Specialist Delivery Manager - POS Lending

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in London seeks a Specialist Delivery Manager to oversee the Point of Sale Lending product line. The role involves collaborating with various teams, managing delivery risks, and ensuring product quality standards. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in PoS finance systems and agile product development. This position offers an excellent opportunity to drive product success in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of retail payments and compliance requirements.
• Experience coordinating across multiple teams for product launches.
• Ability to create and manage delivery plans effectively.

Responsibilities

• Align delivery scope with capacity to optimize team performance.
• Own product plan and track progress against milestones.
• Log and manage risks, recommending solutions as needed.

Skills

Strong industry understanding of PoS finance systems

Experience in product launches

Agile product development

Understanding of RESTful APIs

Ability to manage RAID logs

Tools

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