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Digital Delivery Manager
Contract Role – 12 Months (Inside IR35)
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Agile Delivery Manager to join a major digital transformation programme, working closely with Product Managers and multi-disciplinary service squads to ensure effective, high-quality delivery of products and services.
This is a hands-on role for a proactive Delivery Manager who can hit the ground running, bringing proven leadership and a strong track record of running cross-functional Agile teams. You will balance Agile best practice with pragmatic delivery decisions, ensuring planning, execution, tracking and reporting of priorities across your squad.
You will also be part of a wider Delivery Manager Community of Practice, contributing to and helping raise standards of delivery management across the organisation.
Key Details
- Location: Hybrid – 1-2 days per month required in the Newport office. Attendance in the office is required on Day 1 for security and IT equipment collection.
- Contract Length: 12 months
- IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Key Responsibilities
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies – stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, and reviews – to maintain momentum and foster continuous improvement
- Support the team in estimating, tracking, and delivering priorities in line with business goals
- Work closely with Product Managers and technical stakeholders to understand priorities and dependencies
- Oversee the daily flow of work items from backlog to delivery, using flow metrics to improve predictability and efficiency
- Track and report against key milestones and forecasts, providing clear visibility of team progress
- Represent the team at programme-level sessions, articulating updates, risks, and dependencies
- Identify and address risks and issues promptly, ensuring mitigation plans are in place
- Act as a key escalation point during live incidents, coordinating resolution and communication
- Proactively remove blockers to team performance
- Drive team maturity in Agile delivery practices, fostering a culture of learning and improvement
- Manage cross-team dependencies, ensuring smooth integration and alignment of delivery plans
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Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, running cross-functional Agile delivery teams
- A relevant Scrum Master or Agile Project Management qualification (Prince2 not accepted)
- Extensive experience of Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban, with knowledge of DevOps
- Demonstrable leadership experience, with the ability to hit the ground running in a fast-paced environment
- Experience leading teams delivering solutions as part of a wider programme
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders, with an understanding of organisational and political context
- Expertise in facilitating Agile ceremonies and team collaboration
- Ability to manage priorities, dependencies, and risks effectively
- Experience using Agile tools such as Azure DevOps, Actionable Agile, or similar
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience leading technical delivery teams using automated delivery methodologies (CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, etc.)
- Ability to influence both within a technology function and across the wider organisation
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Desirable Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with Kanban flow metrics and data-driven decision-making
- Demonstrable experience producing high-value project delivery MI
- Experience promoting the understanding and value of Agile within and outside of IT
- Product Manager/Product Owner experience
- Understanding of DSIT/CDDO digital and technology pipelines
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Please apply below, or for more information, contact simon.pickerell@veredus.co.uk
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