Delivery Manager

Location: Bristol or London, UK (hybrid, three days a week in the office)

Level: Delivery Manager C2

Team: Delivery

Salary: £55,000 – £70,000 + discretionary bonus

Contract: 12 month fixed-term

Reporting To: Lead Delivery Manager

Please note: This role requires an existing right to work in the UK. We can’t offer visa sponsorship, but we review sponsorship role by role, so keep an eye on our careers site for future opportunities.

About Kaluza

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.

What you'll do

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.

What you'll bring

Ideally, you'll have:

• 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.

Our Values

Five values guide how we work at Kaluza:

• Play to win: Collective pride in decarbonising energy at scale.

• Solve the real problem: Cutting through complexity to focus on real-world outcomes.

• Build trust every day: Consistency, transparency and doing what we say.

• Own the outcome: Full accountability, wins and setbacks, without ego.

• Go further together: Collaboration, respect and different perspectives.

Our Perks

• Time off and family: 26 days’ holiday, plus 26 weeks’ full pay for new parents with no qualifying service period

• Health and security: Private medical insurance with virtual GP, life assurance, pension scheme, free mortgage advice and eye tests

• Pay and flexibility: Discretionary bonus, a Flex Fund of 5% [of salary] to spend on the benefits you want most, retail discounts through Perks at Work

• Growth and setup: Personal learning budget, home office budget

• Climate: Furthr, our climate action app

Come as you are

We want to meet people from all walks of life. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be, and we recognise talent on merit and potential. If you’re excited about the role but don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you.

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