Delivery Owner

Royal Mail; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Healthcare

Up to 18% bonus

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Pension with CDC

Job summary

Royal Mail in London is seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to drive CRM transformation across Salesforce and related platforms, directing agile squads to deliver high‑quality customer service improvements.

You will partner with Product Owners, engineers and business stakeholders to manage risks, dependencies and delivery cadence, while coaching teams to continuous improvement in a complex technology environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Delivery Manager or similar in a complex tech environment.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) and delivery metrics.
• Experience coordinating multiple teams and stakeholders across projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach one or more multidisciplinary agile teams, creating an environment where teams can deliver consistently and effectively.
• Facilitate planning sessions, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives to drive collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Support teams in delivering work predictably by identifying and removing blockers, managing dependencies and driving timely decision-making.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure work is well understood, appropriately planned and ready for delivery.
• Use delivery metrics and performance data to improve team effectiveness, delivery predictability and flow.
• Provide clear reporting on delivery progress, risks, dependencies and milestones.

Skills

Delivery Management

Agile / Scrum / Kanban

Stakeholder Management

Coaching teams

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

SAFe Certification

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Job description

Job reference 344965 Delivery Owner

Hybrid Working x3 days in London Farringdon

Permanent, Full time

Salary & Benefits

Competitive salary

Plus:

• Car allowance or cash equivalent
• Healthcare
• Up to 18% annual bonus potential
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with service
• Pension: access to the UK’s only Collective Defined Contribution scheme with industry-leading Royal Mail contributions of over 12%, flexible options to boost your savings, and a guaranteed retirement lump sum*

About The Role

Delivery Manager - CRM

We're looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to help drive the successful delivery of our CRM transformation programme.

Working across Salesforce and customer experience platforms, you'll lead the delivery rhythm of one or more agile squads, helping teams deliver high-quality solutions that improve colleague and customer experiences. You'll work closely with Product Owners, engineers, architects and business stakeholders to ensure priorities are delivered efficiently, risks are managed proactively and teams are continuously improving.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a major transformation programme and play a key role in modernising customer service technology used by thousands of colleagues and millions of customers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and coach one or more multidisciplinary agile teams, creating an environment where teams can deliver consistently and effectively.
• Facilitate planning sessions, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives to drive collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Support teams in delivering work predictably by identifying and removing blockers, managing dependencies and driving timely decision-making.
• Partner with Product Owners to ensure work is well understood, appropriately planned and ready for delivery.
• Use delivery metrics and performance data to improve team effectiveness, delivery predictability and flow.
• Provide clear reporting on delivery progress, risks, dependencies and milestones.
• Coordinate delivery activity across multiple internal teams, suppliers and technology partners.
• Ensure solutions are released safely and are fully operationally ready.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning and agile best practice.
• Drive ongoing improvements to delivery processes, team performance and customer outcomes.

About You

You’ll be an experienced Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or Agile Delivery Lead who enjoys helping teams perform at their best.

You’ll be comfortable working in complex technology environments, balancing multiple priorities and supporting teams to deliver value at pace while maintaining quality.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead or similar role within a complex technology environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience managing risks, dependencies and delivery activity across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong ability to coach and support high-performing agile teams.
• Experience using delivery metrics and performance data to drive improved outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience supporting the full delivery lifecycle from planning through to release and live service support.
• Experience working with delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or Confluence.

Desirable Experience

• Experience delivering Salesforce, CRM or customer experience platforms.
• Experience working within large-scale transformation programmes.
• Agile, Scrum Master or SAFe certifications.
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and delivery partners.
• Experience within customer-focused, operationally complex organisations such as logistics, retail, utilities or financial services.

Why join us?

You’ll be joining a major customer experience transformation programme with the opportunity to influence how technology is delivered across a large and complex organisation.

You’ll work alongside experienced product, engineering and customer teams, helping to shape modern CRM and customer service capabilities that have a real impact on colleagues and customers.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to work on large-scale customer and colleague experience transformation.
• Exposure to Salesforce, customer experience platforms and modern digital delivery practices.
• Collaborative and supportive agile environment.
• Significant scope to influence delivery approaches and ways of working.

Benefits & Rewards

In addition to the salary and benefits outlined above, you’ll also enjoy:

• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Funded Dental - As a manager you are eligible to a level of employer funded dental insurance**
• Health Assessment - As a manager you are eligible to an employer funded health assessment every 2 years**
• Benefits Account - With more than 800 retail offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills as well as employer provided and voluntary benefits to suit your lifestyle.
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to a range of free services and tools, offering support for physical and mental wellbeing, financial guidance, and social support whenever you need it.
• Eligible for enrolment in NEST pension plan after 3 months service and CDC pension scheme after 12 months service
• Available only to permanent employees

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face/virtual interview.

We are committed to transparency about our career opportunities and the qualities we value.

We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you. (delete if essential criteria only)

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

Closing Date: 20/10/2026. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.