Delivery Manager

Overview

In this role you drive end-to-end delivery across IT, infrastructure, operations, and InfoSec to translate strategic goals into shipped value. You serve as the accountable owner of “how” and “when” outcomes are realised, leading cross-team collaboration to align goals and monitor progress. You’ll champion continuous improvement and refine delivery frameworks to boost speed, quality, and efficiency. This opportunity suits a proactive leader who shapes execution at scale within the energy sector and a dynamic, change-ready culture.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive end-to-end delivery plans across multiple domains
• Align diverse teams to shared goals and map work to final outcomes
• Lead OKR setting, plan execution, and progression to full realisation with corrective actions as needed
• Drive continuous improvement and enhance developer and employee experience
• Refine delivery framework to remove friction, increase speed and improve quality
• Foster a culture of continuous delivery, innovation, and efficiency
• Identify, visualise, and mitigate cross-team risks and dependencies threatening timelines
• Own forecasting for time and cost, integrating estimation methodologies and constraints
• Communicate project status, costs, and timelines to leadership and stakeholders
• Facilitate reporting that bridges technical progress with business expectations

Key requirements

• 3–5 years in agile delivery, with experience managing large-scale, complex projects
• Expert-level knowledge of agile and lean principles; proven Kanban scaling experience (Portfolio Kanban)
• Exceptional senior stakeholder management and influencing skills at a strategic level
• Strong commercial and financial acumen; experience managing multi-million-pound budgets (5m+)
• Deep understanding of energy industry landscape (regulatory, commercial, technological trends)
• Experience managing IT, Infrastructure, and InfoSec projects and leading internal initiatives
• Strategic, outcome-focused mindset translating business objectives into delivery plans
• Advanced agile certifications (e.g., KCP, KMP) are highly desirable

• natural leadership and ability to inspire diverse teams
• resilience and calm under pressure in ambiguous environments
• systems thinker with ability to see the big picture
• Agile and Lean principles
• Kanban and Portfolio Kanban
• Risk and dependency management

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