Principal Delivery Manager

Principal Delivery Manager – Large-Scale Digital Programmes

Remote with UK site visits as required

A leading UK digital consultancy is seeking an experienced Principal Delivery Manager to take ownership of multi-year transformation programmes across enterprise clients. This is a senior delivery leadership role overseeing multiple workstreams, complex stakeholder environments, and blended delivery teams (onshore/offshore).

You will be the political operator, escalation point, and programme owner—responsible for setting delivery direction, governing multiple streams of work, resetting failing projects when required, and ensuring outcomes land on time, on budget, and to a high standard.

This position also includes line management responsibility for a small team of Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters.

What you will lead

• Creating the environment for programme success across several parallel workstreams
• Full programme ownership: scope, governance, milestones, risks, budgets
• Running well-governed transformation, Dynamics 365, bespoke development and digital projects
• Managing senior client stakeholders and reporting directly into the consultancy’s leadership team
• Establishing and operating programme governance frameworks
• Working with both onshore and offshore engineering/implementation teams
• Managing budgets, time tracking, commercial change control and upsell
• Turning ambiguous requirements into structured, deliverable plans
• Managing agile delivery teams (directly and via Delivery Managers / Scrum Masters)
• Resetting and recovering projects that have hit delivery issues
• Providing pastoral care, coaching and performance management to junior delivery leads

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience owning complex digital or business transformation programmes
• Ability to navigate political environments and influence senior stakeholders
• Strong commercial awareness: budgets, forecasting, burn, change control, upsell
• Someone who thrives with autonomy, takes accountability, and is not afraid of messy programmes
• Calm escalation handling with a track record of steering failing workstreams back on course
• Comfortable leading distributed teams, including offshore delivery functions
• Obsessive attention to detail without losing sight of strategic objectives
• Able to work flexibly when deadlines demand it

If you are a seasoned Programme/Delivery Leader who can bring order, governance and authority to multi-stream digital delivery environments, please apply for an initial discussion.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Project Management and Consulting

Industries

• IT Services
• IT Consulting
• IT System Testing and Evaluation