Jr. Delivery Manager in Reading

Hi All,

This role is ideal for candidates looking to develop their delivery management expertise within Defence Digital.

Jr. Delivery Manager

Type Perm

Model Hybrid

SC candidates required

2 days Travel to client office

Responsibilities

Scheduling and Dependencies Support:

• Assist in maintaining and updating project schedules, milestone tracking, and timelines.
• Support the identification, monitoring, and management of project and programme dependencies.
• Provide status updates to senior delivery managers and programme stakeholders, ensuring transparency and accuracy.
• Support integration with other project management disciplines, including risk, cost, and configuration management.

Benefits Management:

• Assist in tracking expected project benefits, ensuring alignment with programme objectives.
• Maintain benefit registers and provide regular reporting to enable senior decision-making.
• Support analysis of changes or delays that may impact benefits realisation.

Competition and Approvals Support:

• Provide administrative and coordination support for procurement activities, including Invitations to Negotiate (ITN) and other competitive processes.
• Support the preparation of documentation, assessment of options, and collation of approvals‑related artefacts.
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure timely submission, review, and approval of changes or procurement actions.
• Maintain records of decisions, change requests, and competition outcomes for audit and traceability.

Stakeholder Coordination:

• Work collaboratively with project, programme, and portfolio teams to ensure smooth delivery and effective communication.
• Provide status updates, dashboards, and reports to senior delivery managers and governance boards.
• Escalate issues, risks, or conflicts that could impact schedule, dependencies, benefits, or approvals.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities to improve delivery processes, tools, and reporting.
• Support knowledge sharing and embedding of best practice across project and programme teams.

Requirements

Essential:

• Some experience in project or programme support, ideally in Defence or government environments.
• Familiarity with project management processes, scheduling, and dependency tracking.
• Basic understanding of benefits management and programme‑level reporting.
• Ability to coordinate and support procurement/competition activities.
• Strong organisational, analytical, and communication skills.
• Able to work effectively across multiple stakeholders and teams.

Our Leadership Standards

Leading inclusively and safely: Build trust through honesty and integrity.

Owning outcomes: Make decisions that benefit the broader organization.

Delivering for the customer: Execute brilliantly on priorities that add value.

Commercially savvy: Bring strong commercial focus and external perspective.

Growth mindset: Identify opportunities for growth for yourself and the organization.

Building for the future: Create diverse, future‑ready teams where everyone can thrive.

Why Join Us?

We value diversity and inclusion and believe in making a positive impact.

Flexible working options: job share, reduced hours, or other arrangements.

If you don’t meet every requirement, please apply anyway—we welcome diverse experiences.

Be part of a team that fosters innovation and provides opportunities to be your best.

Regards

Chaya