Principal Delivery Manager, Financial Times
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
Job no longer available
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- Shown experience in project and programme management with both traditional and Agile methodologies. Including coaching Agile teams, workshop facilitation, and structured problem-solving
- Strong planning and risk management skills, including proactively offering timely risk mitigations with well considered pros and cons
- Pan-business stakeholder management experience, including handling challenging stakeholders and those in C-suite and Board-level
- Strong experience addressing executive sponsors, adapting communication to non-technical staff at all levels
- Experience in digital product and platform development
- Vendor management experience
- Strong leadership skills, able to inspire and develop staff
- You’re obsessed with finding value and driving delivery
- Skilled in communication, can creating clarity in complex environments and able to reslove conflicts
- Strategic problem solver with a focus on efficient delivery processes
- Proactive influencer and adept at handling dependencies and risks
- This role is ideal for a strategic leader who excels in handling complex projects, driving operational excellence, and mentoring teams to achieve impactful results
What the job involves
- The Portfolio Discipline is a hugely rewarding team to work in. We see ourselves as the practical magic that happens behind the scenes to support our colleagues in Product, Technology, Data and across the business
- Our collective Team Vision is to focus on driving operational excellence, and unlock the quickest path to value. We transform ideas into outcomes via collaborative teamwork, enhancing efficiency, demystifying budgets and translating strategies into impactful results
- The Principal Delivery Manager will be part of the Delivery Management Function within the Portfolio Discipline at Financial Times. This senior role involves contributing to the management of the Portfolio Discipline across Product & Technology groups (domain areas), leading strategic delivery initiatives, deputising for the Portfolio Director, and supervising complex projects and programmes
- Deputise for Portfolio Directors in pan-group activities
- Support transparency and governance across the department
- Facilitate large group discussions and resolve conflicts
- Lead complex projects and programmes from concept to implementation
- Maintain detailed oversight while achieving overall objectives
- Raise challenges early, providing decision-makers with creative solutions, backed by contextual awareness and well-articulated trade-offs and impact
- Tailor methodologies to project contexts
- Deliver products and changes leading to broader strategic outcomes
- Implement improvements at the Portfolio level within specific groups or departments
- Line manage and support the development of Delivery team members
- Upskill the Portfolio Discipline team in project management and other relevant areas
- Improve team processes and culture, reinforcing an inclusive and respectful environment
- Encourage a “one team” approach across FT for positive collaboration
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
52% female employees
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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