Head of Software Delivery & Delivery Excellence

Holiday Extras; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pizza Fridays

Profit sharing

Pension scheme

Gym discounts

Hybrid/Office campus

Job summary

Holiday Extras is seeking a Head of Software Delivery to run the delivery system and rhythm for Product Development. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture and IT to provide visible, structured delivery and informed decision-making across initiatives.

You will unite strategic work, platform, security and health into a coherent delivery picture, leading agile delivery, improving planning and surfacing risks early for the leadership team.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating delivery of complex initiatives with multiple teams.
• Translate business objectives into actionable delivery plans with milestones.
• Clear and concise communication for senior leaders and teams.
• Ability to surface risks and dependencies early with owners.
• Strong organisational skills to create structure and momentum.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain one integrated view of Product Development delivery across strategic initiatives, platform and domain work, security and technical health.
• Own and coordinate the Product Development planning and operating rhythm, including planning cycles, PDLT inputs, delivery reviews, decision and action tracking, consistent communication and follow-through.
• Give PDLT clear, concise and reliable information about progress, forecasts, capacity, risks and the trade-offs requiring a decision.
• Surface dependencies and delivery risks early, with clear owners and next steps, establish clear escalation routes and help the right people reach decisions.
• Coordinate and report Product Development’s contribution to enterprise programmes, working closely with the leaders responsible for the overall programmes.
• Lead, support and develop a high- performing agile delivery team.
• Strengthen team-level planning, work breakdown, reviews, retrospectives, forecasting and continuous improvement.
• Establish pragmatic delivery standards and reliable use of tools and data, without imposing one way of working on every team.
• Use evidence to improve delivery health, quality, flow and predictability rather than measuring activity for its own sake.
• Build trusted relationships across Product Development and the wider business, turning complex delivery information into clear communication.
• Facilitate difficult cross-functional discussions and workshops so that they end with clear decisions, owners and actions.

Skills

Relationship building

Influence without authority

Delivery coordination

Progress reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile delivery

Risk & dependency management

People leadership

Strategic planning

Job description

Holiday Extras is seeking a Head of Software Delivery to run the delivery system and rhythm for Product Development. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture and IT to provide visible, structured delivery and informed decision-making across initiatives.

You will unite strategic work, platform, security and health into a coherent delivery picture, leading agile delivery, improving planning and surfacing risks early for the leadership team.