Delivery Lead

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

This role is within a new, specialized department of our Global Studios team. We build best in class digital experiences, delivering products that demand exceptional craft for the world's biggest tech companies.

The Delivery Lead serves as the operational linchpin for the Global Studio team, spearheading staffing operations and ensuring seamless coordination across multi-disciplinary teams. In this capacity, you will partner with the Head of Delivery and various Craft and Client teams to orchestrate high-quality, on-time, and on-budget project delivery. The role focuses on scaling and flexing Studio resources to meet evolving client needs through process optimization and the strategic application of technology. You are independently accountable for excellent operational delivery and for mentoring the wider delivery team to achieve sustained performance and efficiency.

• Direct Staffing Operations: Oversee all Studios staffing activity, ensuring clear, proactive, solutions oriented communication and setting firm boundaries where necessary. 
• Optimize Staffing Allocation: Monitor and prioritize staffing requests, ensuring alignment with business priorities defined by Delivery Leadership.
• Facilitate Stakeholder Alignment: Chair weekly resourcing and craft meetings, providing leadership status updates and fostering cross-functional alignment.
• Manage Talent Mobility: Execute end-to-end account transitions and staff moves, prioritizing a seamless employee experience, involving the right stakeholders at the right time and ensuring absolute clarity amongst all stakeholders.
• Strategize Staffing Solutions: Develop and implement comprehensive staffing models for new business (internal, freelance, or recruitment) and oversee the flexible 'Relay' team in coordination with Pioneers.
• Capacity Forecasting and Escalation: Lead capacity forecasting initiatives with the Head of Delivery and resolve complex staffing escalations with actionable, timely solutions, involving senior leadership as required.
• Cultivate Staff Experience: Prioritize the employee experience within all staffing operations, ensuring that transitions and allocations support professional growth and engagement.

• Govern Jira Workflow: Manage the lifecycle of Jira tickets for freelance and new hires, ensuring strict adherence to approval protocols and maintaining data integrity for efficient sign-off.
• Administer Fixed-Term Contracts (FTC): Oversee the review, approval, and extension of FTC staff, ensuring regulatory compliance and alignment with regional operational priorities.
• Operational Optimisation: Conduct bi-weekly process reviews, implementing efficiency gains and driving the adoption of AI and automation within staffing operations.
• Team Leadership: Track workload and oversee priorities for the junior delivery team, providing mentorship and stretch projects to foster professional development.

• Maintain Data Accuracy: Ensure 100% accuracy of staffing data within Airtable and oversee the reporting dashboard to provide leadership with actionable insights.
• Analyze Operational Performance: Oversee the production of staffing reports, providing high-level analysis and proposed action plans to optimize Studio performance.
• Drive KPI Benchmarks: Proactively monitor and achieve departmental KPIs, developing strategic corrective measures when performance metrics require realignment.
• Translate Strategy: Ensure business  priorities and performance health actions are integrated into staffing operations and delivery initiatives.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Excellence in critical thinking and leadership.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex workflows simultaneously
• Proven track record of establishing and independently governing operational functions.
• Ability to navigate and manage ambiguous situations, supporting leadership in establishing the best way forward
• In-depth expertise in Marketing agency operations and delivery processes
• Superior communication and interpersonal skills to unite diverse teams on complex topics 
• Consistent drive to analyse and improve ways of working and processes  
• Strong data management skills with ability to create reports as well as provide commentary and analysis and translate this into operational action plans

We are pioneers at heart. What does that mean? We are always looking forward, thinking of what we can create tomorrow that does not exist today. We were born digital and we are a new model of agency, with a deep skillset in tech and marketing. That’s why we hire curious, self-driven, talented people who never stop innovating. 

Our culture is big enough to cope and small enough to care. Meaning, that with people across 30+ countries, we’re big enough to provide you with the best tools, global opportunities, and benefits that help you thrive. While acting small by investing in you, your growth, your team, and giving you the autonomy to solve our clients problems, no matter where you are in the world.

DEPT® is committed to making a positive impact on the planet and since 2021 has been Climate Neutral and B Corporation certified.

At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives.

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine.

We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us.

Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.