Technical Delivery Manager, Subsea

The purpose of this Technical Delivery role is to lead on the implementation of BT subsea initiatives, be they infrastructure rollout, planned or reactive maintenance, optimisation, or best practice policy and procedures internally and with industry. Reporting to the Senior Manager for BT Subsea, the Technical Delivery Specialist role will be working with both BT Group teams and external organisations across the subsea arena to deliver multiple parallel solutions, that by their nature are a challenge, whether that be that physically, technically, financially or politically.

This role will ensure we deliver Service and/or infrastructure against the relevant SLA and business needs. This is achieved by:  

• Own and deliver Technical Projects from requirements gathering to live implementation.  
• Ensure delivery scope is achievable and understood.
• Produce robust and actionable delivery plans.
• Design and drive improved working processes.
• Effectively manage and control changes to the delivery.
• Ensure all impacted teams understand, engage with and commit to delivery plans, both internally and externally.
• Identify, manage and drive prerequisites or dependencies that may be external to the team but upon which we rely.  
• Track and manage delivery finances.  
• Timely identification of deliveries at risk and corrective action to resolve.
• Communication with senior managers and stakeholders.
• Act as buddy on activities undertaken by more junior or less experienced members of the team.
• Ensuring assets are registered in a timely manner
• Ensuring Legal and Regulatory compliance is maintained and that BT safe working practices are always applied.  
• Hold regular commercial review meetings with suppliers and internal BT stakeholders to facilitate progress, supplier performance and improvement opportunities.
• Produce regular reports @ progress and performance of suppliers against agreed delivery and financial targets.
• Contribute to supplier selection.
• Manage supplier engagement for your deliveries.
• Support engagement with suppliers on solution requirements.
• Manage supply contracts.
• Complete or assist on Investment Business Cases
• Prioritise H&S in designing and delivering project plans. 

Mandatory 

• Expertise in medium to large scale technical delivery. 
• Evidence of complex decision making and problem solving.
• Understanding of complex time/cost/quality trade-offs.
• Robust communication style and stakeholder mgmt.  
• Understanding of the types of questions seniors will ask.
• Understanding of what strong root cause analysis is.
• Track-record of leading matrixed teams.  
• Experience of working within diverse environments.
• Track record of embedding positive team cultures.
• Active Issue and Risk Management.
• Experience of managing budgets and financial reporting. 

 Preferred 

• Subsea experience
• Engineering background
• ITIL
• AGILE
• PRINCE
• APM 

• Kindness and tolerance for different ways of working.
• Strong communications skills with the ability to forge relationships across multiple disciplines and organisations.  
• Supporting senior managers and directors in Networks and the CFUs on change and adoption of best practice.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to ensure the proposed solution is affordable and delivers the required outcomes.
• Delivering business benefit in a timely way by focusing on must do capability and delivering effective e2e solutions.
• Issue and Risk Management.
• Firm change control regarding time, cost & quality.  
• Innovating to exceed Time, Cost, Quality measures.
• Sharing new learning and best practice.
• Experienced in technical delivery of large-scale complex projects across multiple methodologies.
• Inspirational leadership skills to motivate the team to deliver excellent results and maintain #1Networks.
• Experience in solving complex problems that arise from the interaction of multiple components and teams.
• Ability to influence and resolve conflicts associated with varying priorities and agendas across involved parties.
• Strong commercial awareness regarding decision impacts.
• Analytical thinking.