Delivery Manager - NESO

About the Role

National Energy System Operator (NESO) recognises the potential of bright and talented individuals, and we encourage you to join us as Great Britain’s energy system undergoes an ambitious, exciting, and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

The Delivery Manager(s) for OBP is a critical leadership role within the Balancing Transformation Programme, working in close partnership with the Engineering Manager to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of complex, multivendor technology products. This role provides delivery governance, stakeholder alignment, financial oversight, and operational readiness across a product area that supports mission-critical energy system operations.

Success in this role requires strong planning discipline, commercial acumen, operational awareness, and the ability to influence across engineering, product, vendor, and business teams.

This role can be based from Wokingham, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home. We are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements.

• Own and maintain end-to-end delivery plans, ensuring realistic, aligned, and transparent milestones and resource requirements.‑to‑end delivery plans, ensuring realistic, aligned, and transparent milestones and resource requirements.
• Manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) with discipline, ensuring early warning of delivery risks and clear mitigation actions.
• Build strong relationships with business teams, product leads, platform teams, and vendor partners to ensure delivery alignment.
• Use NESO business and product knowledge to challenge priorities, scope, and sequencing when needed.
• Provide structured and proactive delivery reporting to senior stakeholders.

• Manage budgets, cost tracking, forecasting, and financial governance across the product lifecycle.
• Lead investment governance, including sanction approvals, business case updates, steering committees, and project closure processes.
• Drive vendor and commercial management activities including RFPs for resourcing, delivery partners, or product procurement.
• Oversee contract performance, scope control, and commercial risk management with clear escalation and recommendations.

• Ensure CNI (Critical National Infrastructure) operational readiness in partnership with SRE and operational support teams.
• Embed operational considerations early in delivery to support mature Dev Ops practices and minimise operational risk.
• Work closely with business teams on communication, change impact, incident preparedness, and release readiness.
• Support continuous improvement in operational handovers, service acceptance, and incident response mechanisms.

We’re forging the path, and we know we can’t do it alone. That’s why we need visionary minds like yours to join us on this transformative journey. In this case, we’re looking for someone with:

• Strong delivery leadership experience in multi‑team, multi‑vendor technology environments.
• Excellent understanding of an organisation’s business, operational objectives, and stakeholder landscape, with the ability to challenge engineering, product, or commercial decisions using this insight.
• Proven delivery governance capability: RAID management, milestone planning, reporting, roadmap alignment, dependency oversight.
• Strong project and programme management skills including cost management, budget forecasting, and investment governance.
• Experience leading commercial activities: RFPs, vendor negotiations, contract management, supplier performance tracking.
• Ability to build strong relationships across business teams and act as a trusted partner in shaping delivery outcomes.
• Skilled in working through ambiguity, structuring complex challenges, and driving clarity across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation.
• Demonstrated leadership behaviours including ownership, accountability, calm decision making, and…