Digital Delivery Manager

Job summary

Using the latest agile tools and methods, you'll focus on translating complex user needs to tangible digital deliverables. Planning, defining and delivering large-scale digital projects, you'll get the best from our multidisciplinary, collaborative teams. We'll look to you to champion agile working and create a culture of continuous improvement, both within digital and beyond.

This is a role that's as much about people as process. As well as having experience of delivering digital projects using agile methodologies or the Government Digital Service (GDS) framework, you'll be adept at leading and motivating project teams. You'll also know how to engage stakeholders and manage their expectations. Last but not least, you'll be analytical, well organised and capable of thinking both strategically and tactically.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will manage one or more agile projects, to deliver a specific product or transformation via a multi-disciplinary, highly skilled digital team. Your responsibilities include:-

• Translating complex user needs into tangible digital deliverables, breaking down barriers for the development team, and planning at both a strategic and tactical level, overseeing the delivery of all tasks
• Defining project needs and shape these into a planned, iterative project plan to enable resource to be appropriately allocated
• Playing a key role in project decision making and advising of any risks associated
• Motivating the development team to progress work and deliver to a high standard
• Act as the conduit between the Digital team, stakeholders and other NHSBT Project Managers to align dates and identify dependencies.

You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours and overnight stays when required, with prior notice

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.

By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.

You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.