Job title: Lead Delivery Manager (12 Months FTC)
Location: Bristol or London
Salary: £78,400 - £98,000
Closing date for applications: Thursday 23rd April
Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. Leveraging Data, AI, and real-time decision-making we turn energy complexity into growth opportunities for our partners.
By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable and affordable.
With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.
What will I be doing?
You’ll be working within our delivery management function. The delivery management organisation’s mission is to:
Shepherd: Guide Product and Tech delivery management practices within the teams you are supporting. Simplify: internal reporting & risks to drive action. Standardise: process and practice to drive consistency across Product and Tech. Serve: alongside our Product and Tech partners to drive development forward in the organisation at pace. Be Neutral: provide objective, internally facing data and insights on how things are going to drive action by appropriate owners.
We are seeking an accomplished Lead Delivery Manager to own and drive the timely and successful execution of our product and technology roadmaps for our clients. In this pivotal role, you will provide leadership and direction, partnering with leadership functions in Product, Engineering, UX and Client Delivery to support the delivery of strategic goals and to provide confidence around what we’re able to deliver further ahead.
Responsibilities:
Lead Product & Tech Delivery
- Lead delivery of the Product & Tech roadmap within your area
- Guide delivery management across Product and Engineering teams to ensure plans are realistic and outcomes are delivered
Align with Client Needs
- Work with Client Delivery leadership to ensure deliverables align with client capabilities, timelines, and support needs
- Incorporate client feedback into delivery planning
Ensure Effective Delivery Management
- Maintain strong delivery practices across teams, including capacity planning, milestone tracking, and dependency management
- Provide clear reporting on progress, risks, and delivery outcomes
Improve Ways of Working
- Implement and refine delivery processes that support a scalable Product & Tech organisation
- Promote efficient ways of working using Agile and Lean principles
Enable Teams to Deliver
- Remove barriers that prevent Product and Engineering teams from focusing on innovation, technical excellence, and delivery
- Ensure team effort is aligned with strategic priorities and value delivery
Lead and Develop Delivery Managers
- Manage and mentor Delivery Managers in your area
- Provide clear direction, support teams through complexity, and build delivery capability
Provide Clear Insight and Escalation
- Ensure transparent reporting for stakeholders and clients
- Proactively escalate risks and enable informed decision-making
Is this the job for me?
You should be an experienced Delivery Manager with a successful track record:
- Able to lead the end-to-end delivery of digital/technology products using agile methodologies across cross-functional product teams.
- Excellent understanding of product development process and software development life cycle, with an openness to follow current practices within Kaluza and refine where needed.
- Experienced in leading Delivery Management, line-managing and developing people.
- Able to build strong relationships and be a trusted partner across Product & Engineering leadership.
- Able to influence senior leadership across the organisation.
- Strong coaching abilities to empower teams and colleagues to reach their full potential.
- Comfortable switching between team-level detail and executive-level overviews.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
- Have a good, working knowledge of Jira, Craft or other roadmapping tools, with a curiosity towards using JQL and existing tools to generate useful dashboards and reports to drive development forward at pace.
- Able to draw on experience to apply the right approach in the right context.
- Comfortable with uncertainty and adept at bringing people along on a change journey.
- Worked in scaling a high-growth SaaS business.
- Apply customer centricity in the way that you work.
Kaluza Values
Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:
Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together
From us you’ll get
- Pension Scheme
- Discretionary Bonus Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
- Life Assurance
- Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
- Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
- Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
- 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
- 26 days holiday
- Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
- Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
- Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
- And more…
Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.
We want the best people
We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.
We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.
Find out more about working at Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.
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