Specialist Delivery Manager - POS Lending

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Job summary

A financial services company in Edinburgh is seeking a Specialist Delivery Manager to oversee the delivery of Point of Sale (PoS) Lending. The role requires strong knowledge of retail payments and Agile methodologies. Candidates should have experience in coordinating product launches and managing project delivery in a cross-functional team setting.

Qualifications

• Strong industry understanding of retail payments, financing options, and compliance requirements.
• First-hand experience of successful product launches in relevant areas.
• Ability to independently manage RAID logs.

Responsibilities

• Align scope with delivery capacity, ensuring optimal team performance.
• Track and report delivery progress versus milestones.
• Collaborate cross-functionally during discovery, design, delivery phases.

Skills

Point of Sale (PoS) finance systems

Agile product development

RESTful APIs

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Join Boxed as a Specialist Delivery Manager - POS Lending

Responsible for the delivery of Point of Sale (PoS) Lending, one of our specialist Product Lines.

In this role you will:

• Align scope with delivery capacity, ensuring that teams are working at an optimal level without over or under-committing
• Own the PoS Lending product plan, feed into the master plan, and ensure that any dependencies are understood and managed, tracking progress versus plan, highlighting and mitigating delivery risks
• Report burn down / progress at all levels of organisation in a transparent way, in line with Delivery Director’s requirements
• Apply specialist technical knowledge and industry best practices for PoS Lending to influence cross-functional teams when designing and delivering product solutions
• Support the Product Managers with a business case to ensure that resources are being deployed wisely, and that the highest value work is being prioritised
• Collaborate cross-functionally and support during discovery, design, delivery, launch, and in-life phases for PoS Lending
• Ensure appropriate levels of business readiness across all Boxed business functions and other suppliers
• Ensure that product plans and specifications are appropriately documented in formats that can be shared with clients and internal stakeholders
• Track and report delivery progress versus milestones, ensuring that project status is well understood across the business
• Log and track risks and mitigation, identifying project bottlenecks, recommending and implementing solutions
• Work with Engineering teams to ensure that products are tested appropriately and that high standards of product quality are maintained

What makes you a great fit:

• Strong industry understanding of delivering Point of Sale (PoS) or ePoS finance systems - deep understanding of retail payments, financing options (e.g., in‑store / e-financing, installment plans, BNPL etc.), compliance requirements and vendor integrations across terminals, merchant websites and back‑office finance platforms.
• First-hand experience of successful launch(es) for a product in the required specialist area, including coordination across Product, Engineering, Operations, Commercial, Risk, suppliers etc
• Strong understanding of Agile product development, including tooling, such as Jira & Confluence
• Own, execute, and coordinate regular delivery governance and agile ceremonies, ensuring a strict level of rigour around delivery execution and effective status reporting
• Ability to independently establish and manage RAID logs
• Contribute to an ‘always-evolving’ community of practice, improving ways of working across delivery
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, white-labelled front-end applications. system integrations, and microservices architectures
• Ability to create delivery plans and manage through to successful completion, with clear reporting into the master plan owned by the Delivery Director