Delivery Lead

Olympus, one of the largest medical technology companies globally, in collaboration with BCG X, is building a new Digital Unit that will be tasked with innovating and building three new strategic products that will expand on its product offerings and impact across the globe.

For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people's lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping detect, prevent, and treat disease, furthering scientific research, ensuring public safety, and capturing images of the world. Olympus medical solutions and products are used to provide better diagnostic outcomes for millions of patients across the globe.

The new Digital Unit will focus on experimenting, incubating and bringing to market new technological offerings and digital products that will not only enhance Olympus's position in the market but spearhead the development of new technologies that will reconceptualize the experience for both patients and medical professionals globally.

The Delivery Lead is responsible for driving solution delivery for a specific Business Domain. Through establishing ways of working and guiding the delivery teams using a variety of techniques, the Delivery Lead aims to execute the roadmap of the relevant Business Domain. The role involves empowering and coaching delivery teams to realize the value while relentlessly focussing on removing impediments.

The Delivery Lead works closely with the technical lead (e.g., Lead Engineer, Solution Architect) and roles representing 'voice of the customer' (e.g., Product Owner, Business Relationship Manager) to meet the needs of the business through high-quality solutions.

In this role it is critical to build trusted relationships across other delivery teams to align roadmaps and execution plans, manage risks and meet compliance responsibilities.

**In your role as Delivery Lead, you will focus on**:
**Delivery Roadmap**:

- Work collaboratively with the technical lead (e.g., Lead Engineer, Solution Architect), the 'voice of the customer' (e.g., Product Owner, Business Relationship Manager) and central IT portfolio management to ensure roadmaps strike the right balance between business delivery, technology enablement and operations work in terms of scope, timeline and budget.
- Provide guidance to the delivery team to ensure initiatives are well-defined and ready to work on.

**Delivery Management**:

- Manage the operational aspects of the delivery team, ensuring financial, risk, legal, security and other compliance requirements are met.
- Work with the delivery team to ensure completed features get into the production environment and into the hands of stakeholders.
- Maximize the flow of value delivered, systematically measuring, and removing impediments, and ensuring a metrics-focused approach to measure objective realization and performance.
- Ensure supplier performance, including alignment with the organization's ways of working and values, assessing performance and fostering strong relationships that encourage continuous improvement and innovation.
- Empower and coach teams in their ways of working and to realize value in the best way possible.
- Share insights that help improve productivity, leveraging knowledge of software delivery methods, Agile principles and methods, project management approaches, and industry best practices.

**Communications and Stakeholder Management**:

- Enhance communication and build trusting relationships across teams to align roadmaps, coordinate initiatives, manage risks and compliance responsibilities.
- Provide key insights to stakeholders on the progress of an initiative or feature from inception to delivery and into production, including visibility to development efforts and value metrics.

**People Management**:

- Lead, motivate, develop, and appraise team members so that their individual and collective performance is of the required standard and meets the current and future needs of the business.

**A successful Delivery Lead for this role should have**:

- Bachelor's degree or higher in a computer or business field (or equivalent and related experience preferred).
- Certification in agile methodologies is, depending on the assigned area, desired (not mandatory).
- Minimum of 5-8 years' experience in the assigned Business Domain/area.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in a leadership role.
- In-depth knowledge of the assigned Business Domain/area and the corresponding processes, including key performance indicators, best-in-class practices, business, and technology trends.
- Experience in project/product/platform management.
- Understanding of Agile and lean methodologies as well as Business domain expertise.
- Broad understanding of IT topics such as (e.g., cloud products and platforms, micro-service architectures, automation, and API integration)
- Experience in both managing people and processes.
- Experience leading, supporting and mentoring a team
- Experience working with Program Managers, Project M