IT Delivery Manager - Bradford, United Kingdom - YORKSHIRE WATER LIMITED

YORKSHIRE WATER LIMITED

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Bradford, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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IT DELIVERY MANAGER

Salary:
£45,454 - £67,338 + car allowance + bonus + hybrid (mostly work from home)
Wider benefits include discretionary bonus, private health care, life assurance, enhanced maternity, and adoption packages?(note: some are non-contractual).

Location:
Bradford and hybrid work arrangement

At Yorkshire Water we believe technology holds the key to making the most of this precious resource, and taking care of it, now and in the future.

We have a five-year plan that will see us investing heavily in our Technology.

Enabling us as a departmentto focus on our capabilities, increase our delivery and responsiveness for our customers and develop skilled technical and data experts.

We are now looking for an
I.T.

Delivery Manager to join us on this journey, and the key responsibilities of this role include the following:

Actively understand the needs of the business and build effective internal relationships.
Ensure effective delivery of programmes and projects within portfolio.
Have a thorough understanding of the business objectives and requirements and can translate these into specific Tec Change capabilities.
Understand and promote both Y.W.s and Tec Change strategic requirements and ensure alignment in tactical delivery.
Work with key stakeholders to define and agree the desired strategic requirements and ensure alignment in tactical delivery.
Represent the department function at various stakeholder meetings and workshops.
Ensure sufficient supplier, vendor management and frameworks are in place to meet the specialist Tec Change capability requirements.
Engage, promote, and build the 3rd party relationships to enhance delivery productivity and capability.
Provide oversight of the relevant framework partners to ensure they perform to agreed deliverables and KPIs and manage their ongoing suitability and effectiveness.
Work with procurement and Vendor management on relevant 3rd party tenders and contracts.
Ensure alignment of capital spend and work activity with the regulatory framework of the business.
Manage the yearly and AMP capital budget with sound financial planning that meets all governance requirements.
Ensure that commercial awareness and financial management is promoted and forms the foundation of all business decisions.
Lead a team to provide and efficient and effective delivery capability that meets all agreed delivery targets and measures.
Effectively performance manage Project Managers and partners in the delivery of planned/agreed outcomes taking corrective action where outcomes are deviating from plans.
Ensure all delivery processes are in place and all work streams meet all Tec governance processes and requirements.
Develop and evolve processes in line with Tec governance for the enhanced delivery and management of Tec Change capabilities and outputs.
Manage the ongoing prioritisation and allocation of resources to ensure Tec outputs meet customer requirements and needs.
Provide comprehensive business planning.
Manage the risks and mitigations for each delivery stream.
Advise Y.W. and Tec boards of opportunities in efficiency or best practice in the delivery of the programme.
Ensure Tec Change capabilities products are appropriately handed over to the customer with agreed SLAs and sufficient customer training.
Be an active member of the management team and supporter to the senior leadership team.

What skills are we looking for?

Essential:

Appropriate qualifications and experience in delivery I.T. changes to the organisation.
Experience of managing a multi £m budget.
Broad understanding of the relevant Tec Change capability technologies and systems.
Knowledge of the vendor landscape.
Ability to understand business strategies and objectives and translate them into tech requirements.
A great team player: inspire others, participate, share, pitch in, and enjoy working with others.
Ability to demonstrate relentless drive, energy and determination to deliver sustainable outperformance for Y.W. that rigorously achieves against demanding competitive industry benchmarks and metrics from other organisations.
The ability to work iteratively.
Ability to prioritise and execute tasks.
Ability to absorb complex technical information and communicative effectively to nontechnical audiences.
Ability to develop and work in a teamorientated, collaborative environment.
Ability to pick up and own issues or projects on behalf of the management team.
Strong organisation and personal management skills with the ability to lead and influence.
Possess a strong sense of purpose and proactively seek responsibility and ownership.
Highly motivated and selfreliant with a personal drive for continuous development and demonstrates a strong customer service ethos.
Proven analytical and problemsolving abilities.
High standards of integrity and ethics.

Although you will have a permanent friendly office to inspire collaborative thinking, and there may be occasions when there is a business need to attend the office, we do offer flexible hybrid working arrangements.

We appreciate that we all live busy livesand crave now more than ever a good work/life balance, so together we can discuss what this might look like for you as an individual.