Delivery Manager
We are looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to be a force multiplier for our product teams. You won’t just enable events; you will orchestrate the team’s execution plan, guard its health, and partner in our journey to a world‑class, product‑led organization.
Your Responsibilities
- Proactively identify, resolve, and elevate impediments—from daily blockers to systemic issues spanning multiple teams.
- Manage dependencies and alignment across teams to prevent delays and ensure clear communication.
- Coach teams on realistic forecasting and transparent progress communication.
- Streamline the path to production, improving deployment frequency and ensuring smooth releases.
- Cultivate a culture of trust, collaboration, and psychological safety where problems can be raised and solved without fear of blame.
- Coach teams on self‑organisation, effective collaboration, and conflict resolution, fostering mature Agile ways of working.
- Champion continuous improvement using metrics, retrospectives, and action items.
- Act as a key coach and partner to Technical Service Owners, bridging strategic discovery and tactical delivery.
- Influence and align stakeholders, providing transparency into the team’s progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Contribute to and help build our Delivery Management community of practice, sharing knowledge and standardising best practices across Elanco.
Qualifications
- Extensive Experience: Proven success in a delivery‑focused role (e.g., Delivery Manager, Project Manager, Agile Coach) within a large, cross‑functional organization.
- Transformation Champion: Experience navigating and supporting large‑scale organizational change, such as an agile or product model transformation.
- Deep Expertise: A deep, practical understanding of Agile and Lean principles, with the ability to adapt frameworks like Scrum and Kanban to fit the team’s context.
- A Strategic Mindset: The ability to see beyond the team level to identify systemic bottlenecks and opportunities for broader organizational improvement.
- A Coaching Heart: A genuine passion for coaching individuals and teams, comfortable across all levels, and able to partner with leadership to foster growth.
- Exceptional Facilitation Skills: You are an expert facilitator who can guide teams through complex conversations, planning sessions, and conflict resolution with ease.
- Data‑Driven Approach: You use metrics as a tool to help teams understand their performance and drive meaningful improvements.
Experience: Experience and/or understanding of the products that Workplace delivers to customers. These include, but are not limited to: General Microsoft 365 applications such as SharePoint, Exchange Online, and OneDrive; MS collaboration tools such as Teams and Loop; MS Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Pages, Power Automate, Virtual Agent, Dynamics); SMTP and application email services; Workplace services including client and productivity data security applications and tools; Telephony services and contact centre applications.
Experience working in a regulated, multi‑agency, or international environment. Formal certifications (e.g., CSM, PSMII, SAFe, SPS, PRINCE2/PRINCE2 Agile) are valued but secondary to real‑world experience.
Location & Travel
Travel: 0‑10% Location: Hook, UK – Hybrid Work Environment
EEO Statement
Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. Elanco may use automated tools, including AI, to support parts of our recruitment process, such as reviewing applications against job‑related criteria and/or transferrable skills. These tools help ensure a consistent, structured evaluation, but they do not make hiring decisions. All decisions involve a human reviewer.
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