Senior Delivery Manager

Head of Delivery (Founding Leader)

London (Hybrid) – Permanent – Senior Leadership.

We\’re looking for a bold, inspiring founding Head of Delivery to build and lead our delivery capability from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to shape how an organisation works—its culture, rituals, pace, and ability to innovate.

What You’ll Do

• Build and embed delivery governance that creates portfolio-level visibility and supports empowerment, not red tape.
• Partner with Product Leads to translate OKRs into quarterly delivery plans rooted in customer and business outcomes.
• Own and run quarterly governance, ensuring stakeholders are informed, aligned, and never surprised.
• Coach and line‑manage Delivery & Business Change Managers, building capability, confidence, and career pathways.
• Anticipate and manage cross‑squad dependencies, surfacing risks early and coordinating decisions.
• Champion a modern, product‑led culture centred on collaboration, clarity, learning, and accountability.
• Represent delivery at senior forums, telling the portfolio story in a way that is insightful, transparent, and trusted.

Your Impact

• Delivery Managers are supported, confident, and performing at their best.
• Quarterly governance runs smoothly with clear links to OKRs and value outcomes.
• Delivery grows into a respected, trusted, and enabling capability.
• Teams feel delivery practices accelerate outcomes, not constrain them.
• A transparent, outcome‑focused delivery culture takes root across the organisation.
• Delivery becomes recognised as a driver of product value and cultural transformation.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience as a Delivery Lead in a corporate, multi‑team environment.
• Proven ability to embed governance models without slowing agility or empowerment.
• Strong people leadership: coaching, line management, and talent development.
• Skilled at partnering with senior stakeholders—especially Product Leads and Execs.
• Confidence and capability to be the first hire and shape culture and capability from day one.
• Pragmatic, structured, and influential, able to lead through clarity, trust, and inspiration.

Interested?

If you want to shape the foundations of our delivery capability and help define a new way of working for the organisation, we\’d love to hear from you.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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