Senior Delivery Manager

Senior Delivery Manager

6 month contract initially

£750 per day (Inside)

2 days on site per week in London

Skills & experience required bullet points

Significant experience leading complex digital delivery at Senior Delivery Manager level, ideally in a multi-supplier or managed-service environment.

Proven ability to mobilise delivery arrangements quickly and establish proportionate governance, reporting, controls and ways of working.

Strong supplier management and coordination skills, with experience aligning multiple organisations around shared priorities, outcomes and delivery plans.

Demonstrable experience managing cross-team dependencies, risks, issues, blockers, resourcing and delivery spend, with timely escalation where required.

Ability to provide clear, concise and evidence-based reporting to senior stakeholders, creating visibility of progress, constraints, decisions and financial position.

Strong leadership, facilitation and relationship-building skills, with the ability to create effective collaboration between supplier teams and civil service colleagues.

Sound judgement in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, balancing pace, delivery assurance and proportionate control.

Experience of knowledge transfer, capability handover and embedding sustainable delivery practices before exiting a time-limited engagement.

A strong understanding of agile and user-centred digital delivery, with the ability to adapt methods to the context rather than apply process mechanically.

Experience of working in government or another complex, regulated organisation is desirable
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed