Delivery Assurance Manager safeguarding client engagements at Bits In Glass, an AI and automation consulting firm. Leading escalation recovery, portfolio assurance, delivery standards, and AI-enabled reporting.
Responsibilities
Lead assigned client engagements across engagements of varying size and platform
Own delivery outcomes, client relationship health, and engagement margin
Mobilize new programs through the establishment window and transition them to steady-state ownership
Deliver paid delivery assessments and independent program reviews
Act as the intake point for delivery escalations, triaging, routing, or assuming ownership
Assume time-bound delivery leadership of engagements entering recovery
Diagnose root causes across delivery approach, estimation, staffing, governance, and client relationship management
Produce and execute recovery plans, including re-baselining, revised governance, staffing changes, and client resets
Support client-facing recovery narratives and define exit criteria for return to steady state
Run independent gate reviews at mobilization, baseline, SIT entry, UAT entry, go-live readiness, and hypercare exit
Maintain a portfolio health view covering schedule, margin, scope, quality, team stability, and client sentiment
Operate early-warning triggers and convene reviews when triggered
Report portfolio health to the Head of Solution Delivery on a fixed cadence
Ensure significant engagements have a named deputy and documented continuity plan
Use Claude and comparable tools to automate portfolio health reporting, status synthesis, and variance analysis
Build reusable review templates, risk checklists, and estimation challenge prompts
Reduce manual reporting burden and demonstrate measurable automation time savings
Own the delivery playbook, gate criteria, and estimation standards and drive adoption
Convert recovery findings into preventive changes to standards, templates, and estimating practices
Coach delivery and program managers and contribute to leadership bench development
Support pre-sales through delivery-approach review, estimation challenge, and risk identification
Requirements
8+ years in consulting or project delivery, including program or engagement leadership
Demonstrated turnaround of at-risk client programs, including the client-facing element
Commercial fluency across fixed-price, T&M, and managed services constructs
Ownership of engagement margin
Credibility with client executive stakeholders and ability to hold difficult conversations without damaging relationships
Track record of influence without direct authority across peer delivery leaders
Demonstrated use of AI tooling to automate delivery reporting or analysis
Comfortable carrying a billable target and being deployed to engagements of any size
Comfortable being unwelcome on arrival and useful on departure
Willing to attribute failure to BIG accurately when that is the finding
Treats no assignment as beneath the role
Delivery experience on low-code platforms or comparable enterprise platforms (nice to have)
Prior formal assurance, PMO, or quality-gate ownership (nice to have)
Experience in a boutique or mid-market consultancy spanning delivery, commercial, and pre-sales (nice to have)
Benefits
Recognized as a Great Place to Work
Collaboration, innovation, and celebrating wins together
AI-enabled work using Claude and comparable tooling
Opportunity to build reusable delivery-assurance assets
Coaching and delivery leadership bench development
Billable delivery role with exposure to varied client engagements and technologies
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