Description:
We’re looking for a Head of Product Delivery to join our growing team.
The role of Head of Product Delivery entails the management of multi disciplinary technical teams who design, build, test, deploy and support TransUnion product within a specific domain. Led by delivery managers who create, maintain and manage deliveries to agreed plans.
Day To Day You’ll Be
- Work closely with product management and product owners, to understand product roadmaps and requirements to deliver against functional commitments and non-functional needs.
- Work closely with product stakeholders, developing effective working relationships and continuous product development and release processes.
- Plan the product development priorities and put in place effective monitoring and controls to ensure the timely identification, evaluation and mitigation of risks, issues and dependencies.
- Manage product development within the software development and release lifecycle exploiting Agile development methods
- Ensure resource availability across product teams, and identify areas of risk and resource exposure.
- Manage teams and direct report to a high standard, setting expectations of high performance, high quality, and predictable delivery in line with agreed service levels and commitments.
- Create and manage a skills matrix to ensure teams are prepared and effective at building, testing and supporting Products in alignment with agreed product and technology roadmaps.
- Establish and align skills of team members to Communities of Practice to ensure adherence to standards and best practice within the wider Product Delivery function. Leverage skills improvement and support engineers personal development.
- Coordinate prioritisation and timely resolution of department level technical risks and issues, as well product risk.
- Coordinate weekly updates and monthly reports on the status of product development and releases against agree plans and milestones.
- Perform assessment, development and people-management of direct reporting staff - both Engineering Managers and Delivery Managers.
- Design product team structure, aligning cross team resource to adequately resource Project plans for development commitments.
- Accountable for team recruitment to maintain resource levels and skills requirements.
- Provide support and advice on product development method and best practices.
- Management and tracking of cost centre budget, and creation or capex forecasts linked to roadmap.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Ability to define product development tasks and resolve resource and infrastructure inter-dependencies across multiple product teams.
- Ability to manage complex, cross-functional, concurrent product development teams.
- Ability to communicate at all levels including senior management, via a variety of mechanisms, to external third party suppliers, partners and customers.
- Ability to define a firm foundation for continuous product development.
- Experience of managing third-party suppliers and remote product development teams.
- Management skills to co-ordinate product team structure, build and maintain morale, and create a solid work ethic across both intra and inter team.
- Passion for quality excellence, methodical, thorough and diligent.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Completer / finisher.
- Risk Identifier and Manager.