Delivery Lead in Skipton

Hours

35 hours per week, Hybrid

Closing Date

Fri, 24 Jul 2026

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Delivery Lead who can bring fresh thinking, challenge existing ways of working and help us continue to strengthen our delivery capability.

This role is about more than delivering change. We’re looking for someone who can influence teams and stakeholders, raise standards and help create the conditions for high‑performing delivery across the organisation.

If you enjoy solving complex problems, enabling teams to succeed and driving continuous improvement, we’d love to hear from you.

We work in a hybrid way, balancing flexibility with collaboration. For this role, you’ll typically spend three days a week in our Skipton office, with the remaining two days working from home.

Responsibilities

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of business and technology change initiatives, ensuring outcomes remain aligned to strategic priorities.
• Apply the right delivery approach, including Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid, based on context, complexity and business need.
• Create the conditions for high‑performing teams by removing blockers, improving flow and enabling effective decision making.
• Challenge existing delivery practices, identify improvement opportunities and help raise delivery standards across the organisation.
• Coach and support teams, Product Owners and stakeholders to improve delivery maturity and ways of working.
• Manage cross‑functional risks, dependencies and stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams.
• Use delivery metrics, insight and strong relationships to drive continuous improvement, influence decisions and accelerate outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex business and technology change in a large or complex organisation.
• A track record of improving delivery capability, team effectiveness and ways of working.
• Strong leadership, facilitation, coaching and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and constructively challenge at all levels.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Lean and traditional delivery approaches, with the ability to apply them effectively.
• Experience working within Agile Release Trains and supporting PI Planning activities.
• Experience using delivery metrics and data to improve performance, decision making and outcomes.
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps, Apptio Targetprocess or similar portfolio management tools would be beneficial.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle‑to‑work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA