Location: This hybrid role requires 3 days on-site at our Burnaby, BC office and 2 days remote per week.
What You'll DoAs a Data Delivery Manager, you'll lead the successful delivery of data products and services that support Specsavers' strategic goals and data transformation journey. Working across a variety of business functions, you'll partner with stakeholders, technical teams, and product owners to drive high-quality outcomes, manage delivery risks, and ensure value is delivered efficiently. You'll foster a culture of continuous improvement while providing leadership, structure, and visibility across complex data initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end delivery of data projects and initiatives across multiple business areas, including retail, clinical, and supply chain.
- Lead one or more data-focused delivery teams to ensure successful, high-quality delivery aligned with business and data strategy objectives.
- Develop, maintain, and execute delivery plans while effectively balancing capacity, demand, timelines, and priorities.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, technical teams, and stakeholders to refine and prioritize backlogs.
- Facilitate delivery meetings and Agile ceremonies, promoting effective team collaboration and transparency.
- Monitor delivery performance, milestones, resource allocation, risks, dependencies, and unplanned work.
- Provide regular reporting and stakeholder communications on project status, progress, capacity, and risks.
- Manage changes in scope, requirements, budgets, and timelines while maintaining alignment with business objectives.
- Ensure solutions are appropriately tested, including functional, regression, user acceptance, performance, and end-to-end testing.
- Support compliance with information security, data privacy, regulatory, and governance requirements, including GDPR.
- Work closely with data architects and technical teams to align delivery outcomes with enterprise architecture standards.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by evaluating delivery practices, methodologies, and emerging technologies.
What We're Looking For- 2+ years of experience delivering data products and services within a matrixed or cross-functional environment.
- Proven track record of successfully delivering data projects in fast-paced, complex, and evolving environments.
- Experience managing medium-to-large projects or portfolios of smaller initiatives.
- Experience using both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including product, technical, architecture, and business stakeholders.
- Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, adapt to changing priorities, and remain calm under pressure.
- Understanding of data platforms and technologies such as Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI.
- Foundational knowledge of data warehousing and data modelling concepts.
- Awareness of regulatory and compliance requirements, including GDPR and data governance principles.
- Relevant project or delivery certifications (Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2, PMI, APM, or similar) are considered an asset.
- A collaborative, proactive, and solutions-focused mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and delivering business value.
Compensation: $110,000 - $125,000 base salary, plus quarterly bonus, profit sharing, and benefits. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience
Speccies' Benefits - 4 weeks of vacation and 1 paid volunteer day per year
- 1 extra paid day off plus an eyecare voucher to celebrate your birthday.
- Health and dental benefits, RRSP matching and a Healthcare Spending Account active from your first day.
- Mental health and wellbeing support, including $3,000 annually for practitioner care and access to our Employee Assistance Program.
- Quarterly bonuses, based on your performance.
- Annual Profit Share program to recognize your part in Specsavers' success.
- Free parking, access to the building gym, and a fully stocked kitchen with snacks and coffee/tea.
- On-site wellness offerings in-office, including RMT and yoga sessions.
- Team and company social events, including holiday and annual celebrations.
Behaviours We Value - Collaborative: We work together as one Specsavers to deliver on our purpose
- Curious: We question, explore, and seek out diverse perspectives to develop our knowledge and understanding
- Courageous: We challenge the status quo, we experiment with good ideas, and we are brave, bold, and fast in our decision making
- Compassionate: We care, support, and help each other
- Commercial: We treat money wisely and make decisions that are good for our customers, our partners, our people and for the long term
We hope that in applying with us, you value these things as well!
Our Hybrid Work ModelExperience the best of both worlds. At Specsavers, we embrace a hybrid approach that balances in-office collaboration with the flexibility to work from home. We come together in office three days a week to connect, innovate, and keep our culture thriving.
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