Senior Delivery Manager

Role Overview

As an NEC Digital Senior Delivery Manager you will support our clients through every stage of the delivery lifecycle, helping to ensure the projects run smoothly and efficiently. Whether it’s planning, execution, or overcoming unexpected challenges, your focus is on providing practical support to help turn the client goals into tangible outcomes. You will be responsible for the multidisciplinary project team made up of technical architects, scrum lead, business analysts, designers, developers and other specialists.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure the projects are delivered on-time and on-budget and key milestones are achieved through the life-cycle of the project
• Project is delivered to a high quality and achieves the specified goals and requirements of the client
• Internal and external stakeholder management and actively communicating project status, changes and risks
• Co-ordinate the work and manage the resources across the project with the assistance of the Scrum Manager
• Attend face to face and online client meetings as and when required
• Ensure internal project governance including meetings, documentation and reporting are adhered to
• Risk management, including identifying, quantifying and agreeing mitigations for risks to delivery

Must Have:  

• Experience delivering complex technical projects into central UK government and/or the Health Sector 
• Experience delivering digital projects in highly regulated environments
• Have experience working with offshore teams
• Experience in applying agile methodology to digital projects 
• Strong skills in problem-solving, managing change, and continuous improvement. 
• Excellent communication skills 

Should Have 

• Relevant certificates in project management and agile methodologies will be an added advantage. 

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.

OTHER INFORMATION

• Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks. 
• Depending on the nature of the role a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check may also be required.

NEC Software Solutions is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have specific accessibility needs during the recruitment or interview process, please feel free to share these with us. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accommodating experience for all candidates.

Who We Are:

We’re NEC Software Solutions (part of global tech giant NEC Corporation). While you read this ad, our software is helping to dispatch ambulances, support families, keep trains on the move, locate missing people and even test the hearing of newborn babies.

Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.

We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.

We’d love your help. And we’ll support you all the way.