Delivery Lead in Skipton

Overview

Delivery Lead role requiring experience in delivering business and technology change at scale.

The role focuses on influencing teams and stakeholders, raising delivery standards, and creating conditions for high-performing delivery across the organisation.

Hybrid working arrangement with office days and remote work.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business and technology change initiatives, ensuring outcomes align with strategic priorities.
• Apply the right delivery approach (Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid) based on context, complexity and business need.
• Create conditions for high-performing teams by removing blockers, improving flow and enabling effective decision making.
• Challenge existing delivery practices, identify opportunities for improvement and 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 and strong relationships to drive continuous improvement, influence decisions and accelerate outcomes.

Requirements

• 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 Dev Ops, Apptio Targetprocess or similar portfolio management tools is beneficial.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + progression to 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 balance commitments
• Private medical insurance, wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as Home and Tech vouchers

Location and work pattern: Hybrid, typically three days in the Skipton office and two days from home.

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