaling program of the Data and Software department by leading all agile ceremonies with different teams, and leading and supporting the implementation of common best practices in order to build high performing delivery teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Delivery Management: manage and ensure the progress of project work, “continuous flow” and adherence to team commitments. Includes tracking of work, management of risks, and remediation of issues.
• Program Management: Develop and control deadlines, budgets, and activities. Assess program performance (KPIs building and monitoring) and aim to maximize ROI. Apply change, resource management as required. Prepare reports for program directors and steering committee, ensure communication across stakeholders, internal and external.
• Scope Management: embrace flexibility in requirements change to maximize the stakeholder value whilst balancing management of delivery and expectations of required objectives within a defined timeframe. Understanding which scope management techniques to employ based on the impact of the change. Establish a strong partnership with Product Owner and Tech Lead to ensure effective prioritization that balances business value, quality and other constraints.
• Risk Management: map and comprehend the risks involved in several dimensions of the work, aiming to prevent them by reducing and mitigating them when possible.
• Stakeholder Management: identify, analyse, plan and implement actions that engage and build relationships as well as sustain them long term through effective expectation management, so as to enable each party to reach their goals.
• Scrum Ceremonies: Prepare and lead agile ceremonies and key committees with multiple agile teams. Coordinate cross-product activities, lead and support the implementation of common best practices across teams.
• Facilitation: steer team and stakeholders to work well, both in defining a common vision, making decisions, achieving their goals and creating a relational climate where trust prevails and communication is fluid, empathic and honest.
• Agile & Lean Principles: guide and champion lean and agile principles for achieving quality, adaptability, speed & alignment. This Includes the practices, techniques and tools that support those principles, and an understanding of when things may or may not be applicable in a situation or context. Prepare and hold agile ceremonies.
• Build High Performing Teams: enable a group of people who share a common vision, goals, metrics and who collaborate, challenge and hold each other accountable, to achieve outstanding results. Understand individuals, their motivations and provide them the support needed so they can excel in their roles.
• Giving & Receiving Feedback: solicit and engage with feedback on a continuous basis. Having timely, actionable and meaningful conversations about performance for the purpose of shaping behaviours and fostering learning, with the goal of strengthening confidence and improving the effectiveness of self and others.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

• Previous experience leading and managing agile transformation programs
• Open minded, agile mindset
• Passion for excellence
• Attention to details
• Resilient and hard-working
• Able to work effectively in a cross-border team environment.
• Strong analytical, written and oral communication skills
• Strong planning and execution abilities