Delivery Lead

Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand.

The Delivery Lead is responsible for orchestrating and enabling the successful delivery of complex technical change across one or more agile squads, ensuring alignment with business priorities, governance standards and organisational outcomes. The role provides coordination, governance and integration across teams while preserving agile ways of working.

• Leading and managing change initiatives across business areas and projects in a delivery lead capacity, utilising core PM and BA skills.
• Driving delivery outcomes from initiation to completion, without reliance on a separate Project Manager.
• Shaping and prioritising work in partnership with stakeholders and Product Owners.
• Developing and maintaining integrated delivery plans, including dependencies and milestones.
• Coordinating cross‑squad activity and managing delivery interdependencies.
• Partnering with stakeholders to embed change into business processes and operations.
• RAID management – managing risks, issues and quality across all initiatives.
• Governance and reporting to leadership and governance forums.
• Stakeholder management, alignment and coordination.
• Cross‑squad dependency and risk management.
• Supporting agile methodologies and adapting frameworks to project needs.
• Agile delivery enablement alongside Scrum Masters and Product Owners.
• Planning and execution readiness.
• Integrated delivery plans and milestone tracking.
• Eliciting and documenting business requirements and process improvements, as defined by the business and/or project.
• Ensuring requirements are clearly defined and owned.
• Working with BAs/SMEs to shape and validate requirements.
• Leading and facilitating meetings and workshops, producing clear documentation, including Business Requirement Documents, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Analyzing complex and large‑scale business and technical projects, including comprehensive reviews of end‑to‑end data and operating models.
• Supporting business users through UAT testing and obtaining sign‑off from key stakeholders.

• Demonstrable experience initiating, planning and delivering formal projects, ideally with budgets up to £5m.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a delivery lead or project management role in Financial Services.
• Minimum 2 years’ delivery experience in Corporate projects – Risk, Legal, HR, Audit where the candidate owned and delivered end‑to‑end projects.
• Successfully delivered complex change projects requiring changes to Corporate systems, ideally finance systems (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Service Now).
• Accreditation (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile PM).
• Practical knowledge of agile methodologies and tools.
• Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills.
• Extensive experience facilitating meetings and workshops.
• Expertise in eliciting, analysing, validating requirements and building partnerships with business and technology teams.
• Demonstrate strong application and solution knowledge.
• Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and managing change initiatives within complex organisations.
• Proven ability to gather and validate detailed business requirements and lead process improvements.
• Experience coordinating stakeholders, managing risks and delivering projects using agile and hybrid methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage leadership, teams and third‑party suppliers effectively.
• Commitment to continuous professional development, coaching and fostering an inclusive team environment.

• Strong stakeholder management and effective communication skills.
• Knowledge of Agile Practices.
• Ability to proactively identify opportunities for improvements and achieving efficiencies.
• Ability to manage competing demands and work across multiple projects.
• Strong organisational skills, with an ability for problem solving.
• Experience in leading and supporting more junior…