Delivery Governance & Frameworks Lead

Delivery Governance & Frameworks Lead - Contract Role

London, United Kingdom

We are seeking an experienced governance and frameworks specialist to help shape the delivery practice framework for Asset Management Platforms. This is not a delivery management role. It is focused on designing and embedding the governance models, change frameworks, standards and core artefacts that enable delivery teams to operate consistently, clearly and effectively at scale.

The successful candidate will have built practice-level governance in a complex environment, whether within an enterprise PMO that evolved beyond reporting, or in a consultancy or financial services organisation where change governance and delivery standards were developed from the ground up. Fluency across delivery methodologies is essential. The frameworks produced must work across structured programme governance, iterative delivery cadences and hybrid approaches without imposing a single way of working.

This role also works across disciplines. The governance and frameworks it creates must support a coherent end-to-end delivery lifecycle across Asset Management Platforms, aligning standards, artefacts and governance touchpoints across Delivery Management, Analysis & Business Architecture, and Engineering & Enterprise Architecture from demand through to value realisation.

We are a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we have been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What does not change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

• Co‑design and implement a multi‑tiered governance model covering portfolio, programme and team‑level oversight, including decision rights, escalation pathways and stage gate criteria
• Ensure AMP delivery governance connects coherently to Group‑level and business change governance, resolving boundary ambiguity and removing unnecessary hierarchy
• Build governance that operates consistently across all delivery contexts without enforcing a single methodology
• Work across all three practices to align governance touchpoints across the full delivery lifecycle, from demand through to value realisation
• Develop the delivery standards baseline through practitioner working groups, classifying standards as mandatory, recommended or optional
• Create and maintain core delivery artefacts: initiation documents, risk and dependency frameworks, reporting templates and governance pack formats
• Own the standards lifecycle – introduction, adoption, review and retirement
• Design the adoption measurement approach, tracking which standards are in active use and where gaps remain
• Embed standards through the community of practice, onboarding and peer review alongside the Enterprise Delivery Leads
• Maintain practice boundaries – clarifying what the delivery practice owns, what sits with domains and what is shared. Keep boundaries current and agreed
• Design the demand management front door, ensuring new work is visible to leadership to aid assessment and prioritisation across the portfolio
• Support the development of delivery health metrics that feed portfolio intelligence
• Design escalation pathways and stage gate processes that function systematically
• Drive simplification – actively reducing artefacts, governance forums and unnecessary oversight load on delivery teams

• Significant experience designing and implementing enterprise change governance frameworks within a large, complex organisation – financial services or regulated environment preferred
• Track record building delivery standards that were genuinely adopted by delivery teams, not solely published
• Fluency across delivery methodologies and an understanding of how governance adapts across structured, iterative, scaled and hybrid approaches
• Experience working within or alongside an enterprise PMO that has matured beyond status reporting into…