Delivery Manager - Senior Manager Framework (18 month FTC)

Leeds Building Society; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working – 2 days per week in оф

Annual bonus up to 12%

Matched pension contributions up to 10

26 days holiday + bank holidays + buy‑

Colleague Mortgage and Saver products

2 days volunteering per year

Job summary

Leeds Building Society is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to lead the Senior Manager Framework assurance within our Core Transformation programme, guiding a safe, controlled transition and ensuring a robust go-live.

You will coordinate evidence across business readiness, technology, testing and risk, and report to senior stakeholders, driving actions to resolve gaps while maintaining strong governance throughout the transition to BAU.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex transformation, regulatory change or governance programmes.
• Strong project and delivery management expertise with structured plans and milestones.
• Experience in a regulated environment, ideally financial services, with governance and approvals.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence at senior levels, including Board.
• Experience coordinating evidence across business, technology and risk for reporting.
• Understanding of risk, controls and dependency management with problem-solving focus.
• Ability to simplify complexity and maintain governance and delivery controls.
• Experience managing resources, budgets and delivery priorities for efficiency.
• Organised, collaborative and pragmatic with momentum across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of senior management assurance and attestation across Core Transformation.
• Develop a structured assurance approach with four checkpoints and clear timelines.
• Coordinate evidence from readiness, technology, testing, migration, risk and controls.
• Provide robust, traceable evidence and reporting for go-live decisions.
• Engage with Senior Manager Function holders and executives for assurance discussions.
• Identify gaps, challenge concerns and drive actions through to resolution.

Skills

Transformation governance

Delivery management

Regulatory change

Stakeholder management

Risk & controls

Programme reporting

Resource & budget management

Facilitation

Job description

How you'll help us live our purpose

We've been helping our members save for their future and buy their own home since 1875. Join us and you'll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

It's a purpose that drives everything we do. And you can play your part too. We're looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to join our Core Transformation programme on an 18-month Fixed Term Contract, leading the Senior Manager Framework (SMF) assurance process to support a safe, controlled and successful business transition.

How you'll make a difference

You'll take ownership of the senior management assurance and attestation process across our Core Transformation programme, bringing pace, structure and clarity to the evidence and decisions needed to support a confident go-live.

Working closely with senior leaders, business teams and independent assurance functions, you'll develop and deliver a structured approach across four key assurance checkpoints, ensuring expectations, responsibilities and timelines are clearly understood.

You'll coordinate evidence from across business readiness, technology, testing, migration, risk and controls, bringing complex information together into a clear, reliable picture of programme readiness. With accountability for the overall process, you'll ensure evidence is robust, traceable and available when needed, proactively identifying gaps, challenging concerns and driving actions through to resolution.

Engaging directly with Senior Manager Function holders and executive stakeholders, you'll facilitate meaningful assurance discussions, manage risks and dependencies, and provide clear reporting to support informed decisions. Your focus will be on creating a proportionate, transparent and well-controlled process that gives senior leaders confidence in the Society's readiness for change.

This isn't a technical implementation role. Your focus will be on ensuring a safe, controlled and successful transition into Business as Usual (BAU), bringing together the people, processes, plans and assurance needed to embed change and maintain operational stability.

What will you bring to the role?

• Proven experience leading complex transformation, regulatory change or governance programmes, with accountability for successful delivery and business outcomes.
• Strong project and delivery management expertise, with the ability to develop structured plans, coordinate multiple workstreams and deliver against challenging milestones.
• Experience operating within a regulated environment, ideally FS,with a sound understanding of regulatory expectations, governance, assurance and formal approval processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging and presenting to Board and senior accountable stakeholders, including the confidence to challenge constructively and influence decisions at the highest levels.
• Experience coordinating evidence, managing assurance checkpoints and translating complex business, technology and risk information into clear, decision-ready reporting.
• Strong understanding of risk, controls and dependency management, ideally gained through delivering regulatory or risk-related change, with the judgement to identify gaps, escalating concerns and driving actions through to resolution.
• Ability to bring clarity to complex and ambiguous situations, balancing competing priorities while maintaining appropriate governance and delivery controls.
• Experience managing resources, budgets and delivery priorities, ensuring activity remains proportionate, efficient and focused on successful outcomes.
• A highly organised, collaborative and pragmatic approach, with strong facilitation skills, attention to detail and the confidence to maintain momentum across multiple stakeholders.

And in return, you'll get the best from us:

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office
• Annual bonus of up to 12%
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme
• Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
• 2 days' volunteering per year

We'll give you a place to belong with the support to learn, develop and shape a meaningful career.

Why choose us?

Our business is centred around our people. Our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, as shown by our Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We're committed to equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

You'll be joining a truly purpose-focused culture which helped us win the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023 Business Culture Awards. This recognises how we've embedded our purpose with our colleagues, and the actions we've taken to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.