Delivery Lead

Overview

Delivery Lead role requiring experience in delivering business and technology change  role focuses on influencing teams and stakeholders, raising delivery standards, and creating conditions for high-performing delivery across the organisation. Hybrid working arrangement with office days and remote work.

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business and technology change initiatives, ensuring outcomes align with strategic priorities.
• Apply the right delivery approach (Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid) based on context, complexity and business need.
• Create conditions for high-performing teams by removing blockers, improving flow and enabling effective decision making.
• Challenge existing delivery practices, identify opportunities for improvement and raise delivery standards across the organisation.
• Coach and support teams, Product Owners and stakeholders to improve delivery maturity and ways of working.
• Manage cross-functional risks, dependencies and stakeholder engagement across business and technology teams.
• Use delivery metrics and strong relationships to drive continuous improvement, influence decisions and accelerate outcomes.

• Proven experience delivering complex business and technology change in a large or complex organisation.
• A track record of improving delivery capability, team effectiveness and ways of working.
• Strong leadership, facilitation, coaching and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and constructively challenge at all levels.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Lean and traditional delivery approaches, with the ability to apply them effectively.
• Experience working within Agile Release Trains and supporting PI Planning activities.
• Experience using delivery metrics and data to improve performance, decision making and outcomes.
• Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops, Apptio Target process or similar portfolio management tools is beneficial.

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + progression to 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to balance commitments
• Private medical insurance, wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as Home and Tech vouchers

Location and work pattern:
Hybrid, typically three days in the Skipton office and two days from home.