Burendo

Senior Delivery Manager

Burendo

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Leeds • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AzureServiceNow

About the role

  • We’re looking to hire an experienced Senior Delivery Manager on a permanent basis to join our growing team. You’ll be a key member of our consultancy team and will find yourself supporting delivery teams as they deliver using Agile methodologies.

Requirements

  • __**Must have skills**__
  • - **Portfolio management** – End-to-end delivery ownership of multiple complex technical workstreams working to time, cost, quality and scope.
  • - **Agile methodologies** - A comprehensive understanding of Agile principles and practices and the ability to coach and uplift teams
  • - **Risk management** - The ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks before they become issues across complex delivery landscapes. Know when to escalate.
  • - **Dependency management** - Exceptional skill at mapping and managing dependencies across teams, workstreams, and external factors in the most complex scenarios
  • - **Forecasting** - Extensive experience creating and maintaining strategic roadmaps that balance ambition with reality, often across multiple large initiatives
  • - **Prioritisation** - Excellent judgement in helping teams focus on what matters most and deliver maximum value, even in highly ambiguous and complex situations
  • - **Stakeholder management** - Outstanding at building relationships and managing expectations across diverse and senior stakeholder groups at all levels
  • - **Transparency** - Extensive hands-on experience in Jira, and with a proven ability to rapidly adapt to and utilise alternative delivery and service management tools (e.g. ServiceNow, Azure DevOps). Skilled in producing and presenting high-quality reporting and insight packs to support transparency and governance.
  • - **Communication skills** - Clear, empathetic, and effective communication across all levels, from technical teams to C-suite, with the ability to influence at the highest levels
  • - **Conflict resolution** - The ability to navigate complex disagreements constructively
  • - **Multitasking** – Skilled at managing multiple concurrent workstreams and priorities while maintaining quality, focus, and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
  • - **Team morale bolstering** – A supportive leader who fosters motivation, cohesion, and resilience, ensuring teams stay engaged and perform at their best even under pressure.
  • __**Desirable**__
  • - Public sector experience
  • - Consultancy experience
Benefits
  • - 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • - An additional day of paid leave for your birthday
  • - Monthly budget for you to spend on your wellbeing
  • - Annual Learning and Development budget
  • - Paid time off for life events
  • - Matched Employer Contributed Pension (5%)
  • - Life assurance based on 2 x your salary, increasing to 4 x upon 2 years' service
  • - Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
  • - Enhanced company sick pay
  • - Exciting calendar of Burendo social events and activities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
portfolio managementAgile methodologiesrisk managementdependency managementforecastingprioritisation
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillsconflict resolutionmultitaskingteam morale bolstering