Delivery Manager

  • Manpower Group (UK)
  • 15/05/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Delivery Manager - Specialist Housing & Care

Homebased - with occasional travel to London/Bradford

About the Role

We're looking for a Delivery Manager to drive the successful delivery of projects and workstreams across a complex, regulated organisation. This is a hands on delivery role responsible for ensuring work is well planned, controlled and coordinated, bringing together Design, Digital, Data, Change Enablement and operational teams within an award winning not for profit Specialist Housing and Care organisation. You will play a key role in ensuring delivery is predictable, transparent and supports both operational continuity and successful change adoption.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Lead delivery of assigned projects/workstreams, maintaining clear plans, milestones and delivery rhythms
  • Apply consistent PMO standards to ensure delivery is controlled, auditable and aligned to programme expectations
  • Manage RAID, dependencies and progress reporting with accuracy and discipline
  • Partner with Product Owners to maintain clarity of scope, priorities and backlog readiness
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies (stand ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives)
  • Coordinate across multi disciplinary teams, ensuring alignment and effective sequencing
  • Proactively manage risks, issues and dependencies, escalating early with clear recommendations
  • Provide insightful, timely reporting to support decision making and governance
What We're Looking For
  • Proven experience delivering projects or workstreams in complex, multi disciplinary environments
  • Strong understanding of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery approaches
  • Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and sprint delivery
  • Solid knowledge of planning, scheduling and RAID management (including Microsoft Project)
  • Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills across technical and operational teams
  • Track record of producing high quality, reliable delivery reporting
Desirable
  • Delivery qualification (e.g. APM, PRINCE2 Foundation)
  • Agile certification (e.g. Scrum Master, SAFe)
Apply Now

If you're passionate about delivering complex change efficiently and safely, and thrive in fast paced, collaborative environments - we'd love to hear from you.