Senior Delivery Manager

Virgin Active; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Virgin Active membership for you and a

Pension with employer contributions

Private Dental and Healthcare

Life Assurance 4x salary

Staff discounts across Virgin Active

Discounts with Virgin Group

20% off food and drink at KAUAI in-clu

Salary Finance access

Mental health EAP – 6 free counselling

Corporate letting services via Dexters

ePoints online discounts

Job summary

Virgin Active in London is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to join the Digital & Technology Transformation Team. You will bridge Product and Engineering, turning ideas into clear requirements and ensuring features are ready for development.

Role focuses on coordinating across product, data, IT and QA, managing external vendors, and owning release schedules while mitigating risks for multi-stream delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering cross-team digital change.
• Strong ability to manage external vendors against milestones.
• Experience owning RAID logs and release schedules across streams.
• Skilled at mapping and removing dependencies across product, data and IT.

Responsibilities

• Provide a single, current view of progress across teams and timelines.
• Make cross-team dependencies visible and owned to avoid handovers gaps.
• Turn release sequencing into a maintained, trusted schedule.
• Verify evidence behind partner progress rather than accepting claims at face value.
• Own risks and blockers to resolution.
• Free up design, product and engineering time by managing dependencies.

Skills

Delivery Manager

Scrum Master

Project Manager

Vendor management

RAID log

Dependencies management

Risk management

Agile ceremonies

Stakeholder reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

As we evolve into Social Wellness Clubs, we are creating spaces and experiences that support every aspect of our members’ physical, mental, nutritional and social wellbeing. By bringing together expert guidance, genuine community, personalised experiences and innovative technology, we make wellness feel accessible, welcoming and easy to navigate. Virgin Active is committed to recruiting the finest people who share our passion for creating exceptional experiences and delivering world-class service every day.We are looking for an Senior Delivery Managerto join our Digital & Technology Transformation Team.

Role Type: Permanent - Full Time

Hours: 40

Technology is central to this evolution. We are transforming our digital platforms and building globally scalable solutions across our mobile applications, internal platforms and third-party services.

You will bridge the gap between Product and Engineering, turning product ideas into clear functional, system and data requirements. Working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Architecture and Data teams, you will ensure features are clearly defined and ready for development..

The Role

• Give the business one single, current view of what is landing and when, across every team contributing to a project.
• Make cross-team dependencies visible and owned, so handovers never fall through the cracks between boards.
• Turn release sequencing across product, data, QA and IT into a maintained, trusted schedule rather than something pieced together by conversation.
• Build real confidence in external partner progress by verifying the evidence behind a status, not just accepting it.
• Take clear, personal ownership of risks and blockers through to resolution.
• Free up design, product and engineering time for higher-value work by taking the chasing of dependencies off their plate.

Who We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master or Project Manager delivering cross-team, cross-system digital change.
• Track record of managing external vendors, implementation and service partners against committed milestones - including verifying the evidence behind reported progress, not just accepting it.
• Experience owning a RAID log and a release schedule across multiple delivery streams, not just reporting on one.
• Comfortable mapping and managing dependencies across product, engineering, data and IT teams, and unblocking them without waiting for escalation.
• Experience planning and running pilots - cohort/site selection, environments, training, entry and exit criteria, rollback.
• Confident, concise reporting to steering and leadership forums.
• Experience facilitating agile ceremonies - planning, stand-ups, reviews, retros.
• Experience working closely with Product Design and Research teams within digital product delivery, with an understanding of how discovery, research, design, validation and engineering need to sequence and overlap.
• Experience within membership, subscription, health and fitness, retail or multi-country digital platforms would be advantageous. Exposure to Azure services, mobile applications or data and AI products would also be beneficial.

What You’ll Get

• The opportunity to be part of a brand redefining the future of wellness
• A premium environment with industry-leading facilities
• Development and progression opportunities aligned to your level
• Access to a vibrant, engaged member community
• The platform to build your career, reputation and impact25 days (excluding bank holidays) annual leave, plus a Celebration Day – and we want you take them
• Access to The Peoples Pension, with our contributions at 3%
• Complimentary Virgin Active membership for you and a buddy. You can also get free membership for your children too, ability to take advantage of our Club V.
• Private Dental and Healthcare Insurance – your physical health is important, and we want you to have the access to healthcare should you require it.
• Life Assurance 4x your salary – which we hope you will not need.
• We want you to love Virgin Active like we do, so you get discounts across Virgin active – everything from guest passes to 50% offPTsessions.
• You will join Virgin Family - where not only can you communicate with your colleagues across Virgin Group, but also many discounts (including Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Holidays and Virgin Media/O2)
• Maintaining a healthy diet while at work can be hard, so we offer all our team members 20% off food and drink at our KAUAI branches located in clubs.
• Managing finances can be difficult, so we offer access to Salary Finance. They can support you with loans and savings plans, as well as help you become a personal finance expert.
• Mental health is a cornerstone of wellbeing. Our Health Heroes employer assistance programme is there when you need a helping hand with 6 free counselling sessions.
• We know finding a new home to rent can be stressful. We partner with Dexters who offer complimentary corporate letting services – meaning no tenant charges.
• Access to ePoints, offering loads of online discounts to retailers.