Senior Delivery Manager

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Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

"Join the team delivering innovative data solutions creating real value for Sky. As a Senior Delivery Manager within Sky Data you will have direct responsibility for the delivery of challenging projects from inception through to the successful transition deployment to business and operations" Delivery Lead

What you’ll do:

• Be accountable for end-to-end planning across multiple projects. Lead and agree scope, schedule, budget and delivery approach
• Be responsible for creating robust delivery plans from project inception by working with business stakeholders and Delivery Leads, including managing changes through project lifecycle.
• Work with Delivery Managers, Resource Managers and Scrum Masters to ensure required resources are secured within necessary timeframe and according to delivery plans.
• Produce clear status reports on time, to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.
• Manage milestones, budgets, risks, issues and dependencies across projects, clearly articulating the wider impact of a risk or issue as they arise.
• Take an active role in the team, providing support & feedback to delivery managers and colleagues outside the immediate delivery team
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years proven record of managing large scale technology focussed projects preferably including cloud hosted data.
• Delivery experience in multiple methodologies. (Scrum, Less, SAFE, Waterfall)
• Excellent organisation skills, ensuring transparency of plans and deliverables.
• Experience of working in different delivery models, agile / waterfall, in dynamic challenging environment where there are constant changing demands and priorities.
• Experience of complex integration projects on a large-scale in agile environments.
• GDPR, data protection, data management knowledge and experience is preferable.
  
  

Team Overview:

Group Data Hub

Want to unlock the power of data? Our Group Data Hub works with millions of data transformations every day to deliver value, improve customer experience and enable new product launches. From architecture to analytics and engineering to science: it’s how we bring customers more of what they love.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
• A generous pension package
• Private healthcare
• Discounted mobile and broadband
  
  

How you’ll work:

We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You’ll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Livingston Watermark House:

Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston North train station and the town centre. Plus there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working!

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.