Delivery Lead (Amsterdam)
AND Digital, Netherlands
Job Description
Delivery Lead (Amsterdam)
AND Introduction
At AND, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious leaders and organisations build the teams, products, processes and even operational structures they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow.
Clients rely on our experience, agility and craft skills across tech and business strategy, software development and product management to address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses.
We bring aboard thinkers, tinkerers, passionate software craftspeople and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we’re united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won’t transform a business or save the world: it’s the people that count.
About You
As a Delivery Lead, you will be responsible for the delivery of client initiatives being delivered by the Club, ensuring successful outcomes within the agreed budgets and timeframes. As a result, you will need to be able to:
- Build effective partnerships across client’s technology and business units who we are dependent on for the successful delivery
- Maintain transparency and provide timely and accurate visibility of status, progress against product backlogs, managing progress impediments
- Gather, synthesize and provide financial information, progress updates, resources, risks and issues and interdependencies across initiatives for clients
- Set-up and run Executive governance forums with clients
- Track and report performance of Feature teams against commitment, building a view of performance over a period of time to identify areas for improvement
- Build a view of capacity and performance of Feature teams (gathering empirical data) and maintaining rolling forward view of expected delivery of user stories
- Identify additional capacity needs and re-balance workload across teams.
- Track, report and maintain spend report by product area based on team resources committed to each product area
To do that, it’s essential you bring the following:
- 5-7 years of programme / project experience
- Agile and Lean methodologies - lead and coach delivery teams; act as an expert who advocates good practices, reflecting continuously and challenging teams to create and tailor new ways of working
- Planning skills: lead ongoing planning processes in complex environments; identify dependencies in coordinate delivery; forecast, estimate and manage uncertainty; plan beyond product delivery;
- Delivery: ensure the process works by optimising the delivery flow of teams; proactively identify and address risks, issues and dependencies and find innovative ways to unblock issues; challenge organisational processes and coach clients to inspect and adapt their processes; guide teams through the implementation of new processes
- Communication skills and stakeholder management: mediate people and med relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate conversations about complexity and associated risk in projects, people and timescales.
- Team management: work with our clients to identify challenges in the team dynamic and address them; pull out issues through agile health-checks with the team; engage and promote a learning and feedback culture
- Commercial and Financial management: negotiate, influence and take responsibility for budget management within constraints; monitor budgets against expenditure; write or input into business cases and communicate value propositions
- Organisational and consulting skills:lead on delivery strategy for our clients; identify and change organisational delivery models to support business goals
Its helpful if you have:
- Strong communication skills with management team and technical team members
- Fluent in business-level Dutch (speaking and writing)
- Able to continuously improve and shape governance approach to suit the client delivery Good knowledge of agile methodology and practices (Scrum, Kanban)
- A good grounding in traditional Project Management governance practices
- Ability to manage teams particularly in complex and challenging environments, e.g. multiple suppliers, multiple locations, changing priorities
- Ability to articulate and summarise findings clearly and succinctly to senior managers
Joining AND
From the work we deliver, to the way we serve and support our people, we work hard to ensure that there’s nowhere quite like AND. But joining a company is a two-way street: the fit has to work on both sides. So