Delivery Manager

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Company Description

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world's top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,500 employees located across twelve offices.

Job Description

Are you a driven Delivery Manager ready to play a key role in delivering cutting-edge technology for the world's leading investors? At Third Bridge, you'll be instrumental in driving important product enhancement and deployment projects, contributing directly to our market-leading investment research solutions. This role is about hands-on delivery, ensuring our technology evolves to meet the needs of our demanding client base.

What will you do?

You'll manage key technology initiatives, guiding them from planning through to successful implementation. You'll be focused on efficient execution, ensuring our products are delivered with quality and provide real value to our clients - over 1,000 of the top investment firms globally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Initiative Execution: Drive the end-to-end delivery of assigned product enhancement and deployment projects.
• Progress Management: Monitor project progress, identify potential roadblocks, and contribute to risk mitigation.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with development, product, and design teams to ensure alignment.
• Release Support: Contribute to the planning and execution of product releases.
• Requirements Collaboration: Assist in the understanding and documentation of project requirements.
• Backlog Contribution: Work with the team to maintain and refine the project backlog.
• Requirements Clarification: Support the team in clarifying requirements ahead of development.
• Status Reporting: Provide regular updates on project status and escalate any issues.
• Process Improvement: Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement within the delivery team.

You'll be an important member of our global technology team, collaborating with colleagues across our international offices. We value teamwork, clear communication, and a shared commitment to delivering excellent solutions for the investment research community.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring:

• Experience: Project/delivery management within a technical environment.
• Prioritization Skills: Ability to manage tasks effectively and contribute to the prioritization process.
• Attention to Detail: A focus on accuracy and thoroughness in project management tasks.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively within a team to achieve common goals.
• Agile Awareness: Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and their practical application.
• Communication Skills: Good written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with project management or issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira).
• Relationship Skills: Ability to build positive working relationships with team members.
• Proactive Approach: A willingness to learn and contribute actively to project success.

Bonus: Experience within the financial services or information services sector, or familiarity with the needs of investment professionals.

Additional Information

How will you be rewarded?

We truly care about our people so in return for your work, you'll get:

• Vacation: 25 days (which increases to 28 days after 2 years of service) plus UK Bank Holidays
• Learning: personal development allowance of £1000 per year
• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan, a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health, Ride to Work scheme (savings on bikes and accessories)
• Future and family: pension contributions of 4% (increases with tenure) and life insurance of 4x of your base salary
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'
• Social: optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events
• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)
• Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative, we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100% sure if you are right for the role, please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application.