Job description
Project overview
Senior Delivery Manager
6-Month Contract | Hybrid (2 Days per Week Onsite) | UK Wide
Were looking for an experienced Senior Delivery Manager to join a major public sector digital transformation programme. This is an opportunity to lead complex delivery activity across multiple teams and suppliers, helping to drive successful outcomes within a large-scale, fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
Essential Experience
- Lead the delivery of complex digital programmes and services, coordinating multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Rapidly establish effective governance, reporting frameworks, delivery controls and ways of working.
- Manage supplier relationships, ensuring alignment around shared priorities, milestones and delivery plans.
- Oversee dependencies, risks, issues, blockers, resources and delivery budgets, escalating where required.
- Provide clear, evidence-based reporting to senior stakeholders on progress, risks, decisions and financial position.
- Foster strong collaboration between technical teams, delivery partners and business stakeholders.
- Balance pace, quality and governance in a dynamic and often ambiguous delivery environment.
- Support knowledge transfer and capability build-up, leaving sustainable delivery practices in place.
- Significant experience operating at Senior Delivery Manager level within complex digital delivery environments.
- Strong background working across multi-supplier and/or managed service delivery models.
- Proven ability to mobilise delivery teams quickly and implement proportionate governance structures.
- Experience managing delivery spend, resource planning, risks, issues and cross-team dependencies.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including reporting to senior leadership.
- Strong leadership, facilitation and relationship-building capability.
- Ability to make sound decisions in fast-moving environments with competing priorities.
- Strong understanding of Agile delivery and user-centred design principles, with the ability to apply methodologies pragmatically rather than rigidly.
Project details
- Start: flexible
- Location: London, UK, GB
- Rate: 63-91 EUR/h
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