Senior Director, Global Delivery Services

Elite Technology

Senior Director leading global delivery operations across EMEA and APAC at Elite Technology. Ensuring consistent execution, operational excellence, and successful customer outcomes.

Posted 6/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide strategic leadership and governance for all delivery operations across the UK, EMEA, and APAC regions, ensuring consistent methodologies, quality standards, resource utilization, and successful customer outcomes.
Lead and develop a global delivery organization, including Directors, Managers, Project Managers, and Consultants, with responsibility for performance management, workforce planning, succession planning, employee development, and overall team effectiveness.
Establish and maintain delivery governance frameworks, monitoring project health, risks, escalations, financial performance, delivery metrics, and operational effectiveness to drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
Partner closely with Sales and Customer Success teams to support pre-sales activities, delivery scoping, implementation planning, customer adoption, renewals, and expansion opportunities.
Serve as the senior escalation point for complex, high-risk, or strategic customer engagements, ensuring timely resolution and successful delivery outcomes.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Technology, Customer Support, and Customer Success teams to enhance the customer experience, influence product direction, and ensure seamless delivery, go-live, and post-implementation support.
Drive strategic initiatives that improve customer satisfaction, operational efficiency, delivery scalability, time-to-value, and adoption of new tools, processes, and methodologies.
Act as a key member of both the Global Delivery Services Leadership Team and UK Leadership Team, contributing to organizational strategy, regional execution, culture, employee engagement, and business growth.
Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership, customers, and strategic partners, ensuring alignment on business objectives and delivery priorities.
Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Technology, related discipline or equivalent experience.
12+ years of experience in global delivery, professional services, or SaaS implementation environments.
Proven leadership experience managing multi-layered, geographically distributed teams.
Strong expertise in project/program management, delivery governance, and operational performance management.
Experience working cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Support, Product, and Engineering teams.
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills at senior levels.
Demonstrated ability to drive strategic initiatives and operational improvements in a complex, global organisation.
Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
Experience within legal technology, professional services, or financial systems environments is highly desirable.
Experience with Elite software solutions and legal industry operations is strongly preferred.
Ability to travel up 25–50% as business needs require.
Role requires the following physical capacity: Sedentary: primarily desk/computer work.
Must be legally authorized to work in United Kingdom; Elite does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage (Health, Dental, Vision)
Retirement Savings Plan with an Employer Contribution
Professional Development Opportunities
Tuition Reimbursement
Parental Leave
Time Off
Wellness Initiatives
Employee Assistance Program
Generous Global Parental Leave
Calm, free premium subscription
Employee Discount Program

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementdelivery governanceoperational performance managementdata-driven decision makingstrategic initiativescustomer adoptionworkforce planningemployee developmentfinancial performancedelivery metrics

Soft Skills

leadershipstakeholder managementcommunicationinfluencingteam effectivenesscross-functional collaborationrelationship buildingperformance managementorganizational strategyemployee engagement

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in BusinessBachelor's Degree in Technologyrelated discipline