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We firmly believe that a culture founded on trust forms the basis for enduring relationships with clients, colleagues, and partners.\nWithin this culture, we nurture an environment of respect, inclusion, and belonging, fostering collaboration among inspired teams. We prioritize the well-being of our colleagues, the success of our clients, and our positive impact on society.\nEmbracing a growth mindset where curiosity thrives, we celebrate excellence and value individuals who inspire and mentor others, elevating the collective. Our driving force lies in personal and business growth. We go above and beyond to surprise and delight our clients, delivering tangible business value. In facing challenges, we make tough choices and solve complex problems to positively influence our clients, their customers, and the world at large.\nAs a Microsoft services partner, we hold ourselves to the highest standards of technical excellence. This commitment to quality is evident not only in our work but also in how we support and empower our employees. At Lantern, our culture mirrors our core values and unwavering dedication to realizing our purpose and vision, making it a dynamic and fulfilling workplace. Together, we transcend the ordinary and achieve extraordinary results.\nThe Delivery Manager plays a vital role in leading complex client engagements and taking ownership of successful delivery across multiple projects or workstreams. This role is accountable for effective delivery leadership, client-facing engagement, stakeholder alignment, risk management, budget oversight, and team coordination. Acting as a trusted advisor, the Delivery Manager builds strong customer relationships, identifies opportunities to create business value, and leads teams toward the deliveryof high-quality software solutions that meet agreed scope, timelines, outcomes, and quality standards.\nPosition Responsibilities\nLead project teams to deliver high-quality services within agreed timeframes, budgets, and quality expectations while proactively managing risks.\nServe as the primary delivery contact for clients, coordinating execution across functional teams and ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, budget, risks, and agreed outcomes.\nSupport project initiation and planning by drafting and maintaining project charters, proposals, and quotations that clearly define objectives, scope, budget, assumptions, constraints, and success criteria.\nPartner with stakeholders to translate business objectives into clear delivery outcomes, success measures, and reporting expectations.\nManage milestones, timelines, dependencies, risks, and resource needs by maintaining integrated delivery plans across projects or workstreams.\nProvide clear delivery reporting to stakeholders, including progress, risks, issues, decisions, budget status, and required actions.\nApply Agile and Scrum practices, where appropriate, to support predictable delivery, effective team coordination, transparent prioritization, and continuous improvement.\nCoordinate across engineering, product, design, QA, and client stakeholders to support delivery execution, resolve dependencies, and ensure commitments are met.\nEstablish and maintain delivery governance, including meeting cadence, decision tracking, status reporting, escalation paths, and accountability for follow-through.\nManage scope, change requests, delivery constraints, and stakeholder expectations to support predictable and high-quality client outcomes.\nMaintain program-level visibility across active work, including delivery status, key risks, unresolved issues, dependencies, decisions, and escalation items.\nFacilitate stakeholder decision-making by surfacing trade-offs, clarifying options, documenting decisions, and ensuring follow-through on agreed actions.\nSkills, Knowledge and Expertise\n10+ Years of enterprise-level program or delivery management experience, including:\nExperience leading complex client engagements with multiple stakeholders, teams, dependencies, and delivery workstreams.\nProven track record managing delivery plans, risks, scope, budgets, stakeholder communications, and execution in Agile consulting environments.\nExceptional skills in communication, management, problem-solving, systems thinking, and client engagement.\nExceptional skill in building and maintaining strong client relationships\nStrong consulting skills with a history of understanding client needs and ensuring their satisfaction.\nExceptional understanding of business process automation and how automation opportunities can support client delivery outcomes.\nStrong understanding of AI concepts and responsible use.\n Delivery governance and executive stakeholder reporting\nRAID management and escalation handling\nScope management, budget management, change control\nResource planning and dependency management\nCross-functional team coordination.\nPreferred Technical Skills:\nPower Platform\nSharePoint Online\nMicrosoft Teams\nData integration\nLantern is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.\nColorado Salary Range\n$130,000—$180,000 USD\nLantern is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. 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