Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

The VP, Client Delivery has responsibility for monitoring, guiding and supporting our client delivery across our offices in U.S., Canada, Argentina, and Brazil.

In this role, you will lead the implementation and continuous optimization of a consistent delivery methodology for our client projects, which enables our teams to seamlessly work together across disciplines and offices, while delivering market-leading digital solutions for our clients. You’ll also establish, implement and drive a portfolio management process, which allows maximum visibility to status of client engagements across the region’s projects and programs. You will be a guide and a source of inspiration for the delivery teams across our offices in the region. While you’ll apply your deep knowledge and experience in the field, you’ll also work collaboratively with our Chief Delivery Officer to ensure practices and methodology is aligned to global guidelines and standards.

As an ideal candidate you have a very solid background in digital project delivery, and you have a proven track record in leading multi-disciplinary client delivery teams in complex environments with distributed stakeholders and teams. You know the value of routine and attention to detail, yet you’re an innovator, who’s continuously seek new methodologies and approaches to delivering digital business value for your clients. While you keep a helicopter view on the entire delivery organization, you still like to be hands-on and can dive into our client engagements when needed to ensure that they are successfully executed. You also have a business mindset, and you can contribute strategically and tactically to our continuous growth and ambition to be the leading business transformation partner for global brands and enterprises.

You’ll be measured on our ability to deliver high-quality work to our client that meets requirements and expectations in terms of timelines, budgets, business impact, and client satisfaction.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Introduce consistency in client delivery process and methodology across the region

• Establish consistency in delivery practices, activities, tools and artifacts across the end-to-

  end delivery life-cycle; this includes supporting a common global vocabulary for all things

  related to delivery

• Collaborate with leadership for business development and account management on

  frameworks and templates for client contracts (i.e. statements of work) to ensure

  consistency, and support for different types of client delivery

• Implement a Portfolio Management framework, which gives us a roll-up of status across all

  in-flight work across the Americas

• Drive the definition and implementation of a common project management toolbox that is

  aligned to global standards and best practices

• Ensure practices and guidelines for client delivery scales via training, employee onboarding, etc.

• Support Managing Directors with their team mobilization and setup of major client engagements in the region

• Step into role as executive sponsor and steering committee member for select client engagements

• Provide guidance and hands on support as program manager on strategic client engagements, should these require this

• Support the Managing Directors in their hiring decisions for key roles in the client delivery teams

• Partner with our Chief Delivery Officer and other global team members in ensuring consistency with global methodology and best practices

Qualifications

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience as Head of Client Delivery in a dynamic digital agency environment with distributed cross-functional teams

• Fluidity in leading delivery methodologies (e.g. design-thinking, agile) as well as project management frameworks (e.g. PMI, PMP)

• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities

• Outstanding communication and people skills that are proven in a global and internationally

  oriented work environment

• In-depth knowledge of diverse business- and delivery functions (e.g. strategy, creative,

  technology, client service, finance, etc.)

• Strong knowledge of data analysis and performance/operation metrics

• BSc/BA in business administration or relevant field; MSc/MA will be a plus

  WORKING RELATIONSHIP

  The role reports to the Executive Vice President, North America, with a dotted line to the Global Chief Delivery Officer. It’s a member of the Senior Leadership Team, which includes all other major business functions, incl. Managing Directors for each office. It collaborates closely with delivery leads from across the offices, each that are led by a Managing Director.

PLACE OF WORK

The right candidate will have one of our offices in North America as home office, but location depends on where we find the right candidate. Travel will be required to be successful in the role.

Additional Information

HERE’S WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK FOR US:

We’re advisors, visionaries, creative and techies…with an agency mindset. We believe in working together, and that the best results come when we pool our knowledge and brainstorm the right solution for our customers.

WE EMBRACE ALL THINGS DIGITAL.

Our ambition is to become global leader in the digital space. No more, no less. Our customers look to us to help them succeed in the digital landscape. We deliver work that makes them the leaders in their industries, based on a thorough understanding of their business and a close collaboration with their employees.

WE TALK TO EACH OTHER.

We work in an open environment, with business developers, web technologists, strategists and creatives sitting side-by-side, pooling their collective wisdom in order to come up with the best solution for our clients.

WE HAVE FUN.

We don’t believe in boredom. We do work hard, and we put in the hours we need to get the job done, but we also have a vibrant, dynamic atmosphere with passionate colleagues who enjoy what they do.

WE LOVE OUR CLIENTS.

Seriously! They are the reason why we are here. And why wouldn’t we? We are working with some of the biggest and most interesting brands in the world, along with a lot of other companies that all have great ambition to succeed in the digital space.

WE’RE GLOBAL.

Valtech has over 2,400+ employees across 35 offices worldwide. In North America, we have offices in New York, Dallas, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal.

WE’RE LOOKING AHEAD.

We are driven by a visionary mindset, and that means there is plenty of room for initiative and for talented people to shape who we are tomorrow.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.