Delivery Lead

Delivery Lead
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 PA Plus up to 10% Performance Bonus and Benefits
Location: Hybrid - WFH and 1 visit to either the Manchester, Coventry, Milton Keynes or London Office very week or every 2 weeks
Please note: we only accept applications from candidates who already have the right to work in the UK.

We are currently recruiting for several Delivery Leads for one of the UK’s Largest retailers, to own the full life cycle for your product or programme, ensuring that projects are delivered within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality.

In your new role 

• You’ll play a leading role on your programmes, co-ordinating delivery across a number of engineering teams in order to realise key business outcomes
• You’ll partner with engineering teams and key stakeholders to deliver new products or complex changes, utilising appropriate delivery methodology, including agile ways of working
• Be a partner to Procurement and Supplier Management, leading the supplier selection processes where products require significant third-party involvement and being accountable for establishing and managing the ongoing relationship with suppliers
• Plan significant deployments across a number of products, ensuring relevant dependencies are identified and managed
• Create and maintain roll-out schedules, track progress, always ensuring key stakeholders are kept up-to-date and risks & issues are appropriately managed
• Spot and surface key risks and issues early, building an effective approach to mitigation, securing support of stakeholders as and when necessary
• Coach others to help them understand the rationale for a technical approach, surfacing and dealing with ambiguity and conflicting demands
• Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that learning is fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery
• Actively contribute to the Delivery Practice, supporting the creation and implementation of a career framework and community

• You’ll have demonstrable experience of delivering technical programmes in an agile and product environment, with significant third party or deployment complexities
• An in-depth understanding of agile values, principles, practices and associated approaches as they relate to delivery management
• Familiar with key techniques and frameworks for structuring programmes, including effective planning, dependency identification and management, risk and issue management
• An in-depth understanding of Tech Operating Framework and Technology Principles, and awareness of external factor, including industry best practice
• Able to participate in technical detail, where needed, showing an understand of the technical landscape and can describe technical choices and trade-offs to different stakeholders within and outside of Tech
• Matrix leadership skills with the ability to apply these at scale
• Always looking to deliver the best outcome for your new company

• Up to 10% Performance Bonus
• Colleague discount across multiple brands
• Holiday allowance
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more