Principal Agile Delivery Manager

About The Role

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for a Principal Delivery Manager to support our mission. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.

As a Principal Delivery Manager, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team combining data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do.

You will act as a Principal Consultant to deliver Delivery Management services to our clients. You will be a recognised leader in the agile delivery world, with deep expertise in managing large-scale, high-stakes programs. You will shape the strategic direction for delivery across major accounts, ensuring that we design and deliver services that work for people while driving organisational change at the highest level.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. The Principal Delivery Manager will be a key player and strategic leader in this.

[Please note we are looking for candidates who are looking for growth at the Principal level; therefore, the advertised salary band represents the entry point for this level, allowing for clear progression within the role.]

• Take the lead in investigating major delivery and organisational challenges, defining the long-term roadmap for how large-scale programs are executed.
• Oversee the health and performance of delivery across a portfolio of projects, finding ways to transform business operations through superior agile logic and lean processes.
• Lead high-level workshops with executive stakeholders to align on strategic delivery goals, funding models, and organisational transformation roadmaps.
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with our most critical clients, identifying potential risks and strategic delivery opportunities before they arise.
• Directly manage, advise, and lead other Delivery Managers while driving the growth and excellence of the Hippo Delivery profession.
• Lead the strategy for hiring new delivery talent, defining what "great" looks like for Hippo and chairing interview panels for the discipline.

• Expert-level experience in seeing the big picture and guiding how large, complex organisations handle delivery-led change and digital transformation.
• Proven track record of using delivery data, performance metrics, and research insights to influence the strategic decisions of top-level executive leaders.
• Extensive experience guiding the best ways to define and document delivery requirements, governance, and reporting at a high level, both within Hippo and the wider industry.
• Recognised expertise in promoting user-centered delivery and demonstrating the strategic value that delivery professionals bring to organizational efficiency and pace.
• Expert experience in leading delivery process improvements and documenting complex information and dependency flows across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery work based on long-term client needs, ensuring our solutions fit their…