Senior delivery Manager

Methods Business and Digital Technology; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning access

Wellness programme

Pension Salary Exchange

Private Medical Insurance

Travel Insurance

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Job summary

Methods is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to lead complex data and AI delivery within our client projects. You will drive initiation, planning, implementation, and close-down phases, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to achieve strategic goals.

You will guide delivery methodologies, manage risks, and ensure successful outcomes across high-stakes programmes, while maintaining strong client relationships and reporting.

Qualifications

• You will manage complex, high-risk technology delivery programmes.
• You will lead agile delivery across multidisciplinary client projects.
• You will build and motivate delivery teams and manage dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain delivery teams, ensuring motivation and collaboration.
• Manage complex internal and external dependencies and risks.
• Act as escalation point for large or high-risk commercial issues.
• Lead client/stakeholder engagement and project reporting.
• Remove blockers and develop plans for difficult situations.
• Lead teams in Agile and other delivery methods.

Skills

Delivery management

Agile methodologies

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Multi-disciplinary teams

Problem solving

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Planner

Job description

Job title: Senior Delivery Manager

Team: Data and AI team.

Location: This role will be hybrid and require 2 days per week on‑site in Manchester or Derby.

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for the effective delivery of complex and high-risk products/projects and services. working closely with all roles in a multidisciplinary team on client projects, driving the initiation, planning, implementation and close down phases in line with client goals and strategic objectives.

You will be:

• Building and maintaining delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well
• Managing complex internal and external dependencies.
• Managing risk identification, mitigation, escalation and resolution.
• Acting as the escalation point and resolve large or high-risk commercial management issues.
• Managing client/stakeholder engagement activities, including project reporting
• Able to communicate efficiently and effectively
• Able to remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations

You will demonstrate:

• You must have 10+ years managing successful technologically driven projects using agile methodology, delivering enterprise IT programmes
• Experience in applying delivery methodologies in practice and can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, and being able to adapt this to the clients’ needs
• Experience in managing complex data projects
• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in managing challenging client relationships
• Experience in using project management software, such as Jira or Microsoft planner
• Ability to lead teams in Agile and other delivery methodologies.
• Ability to take responsibility for relationships with contracted suppliers.
• Ability to remove blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations
• Managing complex internal and external dependencies.
• Knowledge of how to lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment.
• Ability to identify issues with current delivery processes

You may also have desirable skills and experience:

• Knowledge of tools, languages and methodologies used to deliver data-centric projects
• You know how to lead a team through the different phases of the delivery product life cycle.
• Promote best practice and continued development across the business
• Knowledge and experience identifying further follow on opportunities

Security Clearance

UKSV (United Kingdom Security Vetting) clearance is required for this role, with Security Check (SC) as the minimum standard, either already held or with a willingness to undergo the process. Some roles/projects may require Developed Vetting (DV) clearance; while not mandatory, a willingness to obtain DV clearance would be beneficial. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS); details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website GOV.UK – Government baseline personnel security standard. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected. Details of this will be discussed with you at interview.

Working at Methods

Methods exist to improve society by helping people make better decisions with data. Combining passionate people, sector-specific insight, and technical excellence to provide our customers an end-to-end data service.

We use a collaborative, creative and user centric approach to data to do good and solve difficult problems. Ensuring that our outputs are transparent, robust, and transformative.We value discussion and debate as part of our approach. We will question assumptions, ambition, and process – but do so with respect and humility.

We relish difficult problems, and overcome them with innovation, creativity, and technical freedom to help us designoptimumsolutions. Ethics, privacy, and quality are at the heart of our work, and we will not sacrifice these for outcomes.

We treat data with respect and use it only for the right purpose. Our people are positive, dedicated, and relentless. Data is a vast topic, but we strive for interactions that are engaging, informative and fun in equal measure. Butmaintaina steely focus on outcomes and delivering quality products for our customers.

We are passionate about our people; we want out colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

By joining us you can expect

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment

As well as this, we offer:

• Developmentaccess to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• Wellness24/7 Confidential employeeassistanceprogramme
• Social-office parties, pizza Friday and commitment to charitable causes
• Time off-25 days of annual leave a year, plus bank holidays, with theoptionto buy 10 extra days each year
• Volunteering–2 paid days per year to volunteer in our local communities or within a charity organisation
• PensionSalary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Life Assuranceof 4 times base salary
• Private Medical Insurancewhich is non-contributory(spouse and dependents included)
• Worldwide Travel Insurancewhich is non-contributory(spouse and dependents included)