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Technical Delivery Team Manager

Technical Delivery Team Manager

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Freelance

26-03-2025

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Job Specifications

Job Title: Technology Delivery Head
Location: Northampton or London
Permanent

Retail Utility/Energy background is mandatory

Job Summary / Role Purpose
This is a key role within Data team, supporting our product owners and innovation team in creating and maintaining products, incubating new services and solutions through the development of POCs, MVPs all the way through to viable launches to deliver value to a wide range of energy industry participants.
As the Head of Innovation and Product, you will lead a team of product owners collaborating with various stakeholders within company and across the energy sector to nurture existing products and bring new products to market, all while driving profitable growth.
The candidate will be supporting the product owners through product lifecycle management, executing plans aligned with organisational objectives and client needs, and fostering continual improvement of our products whilst achieving commercialisation, sales and profitability. The ability to lead, coach and drive high performance behaviours and culture from your team will be fundamental to your success as well as providing support to Client's SMT.
You will have an agile mindset and experience of building and coding proof of concepts all the way through to robust, scalable commercial products.
We are looking for someone who can work with our senior management and business development leads to conceive and deliver forward looking solutions, proof of concepts, and minimal viable products.

What you will do
Key elements of the role include:
• Working in conjunction with Client’s senior stakeholders and Senior Management Team to constantly evolve the 3-5 year product roadmap to ensure the organisation evolves to continue to serve the energy market
• Working closely with the sales team, individual product owners and wider industry to drive new ideas into the product roadmaps
• Develop and deliver on a multi-year product roadmap to ensure a continuous pipeline of new and innovative products
• Develop business case proposals
• Maintain competitive information
• Identify trends and new product segments
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure product launches and promotions are executed on time throughout the year
• Interact with customers to understand product performance
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of each product
• Continuously engage with internal and external customers to understand their evolving needs and draw inspiration from their input to shape the future of our platforms
• Support prioritisation of innovation opportunities by combining customer and competitor insight to build reasoned recommendations
• Be responsible for a small team of dedicated developers as well being able to draw on a cross-functional team of SMEs to build strong business cases for a wide range of innovation projects, from early proposition exploration through to live pilots and scaling of solutions
• Assume a high level of ownership of all work developed by members of the team
• Managing innovation budget including forecasting, resource allocation and prioritisation

Your Key Relationships in this role
Person / Team Nature of Relationship
Chief Data Officer Line Manager
Innovation Lead Line Report
Product Owners Line Report
Sales and Marketing To share market intelligence and access to customer for products developed in this team

Skills & knowledge you will need:
• The candidate should come from a technical delivery or development background
• 5 years + experience of building data focused products
• Experience of leading and delivering innovation and product initiatives
• Knowledge of disruptive technologies, key trends and customer demands in the energy industry
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence audiences at all levels
• Ability to explain data designs, issues and recommendations to non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Well organised, structured approach to work

Highly desirable skills:
• Knowledge of energy market needs
• Expertise on modern software delivery techniques including SAFE and DevOps
• Working knowledge of UK electricity and gas market systems, including systems which interface to central market functions

About the Company

Vallum Associates offer best in class talent acquisition on a contingency, retained, or project basis. Through our dedicated sector consultants, our specialised brands have the knowledge and connections to provide tailored hiring and project services across industries : * Banking & Financial * Energy, Utilities & Commodities * Engineering & Renewable * Insurance Services Our specialised industry and sector specific consultants are able to offer a personalised experience to fit your needs. Our unique associate consultativ... Know more