At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead high-impact platform delivery projects and manage project teams effectively.
- Company: Major technology and engineering organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, DV bonus, excellent benefits, and hybrid working.
- Other info: Opportunity for professional development and mentoring junior staff.
- Why this job: Shape governance and delivery capability in a complex environment while developing your skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and strong stakeholder management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 70000 £ per year.
Are you an experienced Delivery Manager looking to lead high-impact platform delivery for a major technology and engineering organisation?
The Role
As Delivery Manager, you'll report into a Portfolio Manager and take responsibility for the successful delivery of projects and workstreams within a platforms team. You'll plan, mobilise, manage and control delivery in line with client expectations, contractual obligations and quality standards, leading project teams, coordinating stakeholders, and keeping delivery on track from mobilisation through to completion. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives on managing competing priorities, evaluating risk, and driving corrective action to protect delivery performance, while also mentoring and developing less experienced colleagues.
What You'll Be Doing
- Plan, manage and deliver assigned projects/workstreams against agreed scope, schedule, cost, quality and governance requirements
- Coordinate project teams and resources, ensuring roles, priorities and dependencies are clearly understood
- Monitor progress, manage risks/issues/dependencies/change control, and take corrective action to protect delivery
- Own project reporting, documentation, forecasts, dashboards and governance packs
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, suppliers, subcontractors and internal stakeholders
- Lead project meetings, reviews and governance forums, capturing and progressing actions and escalations
- Ensure delivery activity complies with organisational standards and ways of working
- Support mobilisation and continuous improvement, sharing delivery expertise and lessons learned
- Provide day-to-day direction and support to project teams and junior staff
What We’re Looking For
Essential:
- Solid working knowledge of project management principles, governance, lifecycle models, planning, budgeting, risk/issue management, change control, reporting and quality
- Proven experience leading infrastructure and/or platform deliveries, with accountability for time, cost, scope and quality
- Strong planning, organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Confident written and verbal communicator, able to tailor messaging across audiences
- Highly competent in Microsoft Office, JIRA and Confluence
- Experience working within a governed, quality-driven or highly technical delivery environment
Desirable:
- Practitioner-level qualification: APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, AgilePM Practitioner, or equivalent
- Membership of a recognised professional body (e.g. APM) or evidence of ongoing CPD in project delivery
Why Apply
This role offers the chance to lead meaningful delivery within a large-scale, technically complex environment, with genuine scope to shape governance, ways of working and delivery capability - plus support for your own professional development along the way.
Project Delivery Manager in Cheltenham employer: Forwardrole
Forwardrole is an exceptional employer that prioritises innovation and collaboration within the engineering consultancy space, particularly in the critical field of National Security. With a hybrid work model across vibrant locations like Gloucestershire, Manchester, and London, employees benefit from a supportive work culture that fosters professional growth and offers competitive salaries, bonuses, and comprehensive benefits. Joining Forwardrole means being part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to secure software delivery, where your contributions directly impact national safety and security.
