dmg events - Senior Delivery Manager

• Enterprise PMO and portfolio governance • Design, establish and continuously mature an enterprise PMO operating model, including demand intake, • prioritisation, business cases, stage gates, portfolio planning, assurance, reporting and benefits tracking. • Introduce proportionate enterprise delivery standards, governance, templates and controls that work across • agile, predictive and hybrid delivery environments. • Create a reliable enterprise portfolio view covering outcomes, milestones, investment, capacity, dependencies, • risks, issues and decisions. • Establish effective governance cadences and decision forums, ensuring actions, ownership and escalation • routes are clear and timely. • Partner with Finance, Product, Technology and business leaders on investment planning, resource • forecasting, portfolio scenarios and value realisation. • Delivery leadership • Lead complex, business-critical programmes and cross-functional initiatives from discovery through • implementation, adoption and benefits realisation. • Own integrated delivery plans and proactively manage scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, issues, • assumptions, decisions and cross-team dependencies. • Remove organisational and technology impediments, resolving ambiguity and creating the conditions for teams • to deliver efficiently and consistently. • Hold teams and partners accountable for commitments while creating a safe, collaborative environment for • early escalation and problem solving. • Manage third-party suppliers and consultants where required, ensuring delivery, commercial and quality • expectations are met. • Agile, lean and product coaching • Coach Product Owners on product vision, outcome-based roadmaps, value prioritisation, backlog health, user • stories, acceptance criteria and effective stakeholder engagement. • Coach delivery teams and leaders in Scrum, Kanban, Lean and scaled enterprise practices, adapting the • approach pragmatically to the nature and risk of the work. • Facilitate high-value workshops, planning sessions, reviews and retrospectives that create alignment, resolve • decisions and maintain momentum. • Build delivery capability through mentoring, communities of practice, playbooks, maturity assessments and • targeted learning interventions. • Promote continuous improvement using flow, predictability, quality, customer and value metrics rather than • activity measures alone. • Performance, communication and organisational leadership • Produce concise, decision-oriented portfolio reporting for senior stakeholders, with clear narrative on progress, • forecast, value, risk and required action. • Maintain exceptional organisation across multiple priorities, balancing strategic planning with hands-on • intervention where delivery needs support. • Use data to identify systemic delivery constraints and lead improvements in ways of working, governance, • capability and organisational design. • Role-model calm, inclusive and accountable leadership, especially when priorities are changing or delivery is • under pressure. • Evidence-led approach to portfolio and delivery reporting, including the use of flow, predictability, quality, risk • and outcome measures. • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex information for technical and • non-technical audiences. • Experience of delivery tooling such as Jira and Confluence, together with portfolio reporting and collaboration • A degree or equivalent professional experience. Relevant qualifications such as MSP, PgMP, PMP, PRINCE2, • SAFe, Scrum or ICAgile are desirable, but practical application is more important than certification alone. • Experience in a multi-brand, international, events, media or similarly fast-paced organisation is advantageous.