Agile Delivery Manager

Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE
, UK

Posted Friday 29 May 2026 at 5:00 am

Job Title: Agile Delivery Manager

Department: Technology

Location: Sheffield, London or Talbot Green

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contract Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £95,000 per annum

At Tes we are on a mission to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by delivering EdTech solutions that give educators the tools to succeed. From safeguarding and compliance to staff and pupil management, our innovative and flexible software and services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.

With more than 13 million educators in our community, combined with our working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries, we have been making a difference for over 100 years.

We are seeking a strategic and delivery-focused Agile Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of complex digital initiatives across multiple teams and value streams. The Agile Delivery Manager is accountable for establishing effective delivery governance, enabling scaled Agile ways of working, driving predictable outcomes, and ensuring alignment between product, engineering, and business priorities. This role leads enterprise-level risk and dependency management, strengthens delivery capability, and advances Dev Ops and continuous improvement practices to support sustainable, high-quality delivery.

• Lead delivery across multiple teams, programmes, and value streams
  , ensuring alignment to organisational priorities, customer outcomes, and strategic roadmaps.
• Support the VP of Delivery in portfolio-level delivery governance including planning cadences, decision forums, dependency management, escalation paths, and clear standards for delivery reporting and release management.
• Set and oversee enterprise risk management practices by defining risk tolerances, ensuring effective identification and analysis of risks, guiding mitigation strategies, and maintaining continuous monitoring across delivery portfolios.
• Drive scaled Agile delivery by embedding fit-for-purpose frameworks, improving flow across teams, and ensuring delivery practices support adaptability, transparency, and business value.
• Partner with senior and executive stakeholders to provide transparent portfolio reporting, support prioritisation decisions, and align delivery investment with business outcomes.
• Champion enterprise Dev Ops maturity by sponsoring automation, improving release reliability, reducing operational silos, and enabling scalable engineering practices across teams.
• Build organisational delivery capability through coaching, leadership development, role clarity, and consistent standards for Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, and other delivery professionals.
• Own performance and budget outcomes by using data to improve predictability, throughput, quality, and return on investment, while making effective decisions on resource use and delivery trade-offs.

• Learner- and impact-focused
• Pragmatic and outcome-driven
• Calm, credible, and influential at senior levels
• Comfortable operating in complexity and ambiguity
• Passionate about continuous improvement and education-led impact

• Significant experience leading Agile delivery across multiple teams, programmes, or portfolios in a complex product or technology environment.
• Proven experience operating at senior leadership level, influencing prioritisation, governance, and delivery decisions across business and technology stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience establishing scaled delivery models and managing cross-team dependencies, risks, and escalations in fast-moving environments.
• Experience with financial planning, budget accountability, or investment prioritisation in support of delivery outcomes.

• Strong knowledge of Agile, Lean, and scaled delivery frameworks, with the judgment to apply governance proportionately across different teams and initiatives.
• Knowledge of risk management practices aligned to PMI principles,…