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Transform

Senior Delivery Manager

Transform

Senior Delivery Manager working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver impactful solutions for clients. Leading complex projects and collaborating with teams and senior stakeholders.

Posted 7/15/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in Agile methodologies, leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver user-centric products and services while fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment. Skilled in strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring team members to achieve successful outcomes in complex sectors.

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Agile MethodologiesStakeholder EngagementTeam DevelopmentStrategic ThinkingContinuous Improvement

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Hard Skills
Agile PracticesProduct Development Life-CycleContinuous Delivery MethodsRisk IdentificationComplex Problem Solving
Soft Skills
CommunicationMentoringInfluencingTeam MotivationGrowth Mindset
Tools & Technologies
Delivery Management ToolkitCommunities of Practice
Industry Keywords
Public SectorUtilitiesGDSDigital-by-Default Service Standards

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver products and services that meet users’ needs
  • Helping teams organise and plan their work
  • Enable teams to communicate their plans clearly and deliver outcomes using agile practices
  • Work with teams and organisations to adopt an agile mindset or agile practices as appropriate
  • Identify and build the teams and resources needed to deliver client goals
  • Proactively identify and address risks, issues, dependencies, and blockers
  • Help influence strategic direction for an engagement
  • Promote a good working environment with high-performing teams who can enjoy working together
  • Develop, guide and coach an assigned team
  • Be a key member of our Delivery Management community, learning, sharing and applying skills and knowledge to improve
  • Support the development of the Delivery practices toolkit and processes

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience of working along the product development life-cycle with multi-disciplinary teams
  • Skilled in Agile methods, including continuous improvement and continuous delivery methods
  • Skilled in introducing and improving use of Agile in a pragmatic way
  • Experience delivering great outcomes in complex sectors at scale such as the public sector or utilities
  • Demonstrable experience in challenging senior stakeholders and influencing their mindset and ways of working
  • Skilled in thinking strategically about problems at scale with stakeholders and in the detail with delivery teams
  • Skilled in communication making complex information simple, and bringing people with you
  • Experience developing and mentoring team members including more junior delivery managers
  • Experience working with research, design, technical and data teams - helping set priorities, make key technical choices and identify risks
  • Experience being a part of, or contributing to successful communities of practice or excellence
  • A growth mindset
  • AI curious and ready to embrace opportunities
  • Knowledge of Government methods such as GDS and Digital-by-Default Service Standards

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days (note that 3 days are held for Christmas holidays)
  • Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday
  • Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions
  • Private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave
  • Cycle to work schemes
  • Gym & retail discounts
  • Regular social events/activities
  • A range of other benefits from our flexible benefits package