BI DELIVERY MANAGER

DESCRIPTION

BI Delivery Manager

The BI Delivery Manager will be involved in delivering, Co-ordinating and the planning of development projects for Dixons Business Intelligence. To be the day to day point of contact, co-ordinating and managing delivery of the portfolio group of projects within Business Intelligence and ensure that the portfolio planning is prioritised, clear and adhered to.

You will:

Resource and project planning ensuring milestones are met and a consistent stream of delivery is achieved. Reporting into Head of BI. Coordinating with Development, BA and support BI leads. Ensuring full buy-in of colleagues and project customers to the committed timescales. Maintain project plans and timelines; agree and communicate deliverables; escalate and manage issues and risks which affect delivery.

• Deliver portfolio of projects by defining, agreeing scope, requirement, constraints, priorities, success criteria, dependencies and managing them in line within agreed costs and timescales
• Establishing effective monitoring and control mechanisms such that any potential slippage, overspend or quality problem is quickly identified and the project is brought back on target.
• Manage change to ensure all new projects or changes the process and are understood, prioritised and approved prior to being implemented
• Ensuring that the project solutions meets the requirement and quality criteria is fully agreed to, and that the business continue to be committed to achieving required benefits 
• Identify and mitigate risks, both risks within the project and the consequential risks to the business
• Facilitate planning, release management, and delivery of projects as needed to help teams work together and use resources effectively

You will need:

• MS project; excellent communication skills (verbal+ written);
• Expert understanding of project management
• Advanced knowledge of portfolio management
• Advanced experience managing third party resources, including those with resources located in a different country
• Advanced agile development management skills
• Good communication skills, with the ability to explain complex IT concepts to non-technical colleagues
• Good coaching techniques
• Good vendor & contract management skills, holding vendor to account and ensuring maximum performance from them
• Good knowledge of other software development lifecycle and techniques
• Awareness of a range of development methodologies

Dixons Carphone is Europe’s number one electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company, with more than 40,000 colleagues across nine countries, including the UK and Ireland. Every day, we use our people’s expertise to reach out and help new customers. What’s more - we’re exploring extraordinary new markets, from wellness to security, so that in an ever more connected and constantly changing world, we can offer our customers the most comprehensive service.

It’s an exciting time to join us and find yourself a place in our growing success story, apply now.

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