Project Manager, Delivery

At Kin + Carta, we've got opportunities to offer you — for growth, for leadership, for big, world-changing impact and for, dare we say it, fun. We are a global workforce that is committed to building a world that works better for everyone. And that starts with our Kin. That's why we're proud of: - The life we create within our virtual walls, every day - Our B Corp certification - Our ranking in Consulting Magazine's 2022 "Best Large Firms to Work For" - The work we've done with some of the world's most innovative companies **The role**: Kin + Carta are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial and dedicated Project Manager to join our Delivery Practice. This role comprises a mix of project management and client management as well as helping to grow our business through the Delivery craft. Our PM's work with our expert in-house teams of developers, analysts, designers and testing engineers to deliver innovative, high-quality software and operational change. As a Project Manager at Kin + Carta, you will be responsible first and foremost for independently taking ownership of your project's delivery plan and consistently visualizing and reporting information for the team and client to ensure transparency. You'll own the team's processes, ensuring appropriate delivery approaches are pragmatically adopted and maintained whilst coaching and mentoring team members and clients to enhance Agility. Driving quality and continuous improvement will be central to everything you do, and you'll be skilled at using various tools and techniques to identify where improvements can be made. You will be adept in utilizing data and metrics to track and forecast delivery, use it to manage expectations and highlight risks and areas of inefficiency. You'll be joining a psychologically safe culture and will be committed and passionate about building on that and getting the best from your team. **Agile Practices and Processes** - Setting up and maintaining an efficient, lean workflow suitable for a software development cross-functional team in a scaled corporate environment, at a team or Program with multiple teams. - Own the team's processes, ensuring Agile approaches are pragmatically adopted and maintained. - Defining and running a regular cadence of events to provide visibility, gather feedback, drive progression and continuously improve e.g. stand-ups, regular refinements, retros etc. - Coach your team and/or client to help them understand the value of Agile ways of working - Build a positive, psychologically safe culture to ensure you get the most from the team, identifying problems and facilitating their remedies, and motivating the team to perform well, learn and grow. **Project Deliverables, Planning and Management** - Supporting in the creation of Statements of Work and casting plans inline with the agreed delivery approach and ensuring the early mitigation of risk in all client engagements. - Gathering and articulating to team members and stakeholders what the vision, strategy and objectives are for your project. - Facilitate well-written user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring that the team is holding its stakeholders and Product specialists accountable to fully meeting Definition of Ready while creating a culture of collaboration. - Facilitating the prioritization and estimation of a product backlog. - Preparing and managing release plans, project plans or roadmaps based on project deliverables. - Use experience of multiple parts of the discovery, alpha, beta, live, product life cycle, to recognise appropriate deliverables and when it is right to move forward. - Motivate and lead the team and stakeholders to deliver iterative slices of value all the way to done (ideally Production) with a focus on releasing deployed value early and often. - Work with Growth, Delivery and Casting to ensure the right skills for your teams are available at the right time. - Managing casting changes and issues such as holidays and other absences as they arise. **Budget Tracking and Management** - Tracking budgets and ensuring accurate revenue forecasting, working with client service teams on any mitigation of commercial risk. - Sharing budget status with clients on a regular basis and having productive conversations regarding project commercials. - Approval of Timesheets **Status Reporting and Governance** - Tracking delivery data for your project to improve flow/throughput, share progress updates, forecast and identify team challenges. - Visualize and radiate information for the team and client to ensure transparency, even in less than perfect or complex circumstances. - Identify with the team any Risks and Issues and their potential impact and work with the team and other stakeholders to mitigate. - Collaborating with internal stakeholders on issue resolution where necessary. - Communicate RAG status to internal and external stakeholders. - Set up regular status reporting in order to articulate progress, risk and issues