Head of Delivery

Role: Head of Delivery

Salary: Up to £130k + package

Location: Ipswich (Hybrid 3 days Office / 2 days remote). The role will involve some travel to Glasgow.

Fruition are currently recruiting for an experienced Head of Delivery to play a key role in the growth and transformation strategy of a market leading organisation. The role will report to the Chief Technology Officer and will take responsibility for establishing and leading a high performing technology delivery function. The role will lead a team of direct and matrix managed reports across multiple organisations within the group. As fantastic role with a great organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Organisational Design

• Create an effective delivery organisation and operating model
• Define roles, skills gaps and recruit/upskilling the team to ensure capability
• Create a change plan to implement and establish new ways of working

Investment and Portfolio Lifecycle Management

• Own the prioritisation and sequencing process
• Establish and own capacity planning
• Establish governance and stage gates
• Facilitate and guide the investment decision making framework, documentation and tracking

Governance and Ways of Working

• Select, define and continually improve delivery frameworks, methodologies and standards for both project and product delivery
• Instrument the delivery lifecycle with defined reporting cadence and quality to maintain visibility at all levels without drag-factor
• Ensure best practice across planning, estimating, risk and dependency management

Stakeholder and Executive Engagement

• Create trust and strong relationships with executive stakeholders
• Working with Domain Technology Leads translate road maps into implementable delivery plans

Required Skill and Experience

• Proven experience in a Head of Delivery role or similar, taking the lead on technical delivery programmes
• Experience of leading large sale technical programmes.
• Experience of establishing and embedding organisational designs and processes in complex organisational environments.
• Experience of establishing Agile processes and working in product driven environments
• Demonstrable success of growing and developing teams and individuals.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills.

Fruition are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age