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Delivery Lead
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Job Title: Delivery Lead
Max Supplier Rate: £580 - £630
Clearance Required: BPSS
Duration: 6 months
Location: Telford with 2 days/week in office
IR35 Status: Inside
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Delivery Lead to join the client's team within Tax Admin. The successful candidate will work alongside a team of Delivery Leads, Scrum Masters and technical specialists to oversee the delivery of a varied portfolio of change across one of the client's largest and most business-critical services.
The role requires a proactive self-starter who can establish effective delivery controls, manage stakeholder expectations, balance competing priorities and ensure work is delivered to agreed timelines and quality standards within a complex delivery environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of a portfolio of the project deliveries from initiation through to implementation.
- Create and maintain delivery plans, forecasts and governance artefacts.
- Manage risks, issues, dependencies and escalations.
- Provide clear reporting and progress updates to stakeholders.
- Coordinate activities across engineering, test, architecture, business analysis and Scrum Master functions.
- Lead resource planning and forecasting activities, ensuring delivery commitments remain achievable and risks are identified early.
- Work with stakeholders to prioritise demand, balancing available capacity against business priorities and delivery commitments.
- Ensure releases are delivered in line with agreed milestones and governance controls.
- Drive continuous improvement across delivery processes and ways of working.
- Support and mentor junior delivery colleagues where appropriate.
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Skills & Experience
- Proven experience leading delivery across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Strong delivery governance, planning and reporting experience.
- Experience of resource planning, forecasting and capacity management.
- Ability to prioritise competing demands and make informed decisions based on delivery risk, business value and team capacity.
- Experienced in stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong risk, issue and dependency management skills.
- Experience working within Agile and hybrid delivery environments.
- Public sector experience desirable but not essential.
- Experience of Jira, Confluence and similar delivery management tooling desirable.
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