Senior Delivery Manager

at  Ciklum

Description
Ciklum is looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join our team full-time in the Czech Republic.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organisations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

ABOUT US:

Join a well-established company and a strong team of professionals.
Seize the perks of global opportunities, local approach and start-up spirit.
Boost your skills with modern stacks and industry-leading clients!
Enjoy what you do, do what you enjoy!
Want to learn more about us?
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Requirements

• Experience managing multiple agile teams in projects of 25-75 FTE
• Strong service/client-oriented attitude, focus on an outcome
• Solid understanding of change and expectations management
• A proven track record of successful project implementation in a software environment
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Problem-solving attitude using system-thinking approaches
• Ability to manage contractual terms and financial issues
• Advanced level of spoken and written Englis

As a Senior Delivery Manager, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
We are looking for a passionate, energetic, self-driven manager-leader who will be driving organization and supervision of necessary processes, teams, structure, and technology services composition to successfully deliver what Ciklum Clients expect to achieve their business goals.
The role of the Delivery Manager is to ensure smooth project delivery at all stages within agreed deadlines, scope, quality, and budget.
The Senior Delivery Manager will be the primary point of contact for clients during the delivery phase.

Responsibilities

• Highlighting a project’s potential risks/delays during the delivery process
• Creating and implementing, control and monitoring of a project plan
• Balancing competing constraints on the project with the resources and priorities available
• Building and keeping close relationships with your customers on all levels
• Coordination of external and internal stakeholders that are involved in the project
• Monitoring overall progress and use of resources, initiating corrective action where necessary
• Managing scope, change requests, risks, and resource allocation/utilization
• Invoking configuration management (release process) processes
• Managing possible risks and issues within the limits of time, cost and quality, including the development of contingency plans
• Managing project budget, time, and delivery to vendor-related projects

Note: these high-level responsibilities may undergo modification at a later date subject to mutual agreement

Requirements

• Experience managing multiple agile teams in projects of 25-75 FTE
• Strong service/client-oriented attitude, focus on an outcome
• Solid understanding of change and expectations management
• A proven track record of successful project implementation in a software environment
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Problem-solving attitude using system-thinking approaches
• Ability to manage contractual terms and financial issues
• Advanced level of spoken and written English

Desirable

• Experience in managing multiple distributed teams
• Technical background (software development, QA, DevOps, etc)
• Product Management background
• Knowledge of the latest trends in SW development technologies and tools
• Spoken and written German as a plus
• Experience in creating and running training, workshops, and other educational activities
• Agile and/or PMI certification
• Experience with SAFe or LeSS
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and conducting training

What’s in it for you

• Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and Mental Health (Soulmio) programs. We also provide you with meal allowance & company-paid yoga classes to fuel your mind and body
• Development as a mindset: feel free to participate in building an IT community in your country (Czechitas workshops, lectures on universities, local DevTalk meetups etc.) during working time. Regular annual performance reviews with your manager will help you keep the right growth focus
• Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops) and external (international conferences, our formats of knowledge sharing)
• Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
• Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just dont miss your regular team stand-up
• Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. We offer more than 100 projects you can rotate between: we work with top-notch technologies for international clients (Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Austria etc.) in various domains (banking, health care, e-commerce, construction, logistics)
• Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
• Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events, including weekly breakfasts