Delivery Manager (12 month FTC)

Job title: Delivery Manager (12 Months FTC)

Location: Bristol / London - Hybrid

Salary: £55,000 - £70,000

Team: Delivery

Reporting To: Lead Delivery Manager

This role is based in the UK and requires an existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza Overview

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.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, 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.

Where you'll work

We offer flexible working, with an expectation of 3 days a week in the office. This gives us the best of both: real time together to collaborate and build relationships, with the flexibility to work in the way that suits you best the rest of the week.

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 a dynamic and experienced Delivery Manager to lead and ensure the timely and successful delivery of our product and technology roadmaps. The ideal candidate will excel at managing capacity plans, boosting organisational effectiveness, and maintaining clear and transparent reporting. You will partner closely with our Client Delivery team to align deliverables with client expectations and enable our teams to focus on their core strengths.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive Roadmap Delivery Success:
• Oversee the execution of Product & Tech roadmaps to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Manage and optimise capacity plans to meet Client deadlines and business goals, ensuring teams are aware of the outcome they are trying to achieve and how to measure it.
• Track and report on initiatives milestones and deliverables.
• Identify, manage, and resolve dependencies across teams to ensure smooth progress and prevent delays.

• Ensure Transparent Reporting:
• Maintain clear and transparent reporting mechanisms for delivery status and risks.
• Develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Communicate initiative statuses and risks to stakeholders in a timely manner.

• Align with Client Expectations:
• Collaborate with the Client Delivery team to ensure deliverables meet client capabilities, support needs, and timelines.
• Ensure that client feedback is integrated into the delivery process.

• Clarity on Teams’ Effort Distribution:
• Provide clear and detailed insights into team contributions to overall business goals.
• Ensure that team efforts are aligned with strategic priorities.
• Facilitate data-driven decisions by ensuring delivery information reaches the right stakeholders, and maintain a strong effort-to-value ratio in your area.

• Boost Organisational Effectiveness:
• Establish and refine ways of working to foster a scalable and adaptable Product & Tech organisation.
• Implement Agile & Lean processes and tools that enhance efficiency and productivity.
• Act as a change driver and promote a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

• Enable Product and Tech to Focus on their Core Strengths:
• Eliminate barriers hindering Product teams from dedicating time to innovation and strategic planning.
• Allow Engineering teams to concentrate on technical excellence and execution.

About You

Ideally you'll have/be:

• Able to manage the end-to-end delivery of digital/technology products using Agile methodologies across cross-functional product teams.
• Strong understanding of product development process and software development life cycle. 
• Comfortable switching between team-level detail and executive-level overviews.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong coaching abilities to empower teams and colleagues to reach their full potential.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities.
• 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 Policy - With no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Personal Learning Budget - Upskill, learn and grow!
• Home Office Budget
• And more!

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 in Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.

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