Lead Delivery Manager

NHS England; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England seeks an experienced Lead Delivery Manager to guide senior delivery across a portfolio of AI-enabled, data-led and digital transformation products and services. You will coordinate diverse teams to achieve safe, useful and sustainable improvements in operational performance and clinical workflow.

The role requires collaboration with product, clinical, operational, technical, data, engineering, user-centred design, governance, information governance and cyber security teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Lead delivery across a portfolio of AI-enabled, data-led and digital products or services.
• Enable multidisciplinary teams to deliver value using agile, lean and user-centred ways of working.
• Turn priorities and user needs into clear delivery plans, roadmaps and success measures.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery across a portfolio of AI-enabled, data-led and digital products or services from discovery through to live operation.
• Enable multidisciplinary teams to deliver value using agile, lean and user-centred ways of working.
• Work with product, clinical, operational and supplier stakeholders to turn priorities into delivery plans, roadmaps and success measures.
• Manage delivery plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, blockers and performance reporting across multiple workstreams.
• Support products and services through governance, assurance and approval processes.
• Ensure consideration of clinical safety, information governance, cyber security, accessibility, responsible AI, adoption and live-service support.
• Manage delivery risks including data readiness, model performance and user trust.
• Coordinate stakeholders across health and care organisations and partner teams to support implementation and continuous improvement.
• Build and sustain multidisciplinary teams, adapting structures to delivery needs.

Skills

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Product delivery

Tools

ESR

Governance frameworks

Job description

The 10 Year Health Plan delivers one of the most seismic shifts in the history of the health service. It sets out how the NHS must change to create a truly modern health service, designed to meet the needs of our changing population. The Lead Delivery Managers will provide senior delivery leadership across a portfolio of complex AI-enabled, data-led and digital transformation products and services that will bring about that change. The post holders will lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, useful and sustainable solutions that support operational improvement, clinical workflow transformation, better decision-making and improved outcomes across health and care. The post holders will work with product, clinical, operational, technical, data, engineering, user-centred design, assurance, information governance, cyber, commercial, supplier and frontline teams to ensure delivery is user-centred, safe, compliant and focused on measurable benefits.

• Lead delivery across a portfolio of AI-enabled, data-led and digital products or services from discovery through to live operation.
• Enable multidisciplinary teams to deliver value using agile, lean and user-centred ways of working.
• Work with product, clinical, operational, technical and supplier stakeholders to turn priorities and user needs into clear delivery plans, roadmaps and success measures.
• Manage delivery plans, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, blockers and performance reporting across multiple workstreams.
• Support products and services through governance, assurance and approval processes.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of clinical safety, information governance, cyber security, accessibility, responsible AI, adoption and live-service support.
• Manage delivery risks associated with AI-enabled and data-led products, including data readiness, model performance, user trust, monitoring and operational readiness.
• Coordinate stakeholders across health and care organisations, suppliers and partner teams to support implementation, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Build and sustain effective multidisciplinary teams, adapting team structures and ways of working to meet delivery needs.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jonathan Orritt Job title: Chief AI Architect Email address: [e-mail]