We have excellent contract opportunity for Product Delivery lead - IMS
Posted 3 days ago by Hays IT - HTS - Southend
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
Waterside, UK
Summary: Lead the delivery excellence of next-generation IMS AI products by ensuring disciplined execution and cross-business alignment. This role focuses on the rollout of AI-enabled Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) products in collaboration with a key operational partner. The position is a 6-month contract with the potential for extension, requiring frequent business travel and a hybrid working arrangement. The role is classified as inside IR35 due to the use of an umbrella company for payment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive Delivery Excellence: Oversee delivery execution across IMS product lines, ensuring scope, budget, quality, and timelines are met.
- Strengthen Co-Development Partnership: Maintain a high-trust relationship with partner AI and operational leadership teams.
- Embed Agile Ways of Working: Embed Agile practices and continuous improvement, ensuring disciplined use of tools such as Jira and roadmaps.
- Align Group Roadmaps: Maintain alignment of IMS roadmaps across operating companies, including dependencies and rollout plans.
- Enable Scaled Impact: Drive best-practice sharing and IP flow across the organisation and partner groups to accelerate value realisation.
- Lead Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Manage delivery teams across multiple products, with clear performance oversight, coaching, and structured delivery rhythms.
- Governance & Control: Ensure delivery teams operate within relevant governance, risk, and control frameworks.
- Communicate with Clarity: Provide structured, concise reporting for executives, programme forums, and cross-functional groups.
Key Skills:
- Delivery Leadership: A proven track record in product, programme, or delivery leadership in complex environments (ideally AI, digital, or transformation programmes).
- Agile Expertise: Deep practical experience embedding Agile delivery at scale.
- Stakeholder Influence: Exceptional stakeholder and relationship-building skills, particularly across matrixed organisations and senior leadership groups.
- Structured Problem-Solving: Consulting-level capability to operate in ambiguity, synthesise complex problems, and drive decisions.
- Operational Discipline: Strong reporting discipline with the ability to communicate clearly across executive, engineering, and frontline audiences.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Waterside
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Lead the delivery excellence of next-generation IMS AI products.
As the organisation accelerates the co-development of IMS AI capabilities with a key operational partner, this role ensures disciplined execution, cross-business alignment, and a high-performance delivery culture supporting the rollout of AI-enabled Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) products.
Contract - 6 months (Potential to extend)
Pay - attractive daily rate through Hays associated Umbrella (Inside IR35)
Location - Waterside (3 days per week onsite)
Travel - frequent business travel
What You'll Do
- Drive Delivery Excellence: Oversee delivery execution across IMS product lines, ensuring scope, budget, quality, and timelines are met.
- Strengthen Co-Development Partnership: Maintain a high-trust relationship with partner AI and operational leadership teams.
- Embed Agile Ways of Working: Embed Agile practices and continuous improvement, ensuring disciplined use of tools such as Jira and roadmaps.
- Align Group Roadmaps: Maintain alignment of IMS roadmaps across operating companies, including dependencies and rollout plans.
- Enable Scaled Impact: Drive best-practice sharing and IP flow across the organisation and partner groups to accelerate value realisation.
- Lead Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Manage delivery teams across multiple products, with clear performance oversight, coaching, and structured delivery rhythms.
- Governance & Control: Ensure delivery teams operate within relevant governance, risk, and control frameworks.
- Communicate with Clarity: Provide structured, concise reporting for executives, programme forums, and cross-functional groups.
What You Bring
- Delivery Leadership: A proven track record in product, programme, or delivery leadership in complex environments (ideally AI, digital, or transformation programmes).
- Agile Expertise: Deep practical experience embedding Agile delivery at scale.
- Stakeholder Influence: Exceptional stakeholder and relationship-building skills, particularly across matrixed organisations and senior leadership groups.
- Structured Problem-Solving: Consulting-level capability to operate in ambiguity, synthesise complex problems, and drive decisions.
- Operational Discipline: Strong reporting discipline with the ability to communicate clearly across executive, engineering, and frontline audiences.
Preferred Background
- Experience in AI, digital transformation, aviation MRO, or large-scale operational delivery.
- Prior experience in a leading consultancy (Strategy, Delivery, or Digital) desirable.
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Ability to influence across multiple operating companies and diverse stakeholder groups.
- Intrapreneurial mindset with strong initiative and the ability to create structure where needed.