Delivery Manager

Job-:
Technology

Location:

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Schedule:

Full time Posted:
Delivery Manager Function:
Tech

Location:

Hybrid, London or Peterborough Curious about what’s next?

So are we. Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millions.

At Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI. We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes ry role here plays a part in driving our mission forward, and we create an environment where you can bring your authentic self, grow a truly characterful career, and see the direct impact of your work on the lives of our customers.

We’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you’ll fit right in.

We’d love you to be part of our journey.

As the Delivery Manager you will be responsible for leading and driving operational excellence and delivery performance across Mission teams by embedding Agile principles, optimising workflows, and enabling high-performing, outcome-driven teams. Accountable for aligning delivery execution with organisational strategy, ensuring business value is delivered reliably, transparently, and mpions continuous improvement, fosters cross-functional collaboration, and uses data-driven insights to increase delivery speed, predictability, and quality.

Utilising proactive risk management, removal of systemic blockers, and coaching teams to adopt best practices, creating an environment where teams can consistently achieve high performance and deliver measurable results.

Some of the great things you’ll be doing:
Delivery Execution & Agile Facilitation Accountable for end-to-end  delivery performance at the Mission level, ensuring outcomes are achieved to agreed timelines, quality standards and strategic priorities. Drive operational discipline by embedding delivery metrics into decision-making and ensuring clear visibility of progress, risk and value delivered

Lead Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and stakeholder reviews).Identify, resolve and prevent delivery blockers and optimise workflows to accelerate delivery speed and reduce waste working in collaboration with Portfolio Managers.

Champion delivery excellence through consistent performance monitoring, root cause analysis and implementation of improvements

Ensure cross-team coordination, managing dependencies with Product and Engineering teams.

Risk & Dependency Matters Own dependency management and proactively manage risks, escalating when necessary to ensure delivery is not impacted.

Work with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to resolve technical and business dependencies.

Ensure realistic scoping of work, avoiding over commitment while maintaining delivery momentum.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management Act as the accountable owner for delivery outcomes, dependency management, risks and data-driven reporting. Align with Product Managers to prioritise effectively and enable informed decision-making.

Partner closely with Delivery Enablement, Engineering Managers, and Product Leaders to ensure Mission delivery directly contributes to pillar-level strategy and organisational objectives, driving both short-term wins and long-term capability uplift.

Continuous Improvement & Agile Maturity Champion and scale Agile ways of working, embedding practices that increase adaptability, collaboration, and speed to value. Use delivery performance metrics (e.g., predictability, cycle time, throughput) to inform strategy, identify improvement…