Permanent Delivery Manager in Peterborough

Job-ID: 100376Category: TechnologyLocation: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomSchedule: Full timePosted: 2026-10-16Delivery ManagerFunction: Tech Location: Hybrid, London or PeterboroughCurious about what’s next?Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millions.At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI. We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes at pace. As the Delivery Manager you will be responsible for leading and driving operational excellence and delivery performance across Mission teams by embedding Agile principles, optimising workflows, and enabling high-performing, outcome-driven teams. Champions continuous improvement, fosters cross-functional collaboration, and uses data-driven insights to increase delivery speed, predictability, and quality. Utilising proactive risk management, removal of systemic blockers, and coaching teams to adopt best practices, creating an environment where teams can consistently achieve high performance and deliver measurable results.Delivery Execution & Agile FacilitationAccountable for end-to-end delivery performance at the Mission level, ensuring outcomes are achieved to agreed timelines, quality standards and strategic priorities. Drive operational discipline by embedding delivery metrics into decision-making and ensuring clear visibility of progress, risk and value deliveredLead Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and stakeholder reviews).Identify, resolve and prevent delivery blockers and optimise workflows to accelerate delivery speed and reduce waste working in collaboration with Portfolio Managers.Champion delivery excellence through consistent performance monitoring, root cause analysis and implementation of improvementsEnsure cross-team coordination, managing dependencies with Product and Engineering teams.Risk & Dependency MattersOwn dependency management and proactively manage risks, escalating when necessary to ensure delivery is not impacted.Ensure realistic scoping of work, avoiding overcommitment while maintaining delivery momentum.Collaboration & Stakeholder ManagementAct as the accountable owner for delivery outcomes, dependency management, risks and data-driven reporting. Partner closely with Delivery Enablement, Engineering Managers, and Product Leaders to ensure Mission delivery directly contributes to pillar-level strategy and organisational objectives, driving both short-term wins and long-term capability uplift.Continuous Improvement & Agile MaturityChampion and scale Agile ways of working, embedding practices that increase adaptability, collaboration, and speed to value. Use delivery performance metrics (e.g., predictability, cycle time, throughput) to inform strategy, identify improvement opportunities, and track measurable gains in delivery efficiency and quality.Lead high-impact retrospectives and performance reviews that result in clear, measurable improvement actions.Working Relationships with Engineering ManagersEngineering Managers focus on technical excellence and people management. Technology Delivery Managers focus on execution efficiency and Agile facilitation. System architecture and quality standards (owned by Engineering teams)What we’d like to see from you:Expert Level (Must-Have) - Delivery Management in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), Risk dependency management at the mission level. Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills. Good Level (Preferred) - Agile process optimization & continuous improvement. Data-driven decision-making using delivery metrics (e.g., Basic Level (Nice-to-Have) - Understanding of engineering best practices (CI/CD, DevOps, automation, AI-Augmented workflows). Familiarity with software development lifecycles and system architecture (but not responsible).We’re a business built for pace and performance. If you’re ready to stretch yourself, raise the bar, and grow with a team that’s serious about performance, innovation, and purpose, we’d love to hear from you.