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Location: Wilmslow, UK (Full time office-based)

Salary: This is a senior leadership role and remuneration will reflect experience, scope and impact.

FastDox is a B2B SaaS company serving customers globally, with operations across the UK and Canada. We build and deliver software that helps organisations run critical, document-driven processes faster and more reliably.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who can lead and scale an entire delivery function – spanning engineering, configuration/implementation and technical support – rather than a traditional “projects only” delivery position. The Senior Head of Delivery has direct line management responsibility for the Head of Development, Head of Projects / Implementation and Service Desk leadership.

The Senior Head of Delivery will report jointly to the Commercial Director and the CEO, working closely with both on delivery execution, commercial commitments and company-wide priorities. The Commercial Director and CEO together oversee FastDox’s commercial and product operations, client commitments and strategic direction.

This role plays a critical part in ensuring that what FastDox sells, promises and positions in the market is delivered reliably and at scale.

• A predictable release and go-live engine.
• A tight operating rhythm with Commercial so what we commit to is what we deliver.
• A scalable, multi-disciplinary delivery function that you will shape, mature and grow over the coming years.

This is a genuine opportunity to take ownership of the whole function, define how it operates, and lead it into its next stage of maturity.

1. Lead the delivery organisation
   • Bring Engineering and Implementation/Professional Services together under one delivery umbrella, with close alignment to Service Desk / Technical Support.
   • Provide senior leadership across software engineering, configuration/implementation and operational delivery.
   • Hire, coach and develop managers and individual contributors across these disciplines.
   • Set clear expectations and build a healthy, accountable delivery culture focused on outcomes, not bureaucracy.
2. Run the operating cadence
   • Own delivery planning, prioritisation and capacity forecasting across build + implementation (and associated support impacts).
   • Run weekly delivery/ops rhythms (planning, risk reviews, release readiness, retrospectives/post-mortems).
   • Create clarity on commitments, milestones, dependencies and trade-offs so teams know what “good” looks like.
3. Bridge Commercial ↔ Delivery
   • Act as the primary delivery counterpart to the Commercial Director, owning delivery actions, priorities and follow-ups arising from commercial commitments.
   • Translate sales and commercial commitments into executable delivery plans (scope, timeline, resourcing, risks and assumptions).
   • Improve commercial-to-delivery handovers and reduce scope churn and rework.
   • Shape commercial commitments earlier in the sales cycle so FastDox sells what it can reliably deliver.
   • Provide clear, regular delivery updates, forecasts and escalation visibility to the Commercial Director, particularly where timelines, client delivery or revenue are impacted.
4. Improve engineering execution & reliability (pragmatic, not bureaucratic)
   • Strengthen release management and release readiness.
   • Improve quality and reliability through sensible controls (definition of done, QA gates, incident management, root-cause fixes).
   • Reduce escaped defects and firefighting by improving the system—not just reacting.
   • Use data and operational metrics to continuously refine how engineering delivers.
5. Scale implementation outcomes
   • Build repeatable implementation playbooks (intake → discovery → configuration/integration → QA → go-live → handover).
   • Improve implementation cycle time, predictability and customer satisfaction.
   • Ensure implementation feedback informs product and engineering prioritisation.
6. Oversee support / service desk impact
   • Provide leadership oversight of Service Desk / Technical Support in the context of releases and implementations.
   • Ensure incident trends and support tickets inform product, engineering and implementation improvements.
   • Help shape SLAs, escalation paths and “run” processes so customers experience a reliable, professional service post go-live.

• Delivery forecasts become trustworthy (fewer surprises, clearer trade-offs).
• Releases land predictably and calmly, with fewer high-severity incidents.
• Implementations become more repeatable and scalable; cycle time improves.
• Commercial commitments are shaped earlier, with stronger alignment and fewer escalations.
• Support / service desk noise from releases and implementations reduces, with clearer ownership and better root-cause fixes.
• The delivery function feels more cohesive: engineering, implementation and support pulling in the same direction.

This role is not just traditional delivery or project management. It’s a blend of:

• Senior leadership across engineering/development/support.
• Configuration and project implementation / professional services experience.
• Operational leadership and delivery governance.
• Service desk / technical support oversight and incident-oriented thinking.

• Previous roles such as Head of Delivery, Delivery Director, Head of Engineering Delivery, Professional Services Director, Technical Operations or a similar hybrid technical/operational leadership position.
• Experience overseeing multiple disciplines (e.g. engineering + implementation/professional services + technical support).
• 7–12+ years in relevant environments, with at least 3–5 years in a senior leadership role owning teams and outcomes, not just individual projects.

• Proven leadership across software engineering delivery and customer implementation / professional services (B2B SaaS strongly preferred).
• Strong people leadership: team building, developing managers, performance management and creating clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Confident stakeholder management with Commercial, Product and senior leadership, including constructively challenging commitments when needed.
• Comfortable with delivery mechanics: prioritisation, capacity planning, release readiness, risk management and trade-off decisions.
• Experience scaling a delivery organisation from reactive to predictable.
• Familiarity with incident management, post-mortems and operational metrics (SLAs, uptime, defect rates, cycle times, etc.).
• Experience with integration-heavy implementations (APIs, SSO, data migrations, complex onboarding).
• Able to balance pragmatism and structure—introducing just enough process to scale without slowing the business down.

You’ll be the senior leader who owns and shapes the entire delivery function at FastDox—engineering delivery, implementation and support—working closely with the Commercial Director and CEO at a pivotal point in the company’s growth.

If you’re looking for a role where you can genuinely:

• Build and lead a multi-disciplinary delivery organisation
• Take something good and make it excellent
• Create the operating model, rhythms and culture that allow teams to thrive

…then this is an environment where you can do your best work and have a long-term impact.