Delivery Lead

Role Title: Delivery Lead

Duration: contract to run until 29/03/2027

Location: Sheffield. Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite

Rate: up to £495.88 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Delivery Lead to oversee the successful delivery of complex business and technology initiatives within a fast-paced enterprise environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading cross-functional teams, managing delivery roadmaps, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

This role requires a strong blend of leadership, stakeholder management, governance, and delivery expertise. The Delivery Lead will act as the key point of coordination between business stakeholders, technology teams, third-party suppliers, and senior leadership to ensure alignment of objectives and successful execution of strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of multiple projects and workstreams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans, roadmaps, milestones, and dependencies across complex programmes.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are implemented.
• Facilitate collaboration between business, technology, architecture, infrastructure, security, and operational teams.
• Drive effective governance and reporting processes, providing clear and accurate updates to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery teams adhere to agreed methodologies, standards, and best practices.
• Monitor project performance through key metrics and KPIs, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Manage resource allocation and capacity planning to ensure optimal utilisation of project teams.
• Support financial management activities, including budget tracking, forecasting, and cost control.
• Coordinate with external vendors and third-party suppliers to ensure successful delivery of contracted services.
• Lead project and programme steering meetings, workshops, and executive governance forums.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement across delivery teams.
• Ensure compliance with organisational policies, governance frameworks, risk requirements, and regulatory obligations.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working as a Delivery Lead, Programme Delivery Manager, Senior Project Manager, or similar role within a large enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of project and programme delivery methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Demonstrable experience managing large-scale technology and business transformation initiatives.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage and influence senior executives.
• Experience managing complex delivery dependencies across multiple teams and functions.
• Strong governance, risk management, and reporting experience.
• Experience overseeing project budgets, forecasting, financial tracking, and resource management.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and leadership skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a dynamic and fast-changing environment.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and organisational skills.

Desirable Experience

• Financial services or banking sector experience is highly desirable.
• Experience delivering regulatory, risk, cybersecurity, data, or digital transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of technology platforms, cloud services, infrastructure, and enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with IT service management and operational frameworks.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Relevant certifications such as Agile, Scrum Master, SAFe, PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, or equivalent

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!

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