We require a Delivery Manager to work with the Distributors, end user customers and the technical team to deliver projects successfully.
The candidate will provide project management and technical assistance to clients and coordinate with the rest of the team to ensure that the pilots are landed. Therefore, a commitment to customer excellence, understanding of business processes, collaborative problem solving and a good knowledge of IT processes and functions is important.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the successful delivery of customer POC projects
o Establish the requirements for customer POC projects and develop project plans with clear deliverables, roles, responsibilities and associated timelines
o Be the key technical interface between the Distributor/Customer and our internal technical team.
o Liaise with external customer and 3rd party teams on their progress towards deliverables and timelines
o Manage the internal teams to ensure delivery against our agreed deliverables and timelines
o Manage internal and external expectations around delivery through frequent communication and project reporting - Lead discussion with Distributors and Customers regarding
o Conversational design using client’s proprietary dashboard
o Back-end integrations to customer CRM
o Front-end integration to telephony systems
o Deployment architecture – requirements and considerations - Be the subject matter expert for the product suite
o Establish and maintain relationships with appropriate 3rd party vendors and suppliers
o Handle technical integration and deployment discussions with vendors and suppliers
o Update customer documentation on the product suite and product integration as and when interfaces are updated and changed - Prioritize between product and customer delivery
o Balance customer delivery with continuous product iteration
o Ensure that the product suite is evolving in line with business and customer requirements
o Triage customer feedback for internal teams to action
o Manage and prioritize the product backlog
o Participate in daily stand-ups and prioritize work for sprint planning
Skills - Communicating between the technical and non-technical
o Able to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them.
o Able to manage stakeholders’ expectations and be flexible, is capable of proactive and reactive communication.
o Facilitates difficult discussions within the team to ensure delivery. - Maintaining delivery momentum
o Building project plans and managing projects to successful delivery
o Managing internal and external resources to deliver on the project plan
o Engaging with Distributors and end user Customers to obtain information and address dependencies
o Able to actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team. - Understand of business processes
o Able to understand end user customer business processes and reduce to conversational design elements
o Able to design processes that are practical for voice based digital adoption
o Guides teams through the implementation of a new process. - Planning
o Understands the environment and is able to prioritise the most important or highest value tasks.
o Able to manage complex internal and external dependencies.
o Able to remove blockers or impediments that affect the plan and is able to develop a plan for difficult situations. . - Team dynamics and collaboration
o Able to empower delivery teams.
o Able to help create the right environment for a team to work in.
o Recognises and deals with issues.
Experience required:
- Contact center experience: Understanding of the business process and ability to document these in process flows
- Telephony IVR and systems such as Genesys, Amazon Connect, Asterisk, Avaya
- Ability to code in Python
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs
Contract Position
Desired Skills:
- Python
- Delivery management
- Project Management Agile
- Contact center
- Telephony
Desired Work Experience:
- More than 10 years IT Project Administration / Management