Job Description
Engagement Purpose
Partner with Digital Product Managers across multiple digital solutions to plan, coordinate, and deliver complex digital initiatives.
The contractor acts as a delivery integrator, ensuring product roadmaps translate into executable plans that are delivered in-scope, on time, on budget, to the required quality, and in line with Solenis governance.
This role does not own product strategy or people management. It exists to make delivery happen.
Success Measures
- Digital initiatives delivered as planned against agreed scope, timeline, quality, and budget.
- Clear visibility of delivery status, risks, and financials at all times.
- Minimal launch issues due to proactive risk management.
- Product Managers experience reduced delivery friction and increased execution reliability.
- Stakeholders trust delivery reporting and decision inputs.
Scope of Services
1. Digital Delivery Partnership (Core)
- Partner with multiple Digital Product Managers to translate product roadmaps into executable delivery plans.
- Align delivery activities across technology, data, UX, IT architecture, security, and business stakeholders.
- Manage cross-solution dependencies, sequencing, and release coordination.
- Act as the primary delivery point of contact for assigned digital initiatives.
2. Project & Initiative Execution
- Plan, schedule, and coordinate delivery of multiple concurrent digital initiatives.
- Track and report milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies across solutions.
- Drive resolution of delivery blockers through structured escalation and data-led options.
- Maintain delivery cadence, governance checkpoints, and operational readiness for releases.
- Where applicable, translates delivery to R&D Stage-Gate milestones and deliverables
3. Financial & Commercial Stewardship
- Track delivery spends against approved CAPEX budgets.
- Support source-to-pay activities including SOW scope alignment, change control, vendor onboarding, PO creation, invoice validation and Goods Receipt
- Provide clear, defensible delivery cost and forecast reporting to Product and Digital Operations leadership.
4. Vendor Coordination
- Coordinate external vendors and system integrators in line with agreed SOWs.
- Ensure vendor deliverables align to product priorities, timelines, and quality expectations.
- Highlight scope creep, delivery risk, or commercial misalignment early.
5. Governance & Ways of Working
- Apply Solenis delivery governance, architecture checkpoints, and reporting standards.
- Maintain delivery artefacts required for IT, Architecture, Security, and Finance oversight.
- Drive consistency of delivery execution across multiple product teams without imposing unnecessary bureaucracy.
Decision Authority
- Adjust delivery sequencing, timelines, and resourcing within approved scope and budget.
- Recommend go / no-go decisions for releases from a delivery readiness perspective.
- Escalate material scope, cost, or risk decisions to Digital Operations and Product Development leadership.
Required Experience
- 5+ years delivering digital or technology initiatives in complex, cross-functional environments.
- Proven experience working alongside Product Managers, not replacing them.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel initiatives with shared dependencies.
- Strong experience with delivery financials, vendor coordination, and commercial governance.
- Comfortable operating in global, distributed teams.
Tools & Working Environment
- Experience with delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Monday.com, Teams, SharePoint, or equivalent.
- Globally connected, remote-first working model.
- Occasional travel (up to ~10%) if required for key delivery milestones.
Explicitly Out of Scope (Important)
- People management or performance management
- Ownership of product strategy or roadmap decisions
- Long-term organizational design or PMO headcount planning
