Senior Delivery Manager/Delivery Manager

Company Description

Tomorrow’s cars will be defined by software and here at ETAS we are at the forefront of this evolution to the software-defined vehicle. The solutions we are developing today will enable millions of cars to get closer to the dream of Autonomous Driving.

We are the experts in the industry and together we have decades of experience in software architecture, embedded development, agile methodologies, and test-driven development. Alongside our parent company Robert Bosch, we share the values of a better world for everyone and our common mission - Invented for Life.

Job Description

Please note this role is only open to SID internal Project Managers in EMEA only.

The Senior Delivery Manager (SDM) leads the Delivery Managers for the Release Train as a member of the Release Train leadership team, and is the primary escalation point for existing business within a Release Train. They ensure all project-related activities such as project planning and coordination with interfaces and are responsible for release management, supplier management activities. The SDM has primary responsibility for monitoring ART TNS and costs, and a shared responsibility for achieving ART profitability, project objectives and targets (time, cost, spec., quality, procurement, profit) and a sole responsibility w.r.t. leveraging scope and budget if a customer project target is at risk. The SDM professionally applies project management processes, methods and tools, and manages the interface between customers and the Release Train along with other Delivery Managers and other stakeholders.

The key tasks and responsibilities of the Senior Delivery Manager are as follows:

• Leads Delivery Managers assigned to the Release Train
• Escalation point for customer commercial topics for existing business: reporting progress, discussing new proposals, negotiating scope & committing achievable delivery dates, supporting contract negotiations, T&Cs discussions with Sales/Legal, aligning with ART
• Issues Quotes & prepares invoices
• Issuing Purchase Orders of project 
• Commercial interface for: Financial reporting of Release Train, projects, creating opportunities in C4C (Salesforce equivalent), maintaining forecasts in PPM
• Shared responsibility for achievement of the PM-KPI’s (cockpit chart completeness and consistency, OTD, EBIT)
• Project Budget Cost Tracking
• Milestone Planning for projects and releases
• Coordination of all teams contributing to the project (no dedicated team)
• Interface PPQA (e.g. Release, Hotfix, PreQIC, KIR)
• Project-related coordination of Audits / Certification
• Initiate a project by putting the endeavor in a Lean Business Case, set-up an Epic hypothesis statement and align with stakeholders to anchor the customer endeavor in the PI Planning
• Ensuring representation of customer portfolio items in PF-/RT-Backlogs (SAFe: ART Backlog)
• Ensure maintaining internal SAFe artifacts / processes, Risk management, PrjMan PEP related, Change Management, Lessons learned.
• Align with RTPOs & POs as technical responsible of the definition of what is delivered (what does the customer want/need)
• Estimate, specify and adapt the planning (time, budget).
• Responsible for change management affecting the project (including scope and budget).
• Approval of project-related change requests.
• PI Planning being the commercial voice of the customer. Providing inputs for prioritization to Product Owners, promoting customer centricity in the organization.
• Collect / enter generic customer requirements into appropriate tool and ensure completion of requirements evaluation. 
• Facilitate customer feature backlog prioritization
• Bringing Market needs to Product Management
• Customer program level planning, working with ARTs & People Leads on resources/capacity to deliver projects, planning resource demand in PPM.
• Leading quote creation, working with the team to prepare cost estimates and scope description, work with SCO to create quote & get approvals in IT4S (Commercial IT Toolset).

Qualifications

Key Skills & Competencies required:

• Strong lean-agile leadership skills
• Advanced experience in Release Management
• Deep understanding of Product Engineering / Development Process (PEP)
• Very good Project Management & organizational skills
• Good commercial/ financial management skills
• Result-orientation
• Basic domain-specific skills
• Strong communication & cooperation skills on different levels 
• Problem solving & conflict handling skills

Very good knowledge of scaling lean and agile methods (e.g. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, inspect & adapt, OKR) 

Additional Information

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