Delivery Director
Transparity
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Grow, stabilise, and mature the PMO, creating a centre of excellence for project delivery.
- Define, implement, and maintain standardised delivery processes, frameworks, and governance models across all accounts.
- Collaborate with technical Practices to design and embed repeatable, standardised delivery plans for packaged service offerings.
- Introduce and enforce repeatable methodologies, promoting continuous improvement.
- Oversee project financial and scope management to ensure predictable outcomes.
- Drive adoption of quality assurance practices including health checks, risk management, and audits.
- Lead PMO hiring strategies to expand and scale the delivery organisation.
- Manage the resource scheduling and allocation function for optimal utilisation.
- Partner with department leads to forecast demand and align staffing plans.
- Establish capacity planning models and maintain visibility of bottlenecks and requirements.
- Partner with Sales and Commercial teams to ensure projects are scoped, deliverable, and profitable.
- Participate in bid reviews, solution shaping, and proposal development.
- Contribute to statements of work, estimates, and engagement governance.
- Lead the creation of a PMO Apprentice Scheme to recruit and develop junior delivery talent.
- Work with People & Culture to design training materials and mentoring structures.
- Promote continuous learning and capability development across the delivery organisation.
- Act as senior delivery authority, reporting PMO performance and project health to the executive team.
- Build strong internal and client relationships to ensure alignment and successful outcomes.
- Champion a customer-centric, delivery-first culture.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading PMO or Delivery functions in a technology-led environment.
- Extensive experience delivering complex technical and business change programmes for enterprise customers, ideally with global systems integrators (GSIs).
- Demonstrated experience creating, transforming, or optimising PMO operations.
- Strong understanding of project and programme management methodologies.
- Excellent financial acumen and project forecasting skills.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience in building high-performing teams and developing early-career talent.
- Experience supporting sales cycles and shaping commercial propositions.
Benefits
- To be part of a Top 100 Best large Companies to work for
- Flexibility over where you work with our Winning from Anywhere® approach
- 25 days holiday
- Home working allowance paid monthly
- Winning from Anywhere® allowance to help your set up at home
- 24/7 GP at hand
- Immediate 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme
- We’ll support you when you’re not well with our Company sick pay scheme
- 4x base salary life assurance
- Private health insurance
- Enhanced parental pay and leave, supporting you with those precious life moments
- Access to the Perkbox platform to help make your money go further
- Cyclescheme
- Electric car scheme
- And many more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
project management methodologiesfinancial managementresource schedulingcapacity planningquality assurance practicesrisk managementproject forecastingPMO operationstechnical change programmescommercial propositions
Soft skills
leadershipstakeholder managementcollaborationcustomer-centric approachmentoringcontinuous improvementrelationship buildingteam developmentcommunicationstrategic planning