Senior Delivery Manager

Apollo, a Skyward Group company, is an innovation inspired insurance platform operating at Lloyd's of London, delivering data driven and creative solutions across a wide range of risks. Our name reflects our origins, inspired by one of our founding investors, Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. Since launch in 2009, we have grown into a diversified insurance group offering products across Property, Casualty, Marine, Energy, Transportation, Specialty and Reinsurance.

Your Role

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will play a key role in enabling successful delivery across Apollo's product and technology landscape. You will support one or more product squads or value streams, helping teams establish effective ways of working, manage delivery risks and dependencies, and continually improve their performance. Acting as a trusted partner to Product Owners, Technical Leads and business stakeholders, you will drive transparency, accountability and confidence in delivery outcomes.

What You'll Do

• Lead delivery across one or more product squads or value streams, partnering with Product Owners and Technical Leads to deliver agreed business outcomes.
• Support agile ways of working, facilitating planning, retrospectives, reviews and continuous improvement activities that help teams perform at their best.
• Build strong relationships across Product, Engineering and business teams, ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility of priorities, progress, risks and dependencies.
• Help establish and embed effective delivery governance, operating practices and planning frameworks that support predictable and sustainable delivery.
• Manage delivery risks, dependencies and blockers, driving resolution and escalation where required in a fast moving environment.
• Use delivery metrics and performance data to identify opportunities for improvement and support informed decision making.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of Apollo's delivery capability through knowledge sharing, mentoring and the adoption of consistent delivery standards.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience leading delivery within agile product and technology environments, with responsibility for driving successful outcomes across multiple squads, products or value streams.
• A strong understanding of agile delivery, product development and modern engineering practices, with experience coaching teams and supporting effective ways of working.
• The ability to build trusted relationships across Product, Engineering and business teams, creating alignment, transparency and confidence in delivery outcomes.
• Experience establishing, embedding or improving delivery governance, operating models and delivery frameworks, with the confidence to influence and challenge constructively at all levels.
• Strong communication, facilitation and leadership skills, with experience navigating delivery risks, dependencies and competing priorities in fast moving environments.
• Experience using delivery metrics and performance data to support decision making and continuous improvement.
• Experience working within insurance, financial services or other regulated environments would be beneficial.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe or equivalent certifications would also be beneficial.

Benefits

We offer a competitive and thoughtfully designed reward package that reflects the value of our people. This includes a fair and attractive salary, discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package - including 31 days' annual leave, a non contributory pension and private medical insurance.

Our commitment to inclusion

At Apollo, people are at the heart of everything we do. We are a diverse, growing team of empowered experts who bring collaboration, innovation and data driven thinking to every relationship and every risk. We believe diversity and inclusion go far beyond targets. They are essential to understanding the global communities we serve and to making better decisions.

Hybrid & flexible working

Flexible and hybrid working are fully embraced at Apollo. We do not believe in presenteeism. Instead, we trust our people to work in ways that allow them to perform at their best, balancing professional responsibilities with personal commitments.

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