Delivery Manager

Location: Holon
About Us
Sapiens is a global leader in the insurance industry, delivering its award-winning, cloud-based SaaS insurance platform to over 600 customers in more than 30 countries. Sapiens’ platform offers pre-integrated, low-code capabilities to accelerate customers’ digital transformation. With more than 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens has a highly professional team of over 5,000 employees globally.
Job Description
As a Delivery Manager, you will have experience in Agile delivery in a global context across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ideally for the general insurance, property & casualty, life, pensions and annuities markets.
Main Responsibilities
As a Delivery Manager your main responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):

• Deliver the software on time, on scope, on quality, and on budget, using the appropriate Agile project management methodology, and ensure full customer satisfaction as defined in the SOW;
• Meeting tight timelines and motivating the team to meet project deadlines;
• Managing the project’s end-to-end life-cycle activities, including analysis & design, development, testing, implementation and integration;
• Managing the project’s scheduling, resource planning, budget & time tracking;
• Work closely with the customer and the project team to define the gaps for any given requirement and translate them into user stories;
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, facilitate status meetings and present to large groups;
• Identify problems, mediate issues, develop solutions, and implement an appropriate course of action;
• Build strong relationships with internal customers, stakeholders, and integration teams to ensure delivery is smooth and customer-centric;
• Leadership and management of project delivery teams in a distributed global environment, including:

• Direct management of Team Leaders and matrix Management of a Delivery multidisciplinary team;
• Development and cross-training of the team to further improve technical and business knowledge to help us achieve exceptional results;
• Building good relationships with distributed delivery teams across the globe.
  

• At least 5 years of proven experience working in a large software development teams distributed across the globe;
• In-depth understanding and experience of the management of the software development life cycle (SDLC) from the initiation of a project plan to full execution;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Experience of negotiating with customers and clients regarding scope and delivery schedules;
• Experience managing dispersed delivery teams in a matrix environment;
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Experience in Waterfall and mainly in Agile delivery and tools (JIRA experience – An advantage);
• Familiarity with insurance domain / financial services – An advantage;
• Ability to travel globally.
  

• Excellent written and verbal skills in English.
• Additional languages - an advantage