Role: Delivery Manager
Duration: 6 Months Initially
Rate: Up to £550 per day (outside IR35)
Location: Hybrid (Leeds - 2 days per week)
The Role
You will take responsibility for the successful delivery of technology and security-focused projects, working closely with technical teams, Cyber Security, stakeholders and other delivery functions to ensure work is effectively planned, governed and executed.
A key emphasis of the role will be establishing strong project controls and governance.
You will be expected to ensure project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions and reporting are maintained to a consistently high standard.
You will also play an important role in supporting strong Agile delivery practices, helping teams work effectively while ensuring the appropriate level of planning, oversight and governance remains in place.
The successful candidate will need previous experience delivering projects with a significant security element and be comfortable working directly with Cyber Security, InfoSec or security architecture teams.
You do not need to be a Cyber Security specialist, but you must have a good understanding of the security environment and be able to confidently manage security-related requirements, risks, dependencies and delivery activities.
Required Skills and Experience
- Strong Delivery Management or Project Management experience within technology environments
- Proven experience delivering Cyber Security or security-focused technology projects
- Experience working directly with Cyber Security, InfoSec, security architecture or similar technical security teams
- Strong understanding and practical application of Agile delivery processes
- Technically competent, with the ability to hold credible conversations with technical and security teams and understand technical deliveries
- Strong planning skills with experience creating and maintaining detailed project and delivery plans
- Excellent understanding of project governance and delivery controls
- Proven experience managing risks, issues, dependencies, actions and milestones
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills