Lead Delivery Manager

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

• Effective communication across levels
• Leadership and inspirational mindset
• Stakeholder management
• Collaborative problem-solving
• Strategic thinking with attention to detail

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