Value Stream Delivery Lead

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We have an exciting opportunity for two people to join us in our newly developed roles Value Stream Delivery Leads. These roles will specialise in the key areas of our business, focusing on Savings and Mortgages. Reporting directly to our Chief Operating officer and Chief Customer Officer.  

As our Value Stream Delivery Leads your role will be accountable for creation and delivery of the Value Stream Delivery roadmap, you will lead cross-functional delivery teams of between 25 and 50 change professionals ensuring that outcomes are delivered effectively and efficiently to time cost and quality.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Overall accountability for ensuring the successful execution of activities to deliver the Value Stream OKRs.
• Leading agile squads and collaborating Communities of Practice and Enterprise functions in an Enterprise 1^st matrix approach. 
• Develop the right strategies and tactics to deliver VS backlogs in an optimal and efficient manner orchestrating dependencies and resources.
• Balance the delivery of Customer Experience Enhancements, Product & Proposition Changes, Legal Regulatory & Mandatory Change, System Health & Technical Debt for platforms and applications.
• Champion a Customer Centric outcome-oriented delivery mindset and Culture across the Value Stream, CoP & Enterprise Functions.
• Ensure that resource utilisation is optimised at enterprise level to maximise Value delivery. 

Skills & Experience needed:

• A good understanding and appreciation of the financial services’ regulatory environment.
• Role model collaborator with experience of delivering through complex matrix organisation.
• Authentic stakeholder management skills.
• Capable of communicating complex technical problems, strategies and solutions to a non-technical audience.
• Comfortable overcoming barriers and resistance to delivery impediments and blockers.
• Ability to exercise appropriate judgment when analysing and filtering information for decision making.

Qualifications:

Agile Delivery and Scrum Master Certifications e.g. CSM (Certified ScrumMaster), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I, II, or III), SAFe Agilist (SA). 

Project management qualifications e.g. Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP). 

*We will be holding interviews week commencing 11^th November for those who are shortlisted for interview * 

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