Lead Delivery Manager

Valtech; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career advancement with international 

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Valtech is seeking a Lead Delivery Manager to balance client needs with delivery team and company goals. You will ensure work aligns with commercial agreements and outcomes, managing expectations and risks with accountability across stakeholders.

You will lead cross-functional teams, drive cadence, and maintain momentum while creating governance artefacts and progress reports for executives.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple teams to meet customer needs.
• Experience managing large projects with PM certification.
• Proficient in budgeting and financial governance.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate cross-team coordination and manage interdependencies.
• Drive delivery cadence and maintain momentum across teams.
• Act as the central point of coordination for Product Owners and Tech Leads.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and cross-stream impacts.
• Create and maintain programme-level artefacts and progress reporting.
• Align outputs to strategic goals set by governance and clients.
• Facilitate cross-stream planning and mapping of critical paths.
• Consolidate stream reporting into an executive summary.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budget management

Delivery leadership

Education

Project management certification

Tools

RAIDD logs

Programme governance tools

Job description

Why Valtech? We’re advisors, visionaries, creative and techies. We embrace all things digital. We talk to each other. We have fun. We love our clients. We’re looking ahead • We are global

Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.

The opportunity

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries.

As a Lead Delivery Manager at Valtech you will need to be able to walk the line between the customer needs, the Delivery team’s needs and Valtech’s needs. That means you will be accountable for ensuring that the work being delivered by the team on the ground is in line with our commercial agreements and agreed commercial outcomes. In order to do this you will need to manage expectations and risk both internally and externally and be prepared to have difficult conversations and hold others to account where necessary.

Role Responsibilities:

• Facilitate cross-team coordination and manage interdependencies.
• Drive delivery cadence and maintain momentum across teams.
• Act as the central point of coordination for Product Owners and Tech Leads.
• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and cross-stream impacts.
• Create and maintain programme-level artefacts (integrated plans, RAIDD logs, resourcing forecasts, progress reporting).
• Align outputs to strategic goals set by the Programme governance and clients.
• Facilitate workshops for cross-stream planning and critical path mapping.
• Consolidate stream-level reporting into a coherent executive summary.
• Enforce standardised processes across teams (quality gates, documentation, reporting).
• Support communications between client stakeholders and delivery teams.

Must have:

• Proven experience managing multiple teams to meet customer needs
• Proven experience in managing large projects, preferably with relevant project management certification.
• Proven experience in the management of project budgets
• Ability to organize the teams and the work to hit and exceed required timescales
• Experience in leading and inspiring teams to reach a shared vision
• Ability to communicate at all levels; in particular, senior clients, project stakeholders, and teams
• Champion agile methodologies, design and support changes of team structures, and help embed ways of working e.g data driven decision making
• Ability to establish appropriate project management processes and artifacts
• Ability to connect work done by the team to customer value
• Ability to nurture constructive criticism to drive focus and continuous improvement
• An eye for detail with the ability to step back and consider the bigger picture
• Advanced English level

Meet the team:

In this role you will be working with a multi-disciplinary agile delivery team. Internally this will be made up of everyone needed to deliver a complex digital solution: from Business Analysts and Architects to Creatives and Developers. Critically to this role you will be working closely with our customers stakeholders at every stage of the delivery.

Commitment to reaching all kinds of people

We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals. No matter your background, you belong here. Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all.

The benefits

Beyond a competitive compensation package, we offer:

• Career advancement, with international mobility and professional development programs
• Learning and development, with access to cutting-edge tools, training and industry experts

About Valtech

Valtech is the experience innovation company that exists to unlock a better way to experience the world. By blending crafts, categories, and cultures, we help brands unlock new value in an increasingly digital world.

At the intersection of data, AI, creativity, and technology, we drive transformation for leading organizations, including L’Oréal, Mars, Audi, P&G, Volkswagen Dolby, and more.

At Valtech, we don’t just talk about transformation. We make it happen. Our people are the heart of our success, and we foster a workplace where everyone has the support to thrive, grow and innovate.

Are you ready to create what’s next? Join us.