Technical Delivery Manager/Product Manager- Defence Programme

Overview

As Technical Delivery Manager, you will lead a portfolio of interdependent digital and data workstreams on a high-profile Defence programme. You’ll align projects to deliver usable, sustainable outcomes for the MOD and its partners, shaping priorities and driving adoption of digital solutions. You’ll work with senior stakeholders, architects and delivery teams to streamline governance, delivery and continuous improvement. This role combines defence insight with digital transformation leadership to realise programme benefits in a complex, political environment.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• inclusive environment
• opportunity to develop leadership and digital delivery capabilities
• global professional services context

Responsibilities

• Provide delivery leadership across multiple projects and workstreams with a coherent view of scope, priorities, dependencies, resources and outcomes
• Coordinate capturing and prioritising business and user requirements across MOD
• Translate complex needs into deliverable digital, data and reporting solutions with cross-functional teams
• Plan and deliver digital transformation, software development, implementation and change adoption from discovery to operation
• Establish delivery roadmaps, measurable outcomes, and benefit metrics to evidence progress
• Drive user adoption and continuous improvement to embed capabilities beyond initial release
• Build trusted relationships with senior MOD stakeholders and delivery partners to align priorities
• Provide clear, evidence-based advice to senior decision-makers on delivery issues and risks
• Lead programme governance and change management, owning risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies
• Coordinate with wider leadership and external partners to resolve constraints and focus on shared outcomes
• Promote data governance, quality, traceability and security across programme data and reporting
• Provide servant leadership to multidisciplinary teams and remove blockers
• Coach and mentor colleagues to develop a sustainable Digital Delivery capability
• Support client relationship development and contribute to proposals, mobilisation and growth
• Note: role requires travel to Defence sites and regular client-site attendance in London

Key requirements

• Demonstrable experience leading complex digital transformation delivery across multiple interdependent projects/workstreams
• Ability to operate across project, programme and portfolio levels with integrated plans
• Strong understanding of digital transformation, software development, service transition and change
• Defence experience at Joint/Tri-Service/MOD Head Office or defence prime environments
• Proven ability to engage and advise senior stakeholders in politically sensitive settings
• Experience eliciting and translating complex requirements into digital/data/reporting solutions
• Experience defining and managing benefits, metrics and performance reporting
• Experience governance and management of risks, issues, dependencies and change control
• Practical data governance experience including ownership, quality, lineage, access, security
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams with multiple suppliers toward shared outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communication, capable of simplifying complex topics
• Collaborative, accountable leadership with coaching and development experience
• Experience with Agile, product-led or hybrid delivery in regulated environments

• collaborative
• communication
• leadership
• digital transformation
• software development
• data governance

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