Associate Delivery Manager for Digital Services (Hybrid)

National Highways; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is hiring an Associate Delivery Manager to bolster its Digital Technical Competence team. Based in the Milton Keynes area, the role supports delivery across digital services, removes blockers, and promotes agile practices while mentoring teams to sustain momentum and continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, maintaining delivery visibility, and accurate progress reporting in line with GDS and National Highways standards.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience planning and organising work across the delivery lifecycle.
• Proactive approach to identifying and raising risks, issues and blockers.
• Some experience working within an Agile team and using Agile methodologies and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of products and services by helping teams maintain momentum and focus.
• Assist in removing blockers, facilitating agile practices, and promoting collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Support planning and coordinating delivery activities, maintaining visibility and momentum across the team.
• Support Agile ceremonies and keep delivery boards, documentation and artefacts up to date.
• Identify and help resolve blockers, escalating risks and issues to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Prepare accurate reporting on delivery progress, risks, dependencies and key metrics.
• Support compliance, service assessments and stakeholder communication in line with relevant GDS/DDaT and National Highways standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Delivery planning

Agile methodologies

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

MS Project

Jira

Miro

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Office 365

Job description

National Highways is hiring an Associate Delivery Manager to bolster its Digital Technical Competence team. Based in the Milton Keynes area, the role supports delivery across digital services, removes blockers, and promotes agile practices while mentoring teams to sustain momentum and continuous improvement.

The role emphasizes collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, maintaining delivery visibility, and accurate progress reporting in line with GDS and National Highways standards.