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About the Role

Red Badger is seeking a Principal Delivery Consultant to ensure the successful delivery of programmes of work. This role involves acting as a discipline expert, setting benchmarks for quality and best practice, and fostering positive client relationships. The Principal Delivery Consultant will take responsibility for delivery quality across client engagements with multiple cross-functional teams, empowering Delivery Leads to drive quality and product delivery autonomously. The role requires leadership and governance across multi-team programs, as well as high-value consulting services to shape digital delivery strategy or run proof-of-concept workstreams.

Responsibilities

Facilitating discovery activities with a cross-functional product team (Design / Product / Tech / UX)
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
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
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
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
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

Requirements

Deep experience in discovery stage for complex software products
Excellent client and stakeholder management skills
Strong track record of large-scale delivery experience
Expert practitioner of agile and lean practices drawing on inspiration from established frameworks and able to adapt based on environment and circumstances
Focused on data-driven delivery, use data to drive your decisions and help others to do the same
Able to understand and forecast key deliverables and communicate a project’s status clearly with senior stakeholders
Able to help teams mitigate risks to delivery
Able to tailor your message to suit your audience’s needs using your exceptional communication, negotiation and facilitation skills
Comfortable operating in ambiguity, with a proven track record of delivering quality digital products in complex environments, through all phases of a product’s lifecycle
Outcome and value-driven, can clearly articulate the user and business value of the work your teams have delivered
Comfortable managing, coaching and mentoring other Delivery Leads, helping them to elevate themselves and contribute to larger programme goals in a multi-team engagement
Agile and lean advocate that can coach and educate without being dogmatic
Able to share knowledge and understanding to ensure we’re delivering the right thing, the right way
Commercially savvy, able to draft contracts for new engagements, and help contribute to a sustainable account strategy
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
Proactively identify ways to improve the delivery discipline’s outward-facing reputation and find avenues to promote your previous organisation’s brand externally
Clear opinions on the effectiveness of different frameworks and methodologies and can use real case studies to bring your opinions to life

Skills

Agile methodologies
Lean methodologies
Delivery strategy
Stakeholder management
Client management
Product delivery
Data-driven delivery
Forecasting
Risk mitigation
Communication
Negotiation
Facilitation
Coaching
Mentoring
Commercial acumen
Sales support
Thought leadership

Location

London

Work Type

2 days / week in person working
Outside IR35

Experience Level

Principal
Large-scale delivery experience

Salary/Compensations

£day rate

About the Company

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.
Red Badger Values: People people, Find a way, Always learning, Open & Fair, Collaborative.

Equal Opportunity

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.