Senior Delivery Manager

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for three Senior Delivery Managers responsible for delivering products, services and workstreams of varying sizes, maturity and at different stages of the lifecycle (from discoveries through to live). Salary between £52,000 to £65,600 (dependent on competency and location) plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford.

DBT work in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformation which supports export and investment strategies. They use digital tools to allow UK businesses to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising from delivering trade agreements, helping to facilitate UK exports as well as working on digital projects to support inward UK investment from abroad.

Delivery Managers in DBT work within a community of practice, supporting each other to improve agile practices across the department and deliver in line with the department's priorities of trade, investment, export promotion and support the UK's agenda for a Global Britain.

If you would like to find out more about the roles, the Delivery team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Thursday 23rd May at 12:30pm. Please click HERE to book your spot.

About the roles
There are three roles available, one in the Licencing for International Trade and Enterprise 'LITE' programme, which has been established to deliver a new licensing platform for exporting and importing strategically controlled goods.
The other two roles will support the enabling teams in the Technology Services Portfolio.
One will work with the Technology Services team to deliver value through working with partners across government to deliver new systems that will transform government technology, whilst delivering customised solutions for DBT. The Technology Services team manage and assure the baseline platforms, applications and services that support DBT business objectives and outcomes by putting users and quality of service at the heart of what they do.

The other will manage the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team and deliver several priority technology and infrastructure projects and programmes across DDaT. The SRE team provides critical operational support to all DDaT services and teams. They also provide tooling for the day to day working of all development teams, make sure that all the development work adheres to policy standards, provide ongoing support for hosting, and CD/CI pipeline.

Main responsibilities

You will be:

• Helping to build the right environment for the team to deliver, collaborate, communicate, and focus on the most important outcomes
• Improving processes and removing obstacles within the team and outside of it, iterating the existing approaches and facilitating new ways of doing things
• Ensuring the team has the right set of skills and providing direction on how that should change as the product is developed
• Managing dependencies and risks across DBT and with other government departments to remove blockers or obstacles to delivery
• Using your understanding of agile practices to be able to adapt them to suit the team you are working with and guide continual improvement
• Line managing, mentoring and coaching other members of the professional community, your team, and possibly colleagues outside of DDaT

Skills and experience

It is essential that you have:

• Experience of Agile and Lean practices in a cross functional team, with an emphasis on user-centred design
• Experience of delivering a full product lifecycle
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• The ability to support with governance/continuous improvement
• The ability to balance business needs against cost/time to build

If you are applying for either of the technical delivery roles, it is also essential that you have

• Experience leading technical projects and/or programmes

It is desirable that you have:

• Experience of financial management
• Experience of commercial management

 How to apply

As we are recruiting into multiple teams in this vacancy, please indicate which role/s you would like to be considered for - you can select multiple.
As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role. Inspire People will assess your application against the essential criteria listed above to compile a longlist of applications, which will then be sifted by DBT. Successful candidates at this stage may be invited straight to interview or asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video screening interview (alternately provide written answers to questions). These applications will then be sifted by DBT hiring managers. If you are successful, you will be invited to interview.
Sift will be from week commencing 3rd June 2024
Interviews will be from week commencing 10th June 2024

Please note these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.

How we interview

At the interview stage for these roles, you will be asked to demonstrate relevant Technical Skills and Behaviours from the Success Profiles framework. These are role specific and in line with the DDaT Capability Framework. If you are invited to interview, you will receive the questions about Technical Skills in advance.

Technical Skills

• Agile and Lean practices
• Communicating between the technical and non-technical
• Life cycle perspective
• Maintaining delivery momentum
• Making a process work
• Planning
• Team dynamics and collaboration

Behaviours

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

You will also be asked to deliver a presentation/complete an exercise/undergo an assessment and will be informed on the topic following the sift/ on the day.

How DBT offer

Offers may be made in merit order based on location preferences. If you pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring you will be held on a 12-month reserve list in case a role becomes available. If you are judged a near miss at interview, you may be offered a post at the grade below the one you applied for.

We will be creating separate merit lists for the two types of Delivery roles, one for the LITE and one for both the Tech roles.

These roles require SC clearance. DBT's requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn.

Benefits

If you join DBT, you will get:

• learning and development tailored to your role
• a flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours
• a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
• annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days with service
• three paid volunteering days a year
• an employee benefits programme including cycle to work

More about DBT

These roles can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If you are based in London, you will receive London weighting. DBT employees work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DBT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.
You can find out more about office locations, how DBT calculate salaries, their diversity statement and reasonable adjustments, the Recruitment Principles, the Civil Service code and the complaints procedure on DBTs website.
Find out more about life at DBT, our benefits and meet the team by watching the video or reading the blog!

If you would like to apply for this role, please click 'Apply' or contact Alison Whitehead for more information.