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Job Details: Director - Solution Delivery Manager
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Vacancy Name
Vacancy Name Director - Solution Delivery Manager
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Location(s) Dublin
Employment Type
Employment Type Permanent
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Description
Carne is focused on attracting and retaining the best talent to deliver an unrivalled service to its clients. Whilst working with Carne, you will be provided with opportunities to develop your skills and experience by working in a dynamic, innovative, and multicultural environment where exciting careers are built.
Who are we looking for?
We are currently recruiting for a Director of Solution Delivery to join our Carne Product and Technology team. By joining our team, you will be pivotal to the delivery of technology and product solutions for clients. Reporting to the Managing Director for Product and Data Solutions, you will lead strategic projects, drive operational excellence and high performance, and enable the Carne team to do their best work.
As the lead of our Solution Delivery team, you will deliver business critical products and programmes of work for some of Carne's largest clients, being responsible for the end-to-end management and delivery while focusing on driving business value.
You will work with key internal stakeholders including Strategy, Product, Technology, Business Development, Operations and Risk to ensure our products and technology solutions are designed, optimised and delivered to meet the overall business vision and ultimately satisfy our customers' needs.
What are the minimum Requirements you need for the role?
- At least 10 years experience working in Technology, Product, Financial Services and/or similar regulated industries, preferably at a time of scale & growth
- Results oriented professional with demonstrable experience in delivering strategic programmes of work, using agile methodologies and managing cross functional teams
- Experience in product development, product management, operational excellence, analytics and data driven frameworks is preferred
- Strong experience in agile and scrum development methodologies
- Domain knowledge of funds industry or related Financial Services knowledge is a distinct advantage
- Experience of managing people and developing high performance teams
- Professional Certification in Project Management and/or agile scrum disciplines is a distinct advantage
Carne is focused on attracting and retaining the best talent to deliver an unrivalled service to its clients. Whilst working with Carne, you will be provided with opportunities to develop your skills and experience by working in a dynamic, innovative, and multicultural environment where exciting careers are built.
Who are we looking for?
We are currently recruiting for a Director of Solution Delivery to join our Carne Product and Technology team. By joining our team, you will be pivotal to the delivery of technology and product solutions for clients. Reporting to the Managing Director for Product and Data Solutions, you will lead strategic projects, drive operational excellence and high performance, and enable the Carne team to do their best work.
As the lead of our Solution Delivery team, you will deliver business critical products and programmes of work for some of Carne's largest clients, being responsible for the end-to-end management and delivery while focusing on driving business value.
You will work with key internal stakeholders including Strategy, Product, Technology, Business Development, Operations and Risk to ensure our products and technology solutions are designed, optimised and delivered to meet the overall business vision and ultimately satisfy our customers' needs.
What are the minimum Requirements you need for the role?
- At least 10 years experience working in Technology, Product, Financial Services and/or similar regulated industries, preferably at a time of scale & growth
- Results oriented professional with demonstrable experience in delivering strategic programmes of work, using agile methodologies and managing cross functional teams
- Experience in product development, product management, operational excellence, analytics and data driven frameworks is preferred
- Strong experience in agile and scrum development methodologies
- Domain knowledge of funds industry or related Financial Services knowledge is a distinct advantage
- Experience of managing people and developing high performance teams
- Professional Certification in Project Management and/or agile scrum disciplines is a distinct advantage
(1) Solution Delivery lead on key strategic initiatives, ensuring they move at pace and have impact by:
- Leading Carne's Solution Delivery team, managing delivery end-to-end from initial scoping and planning activities through to execution
- Partnering with teams across Product and Technology team and wider Carne group to drive execution on important strategic initiatives, while driving operational scale and efficiency
- Developing and integrating product and technology delivery roadmaps that align to business risk and value and that optimise the utilisation of resources, through interaction with product managers and key business stakeholders
- Managing the intake process for the Product and Technology function, ensuring new asks are captured, prioritised and align with the company's objectives
- Allocating, mentoring, and coaching Agile Delivery Managers and Business Analysts within your team
- Managing, controlling and measuring initiatives against assigned budget, resourcing and schedule
- Ability to report and communicate effectively on progress against detailed project plans, including leading critical issues, risks and dependencies, reporting any variances in budget and schedule as early as possible
- Building strong client and stakeholder relationships and maintaining effective communication channels to drive actions and deliverables, ensuring critical decisions are escalated promptly in order to maintain progress
- Operating as a trusted business advisor for our clients in the delivery of complex technical projects, ensuring difficult challenges are navigated with dexterity but safely in order to achieve the optimum outcome
- Assisting with the definition of the post-implementation support and operating model and ensuring a smooth transition into BAU for each product as it is deployed.
- Championing best in class operational processes, tooling, and documentation ensuring they are fit for purpose and embedded within the organisation to achieve overall department and company goals
- Communicating clear priorities, activities and desired outcomes and ensuring fit for purpose governance, prioritisation and decision making is in place
- Development of objectives for your team and regular reporting of same to monitor your team's overall performance and to ensure tracking against achieve desired outcomes
- Being an effective leader, who can mentor and nurture your team in an open and high performing environment where team members can thrive
- Using your unique perspective and experiences to help us think creatively about how to approach many of our biggest challenges and opportunities
- Upholding Carne's key cultural and operating principles
- Organised, structured thinker that can navigate different projects, tools and stakeholders and communicate status, progress, issues, and changes to diverse audiences, including senior management
- Analytical and data-oriented, with the ability to define and manage objectives and dashboards to measure against key team and department goals and objectives
- Partnership and collaborative mindset. Empathetic and effective at influencing a range of stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal, ability to structure arguments and influence and manage key stakeholders
- Ability to work across multiple initiatives in parallel and prioritise own workload
- Self-directed and comfortable making evidence-based, data-driven decisions
- Self-aware with a growth mindset; someone who is excited by steep learning curves
- Adaptable, flexible and effective at navigating ambiguity with limited supervision
- Humble, someone who is passionate about having real impact while helping other along the way
Who is Carne Group?
Carne Group has established itself in the funds industry with $2tn in AUM supported by 600+ staff and four regulated management companies. Together with a large team of industry specialists, Carne serves more than 650+ traditional and alternative asset management clients from key fund jurisdictions and financial hubs including Ireland, Luxembourg, Zurich, Lisbon, London, New York, Cayman and Channel Islands.
Excellence and innovation are central to Carne's work and we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent to deliver an unrivalled service to our clients. Whilst working with Carne, you will be provided with opportunities to develop your skills and experience by working in a dynamic, innovative, and multicultural environment where exciting careers are built.
We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the asset management industry. Not sure if you meet all the requirements? Let us decide Research shows that members of other under-represented groups tend not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when in fact, they do At Carne we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.