Digital Delivery Manager - 12 Months - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

12-Month Contract | Hybrid (Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham or Newcastle)

We're looking for an experienced Agile Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of digital products and services within a large-scale transformation environment.

This is an opportunity to join a growing and evolving programme, working on greenfield initiatives where you'll help shape new services from inception through to live operation. You'll work across the full product lifecycle, driving delivery, removing blockers, and enabling high-performing multidisciplinary teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery across Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live phases.
• Build and maintain high-performing agile teams focused on continuous improvement.
• Drive delivery planning, roadmaps, governance, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies, workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Work closely with Product Owners, engineers, designers, researchers and business stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
• Track delivery progress using meaningful metrics and reporting.
• Manage budgets, forecasts and project financials where required.
• Promote agile best practices and foster a collaborative, delivery-focused culture.

Essential Experience

• Proven background delivering complex digital products and services in Agile environments.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams including software engineering, UX, user research and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery methodologies, frameworks and tooling.
• Demonstrable experience managing risks, dependencies, governance and stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to facilitate workshops and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience creating and maintaining delivery roadmaps and plans.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with a servant-leader approach.

Highly Desirable

• Experience within large, complex public sector or enterprise environments.
• Greenfield programme experience with the ability to operate in a fast-moving, evolving delivery landscape.
• Experience delivering cloud-based solutions, particularly AWS environments.
• Experience working within immature or newly established services where processes and ways of working are still being defined.