Lead Delivery Manager

London Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

In this role you will bridge customer needs, delivery teams and Valtech's commercial objectives to ensure the team delivers in line with agreements. You will coordinate across teams, manage risks, and maintain momentum on large digital projects. As Lead Delivery Manager, you act as the hub for Product Owners and Tech Leads, translating strategy into actionable plans. You will drive governance artefacts, reporting, and standardized processes, and you’ll engage with client stakeholders to align outcomes with customer value. You’ll join a multi-disciplinary agile delivery team in a culture focused on learning, inclusion and impact.

Pay / Benefits

Hybrid working
Career advancement with international mobility
Learning and development with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts

Responsibilities

Facilitate cross-team coordination and manage interdependencies
Drive delivery cadence and maintain momentum across teams
Act as the central point of coordination for Product Owners and Tech Leads
Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and cross-stream impacts
Create and maintain programme-level artefacts (integrated plans, RAIDD logs, resourcing forecasts, progress reporting)
Align outputs to strategic goals set by the Programme governance and clients
Facilitate workshops for cross-stream planning and critical path mapping
Consolidate stream-level reporting into a coherent executive summary
Enforce standardised processes across teams (quality gates, documentation, reporting)
Support communications between client stakeholders and delivery teams

Key requirements

Proven experience managing multiple teams to meet customer needs
Proven experience in managing large projects, preferably with relevant project management certification
Proven experience in the management of project budgets
Ability to organize the teams and the work to hit and exceed required timescales
Experience in leading and inspiring teams to reach a shared vision
Ability to communicate at all levels; in particular, senior clients, project stakeholders, and teams
Champion agile methodologies, design and support changes of team structures, and help embed ways of working e.g data driven decision making
Ability to establish appropriate project management processes and artifacts
Ability to connect work done by the team to customer value
Ability to nurture constructive criticism to drive focus and continuous improvement
An eye for detail with the ability to step back and consider the bigger picture
Advanced English level