Senior Delivery Manager

Company: Version 1
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you lead and optimise agile delivery to drive our product-centric mission. You will align cross-functional teams, embed agile practices, and sustain a culture of learning and improvement. You’ll manage delivery, risk, and stakeholder expectations while enabling high-value products. The opportunity combines leadership, collaboration, and impact across globally distributed teams, advancing our transformation and customer-focused goals.

Pay / Benefits

  • Quarterly profit share scheme
  • Flexible/remote working
  • Pension and private healthcare
  • Life assurance and financial advice
  • Employee wellbeing programs (gym discounts, mindfulness)
  • Generous holiday and parental leave

Responsibilities

  • Embed a product-centric, agile delivery culture to enable rapid product delivery
  • Facilitate cross-team communication, coordination and alignment with stakeholders
  • Design and embed Agile delivery frameworks and continuously improve
  • Build an inclusive, high-performing team delivering innovative products
  • Optimise team culture, performance and health, with innovative ways-of-working
  • Establish and mature delivery management processes including roadmap and release coordination
  • Manage resource planning, allocation and risk mitigation
  • Support product and technology leads in demand and delivery
  • Drive continuous improvement and cross-team collaboration
  • Lead delivery on time, within budget and quality
  • Stakeholder engagement and management, including weekly delivery overview
  • Perform standard Delivery Manager duties: scope, detailed plan, RAID, governance, docs and risk management

Key requirements

  • Tertiary qualification in technology, business, humanities, or engineering
  • Demonstrable experience in Agile Delivery or Programme Management
  • Experience with multiple agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean) and tools (Jira, Trello)
  • Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management
  • Ability to adapt delivery approaches to client context and team needs
  • Leadership with servant leadership style and ability to motivate diverse teams
  • Experience with globally dispersed teams
  • Strong communication skills (listening, verbal and written) and comfortable handling difficult conversations
  • Commercial mindset and ability to drive culture change
  • Experience with Pre-Sales and contributions to proposals
  • Experience delivering software development, data or cloud migration projects
  • Planning and execution, feasibility assessment, risk management, dependencies
  • Collaborative planning with clients to meet timeframes
  • Relationship-building
  • Servant leadership
  • Communication
  • Jira
  • Trello
  • Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, Lean)

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Posted: October 16th, 2026