Principal Delivery Lead
We are looking for a Principal Delivery Consultant with a strong track record of large-scale delivery experience to ensure successful delivery of programmes of work at Red Badger.
As a Principal, you are a discipline expert. You set the benchmark for quality and best practice. You are passionate about what you do and motivate those around you. You are a strong consultant who can foster positive and trusted relationships with our clients.
Red Badger is well known for Delivery and solving the most complex technical and product problems. We deliver successfully using lean and agile techniques, focusing on user value and building quality into everything we do. As a Principal Delivery Consultant you will take responsibility for the quality of delivery across a client engagement with multiple cross-functional teams, maintaining alignment with Red Badger ways of working, while empowering the Delivery Leads on each team you support to drive quality and product delivery with autonomy.
You're equally comfortable providing leadership and governance across a multi-team programme as you are providing high-value consulting services to shape a client’s digital delivery strategy or run a proof-of-concept workstream for executive stakeholders.
You will be reporting into the Business Unit (Cell) Delivery Director, working closely with a cross-functional leadership team consisting of Cell MD, Delivery Director, Technology Director and Product Director and other Principal roles.
The Principal Delivery Consultant will focus on:
Successful delivery of client outcomes across multiple-team programmes
Consulting the client to define and execute a strong delivery strategy
Quality of delivery using Lean and Agile methodologies
Empowering, coaching and supporting delivery leads
Delivery Discipline Leadership
Key Responsibilities
Discipline expertise
Accountable for programme level planning and alignment, data based forecasting, reporting, and identifying and resolving organisational level risks, impediment or blockers
Accountable for delivery quality across the client engagement ensuring consistency of approach and a clear governance framework
Enabling continuous improvement and high quality outcomes through the promotion of lead agile methodologies
Driving successful project delivery, collaborating within a team of Delivery Leads
Managing project/programme finances and working with cell leadership to drive account profitability
Championing the Delivery discipline on complex digital transformation projects
Collaborative leadership
Commercial awareness and input to account planning with Cell leadership
Influence and align client organisation and badger teams to lean and agile practices
Responsible for account level delivery leadership and governance
Collaborate with the Principal Product and Technology roles to give delivery teams space and autonomy to thrive
Support shaping new sales opportunities and contracts
Client influencer
Setting and implementing a delivery strategy and framework across multiple teams for clients to solve large scale and complex problems
Aligning stakeholders across the client organisation to the delivery strategy by contextualising your decisions through influence and diplomacy
Communicate with confidence to a broad range of stakeholders and client teams
Become a trusted advisor to our clients by collaborating with them to deliver business and user value
Build Red Badger capability
Caring for peoples’ careers and wellbeing, with the potential for line management responsibilities
Providing discipline coaching and mentoring, supporting and inspiring all the Delivery Leads within the client engagement
Contribute to Red Badger’s place in the industry
Provide Delivery discipline thought leadership and contribute to the growth of Red Badger brand in the industry
Champion Red Badger’s ways of working: cross-functional teams, continuously delivering value, building quality
Be an ambassador for Red Badger, and an advocate for ‘doing the right thing’, ‘doing the thing right’ by supporting and enabling others to do so
Your experience
It’d be great if you have
You are an expert practitioner of agile and lean practices drawing on inspiration from established frameworks and able to adapt based on environment and circumstances.
You are focused on data-driven delivery, use data to drive your decisions and help others to do the same.
You can understand and forecast key deliverables and communicate a project’s status clearly with senior stakeholders. When you see risks to delivery, you help teams mitigate them.
You are able to tailor your message to suit your audience’s needs using your exceptional communication, negotiation and facilitation skills.
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, you have a proven track record of delivering quality digital products in complex environments, through all phases of a product’s lifecycle.
Outcome and value-driven, you can clearly articulate the user and business value of the work your teams have delivered.
You are comfortable managing, coaching and mentoring other Delivery Leads, helping them to elevate themselves and contribute to larger programme goals in a multi-team engagement.
You’re an agile and lean advocate that can coach and educate without being dogmatic. You are able to share knowledge and understanding to ensure we’re delivering the right thing, the right way.
You are commercially savvy, are able to draft contracts for new engagements, and help contribute to a sustainable account strategy.
It’d be amazing if you can also
Have started or introduced the delivery delivery community of practice or guild in a previous organisation
Experience hiring and staffing a new delivery team
Have public speaking or producing content experience on lean and agile delivery in the industry
Have proactively identify ways to improve the delivery discipline’s outward-facing reputation and find avenues to promote your previous organisation’s brand externally
You have clear opinions on the effectiveness of different frameworks and methodologies and can use real case studies to bring your opinions to life
What we offer
We make sure our team is well looked after with generous salaries and a great benefits package which includes:
Annual £2,000 training budget
Enhanced pension with employer contribution of up to 5% of your salary
Group Life Insurance
Income Replacement Benefit
Critical Illness Cover
Private Medical Insurance
Your choice of hardware and mobile phone
£2,000 home-office set up budget and contribution to home broadband
Matched (pre-tax) charity GAYE donations
Cycle to work
Enhanced parental leave.
Our core working hours are 10am-3pm to allow you flexibility to plan your work around your personal commitments.
Remote working:
We are yet to define what the future of work looks like for Red Badger. We’re continuing to work as per government guidelines. Our central London office is open for those who wish to travel in
Red Badger Values:
People people
We respect and care for each other, giving us the space to feel safe and be our true selves
Find a way
We’re comfortable with uncertainty and accountability, whilst achieving great outcomes through shared goals
Always learning
We’re curious. It’s how we learn and grow as individuals, continuously testing and improving what we do, and how we do it
Open & Fair
We build trust by telling things as they are, being open, and seeking to achieve fair and equitable outcomes.
Collaborative
We are united by our desire to get to the best ideas. We are generous with our knowledge, actively listen to each other, and are open minded.
Diversity & Inclusion:
Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour. We are fully focused on equality, and it is our fundamental belief that the fascinating characteristics that make us all different enable us to continue to do amazing work for our clients.