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Delivery Manager - Leicester

Employer
Asda
Location
Leicester
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
14 May 2018

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Delivery Manager

An exciting opportunity to join the Technology team at the world's largest retailer, with a unique culture and a relentless focus on the customer. You'll join a team going through significant transformation from a traditional discipline based model to DevOps, looking to use Agile and product management delivery techniques wherever appropriate.

Your work will be focussed on the George Clothing part of the Asda business, which is currently undergoing one of the largest technology transformations Asda has ever conducted. In your role, you'll be accountable for the delivery of application development and testing activities on George IT projects.
You'll benefit from fantastic opportunities such as career progression, flexible working, behavioural and role specific technical training.

Responsibility/Accountability
  • Manage a team made up of partner resources to ensure that all agreed project deliverables are completed on-time and to a high standard.
  • Be involved in the early stages of projects, such as Requirements and Design phases, to provide expert input around the application development elements.
  • Attend estimation sessions to estimate the level of effort and duration of development activities for a particular project.
  • On-board development resources from strategic partners, ensuring all required governance is adhered to.
  • Understand and plan tasks required to deliver solutions, and identify how these tasks could be split across multiple resources to maximise the speed of delivery
  • Pro-actively adapt to changes in solution design, timescales, or budget, performing an impact analysis and providing feedback
  • Proactively review and improve the service that your team provides, identifying and resolving any potential gaps.
  • Make sure your team adheres to all appropriate processes and standards for all configuration change to George systems.
  • Build trusted relationships with your customers and your peers across Asda Technology.
  • Communicate our performance, both verbally and by producing high quality status reporting.
Knowledge and Skills
  • Experience of managing application development activities on IT projects
  • Knowledge of Agile and Devops ways of working
  • Knowledge of CI/CD
  • A track record of building successful relationships
  • Ability to communicating and influencing at multiple levels

Benefits
  • Excellent salary, company bonus and pension
  • FUN environment
  • A strong commitment to personal development and training
  • Free parking
  • Great culture
  • Staff discount
  • Life Insurance, medical care, cycle to work scheme
  • And tonnes more...
This position is open to Flexible Working / Part Time / Job share

If you have any questions, then please email clare.tempest@asda.co.uk


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