Delivery Assurance and Change Lead

Valley, United Kingdom | Posted on 15/10/2026

Our client, a leading organisation operating within a highly regulated and complex environment, is seeking a Delivery Assurance and Change Lead to provide governance, assurance, and control across a critical operational programme.

Reporting into the site leadership team, this role will be responsible for delivering robust governance frameworks, ensuring effective planning, performance reporting, risk management, and change control. The successful candidate will play a key role in providing leaders with the information, insight, and confidence required to make informed operational and strategic decisions.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced governance, business change, delivery assurance, or operational planning professional who thrives in a fast-paced stakeholder environment and enjoys driving continuous improvement.

As the Delivery Assurance and Change Lead, you will:

• Develop and maintain governance arrangements that support effective decision-making and delivery performance.
• Coordinate and oversee change activity through an integrated and controlled schedule.
• Ensure risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies are identified, managed, monitored, and escalated appropriately.
• Record, track, and drive actions, decisions, and commitments through to successful completion.
• Deliver clear, accurate, and timely SQCDPE reporting using objective performance data.
• Facilitate governance forums, delivery reviews, and performance discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance planning, governance, reporting, assurance, and control disciplines.
• Build delivery assurance capability across the business, promoting best-practice delivery techniques and governance standards.
• Share lessons learned and continuous improvement opportunities across the wider organisation.
• Work collaboratively across customer, supplier, and internal stakeholder groups to ensure successful delivery outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Proven experience in delivery assurance, business governance, operational planning, business change, programme controls, or performance management within a complex environment.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple work streams and competing priorities.
• Experience implementing governance, assurance, risk management, and change control processes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and produce concise management information and performance reports.
• Experience facilitating governance meetings, reviews, and stakeholder forums.
• The confidence to provide constructive challenge and influence decision-makers at all levels.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to engage credibly with senior customer, operational, and industry stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Experience supporting business transformation or change initiatives would be advantageous.
• Experience working within a regulated operational environment is desirable.
• Full-time position
• 40 hours per week
• Monday to Friday working pattern
• Further salary and benefits information available upon application