- Company Name
- Horizontal Digital
- Job Title
- Senior Principal Delivery Manager
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior Principal Delivery Manager
**Role Summary**
Lead delivery of a Healthcare portfolio, overseeing program and project execution, coaching cross‑functional teams, and acting as the primary delivery advisor to clients. Drive delivery excellence through Agile and hybrid practices, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, and budget while building strong client relationships.
**Expectations**
* Proven ability to lead high‑performing delivery teams in consulting or agency environments.
* Strong client‑facing communication, building trust and driving continuous improvement.
* Demonstrated expertise in Agile and hybrid delivery, budget management, risk mitigation, and scope control.
* Experience managing multiple programs with distributed teams and complex stakeholder landscapes.
**Key Responsibilities**
* Portfolio leadership: oversee all Healthcare engagements, provide delivery oversight, coaching, and escalation management.
* Program and project management: lead large or multiple small programs, manage individual projects as needed.
* Delivery consulting: design and refine delivery strategies, frameworks, tools, and processes.
* Project planning and budgeting: create detailed plans, manage budgets, produce burn‑down and margin reports, adjust courses proactively.
* Risk and scope management: identify, triage, and resolve risks; manage scope changes, change orders, and prioritization.
* Client partnership: serve as primary delivery liaison, delivering status updates, managing risks, and strengthening relationships.
* Team leadership: lead globally distributed cross‑functional teams, manage resourcing and performance.
* Practice development: participate in delivery team improvement initiatives and share best practices.
**Required Skills**
* Agile & hybrid delivery expertise, including Scrum, Kanban, or similar frameworks.
* Project management tools: Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, and related Atlassian suite.
* Strong budgeting, financial reporting, and metric-driven decision making.
* Risk management, change management, and scope control.
* Excellent stakeholder management and client communication.
* Leadership of distributed, cross‑functional teams.
**Required Education & Certifications**
* Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
* Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification preferred.
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are highly valued.
St louis park, United states
Hybrid
Senior
23-02-2026