Strategic Delivery Lead: Digital, AI & IoT

Parallax; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Private dental care

Pension salary sacrifice

Hybrid working

Flexible working

Extra annual leave

Maternity/Paternity leave

Sick pay

Subscriptions packages

Hackathons

PD days & training

Free lunch Thursdays

Team socials

Job summary

Parallax in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Delivery Manager to lead complex digital engagements across AI, IoT, and web applications for a diverse client portfolio. You will steer delivery across multiple teams, ensuring clarity, risk management, and value delivery.

You will build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, shape delivery strategies, and mentor teams to raise standards. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery in a consultancy environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex digital engagements in a consultancy environment.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary Agile teams and multiple workstreams.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness, including experience drafting statements of work and managing budgets, forecasts, scope and delivery risk.
• Experience contributing to account growth, pre-sales, discovery, estimation, proposals or similar commercial activity.
• Strong understanding of product and delivery practices, with the ability to adapt your approach to different clients and challenges.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others and improving delivery practices beyond your immediate project.
• Enough technical understanding to work credibly with engineering teams across APIs, architecture, environments, QA, DevOps and cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex digital engagements from shaping and discovery through to delivery and growth, taking accountability for successful client, user and commercial outcomes.
• Lead across multiple teams and workstreams, creating clarity around priorities and dependencies, removing barriers and enabling cross‑functional teams to work with autonomy and accountability.
• Shape the right delivery approach for each engagement, adapting ways of working to the client, team and problem rather than applying a one‑size‑fits‑all process.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, challenging constructively, providing strategic advice and helping clients make pragmatic decisions.
• Manage scope, budgets, forecasts and delivery risk with strong commercial awareness, balancing client needs with successful outcomes for Parallax.
• Identify opportunities to create additional value within client accounts and contribute to commercial activity including discovery, estimation, proposals and SoWs.
• Mentor and coach others and help raise delivery standards across Parallax by sharing learning and improving our processes and ways of working.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile leadership

Risk & forecasting

Account growth

Tools

SOW drafting

Job description

Parallax in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Delivery Manager to lead complex digital engagements across AI, IoT, and web applications for a diverse client portfolio. You will steer delivery across multiple teams, ensuring clarity, risk management, and value delivery.

You will build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, shape delivery strategies, and mentor teams to raise standards. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery in a consultancy environment.