Senior Delivery Manager

Are you a digital delivery expert looking to make their mark on one of the UK's largest health charities?

Join our team as our Senior Delivery Manager and lead digital projects within one of the UK's largest health charities.

About the role

As our Senior Delivery Manager, you'll lead and embed new processes and procedures across four scrum teams within Digital Services, delivering multiple complex projects. You'll manage resources to ensure projects are delivered on time, and to a high standard. You'll oversee multi-disciplinary teams and help shape, imbed and optimise project delivery processes to increase our speed to market. You'll lead the teams to deliver improvements to our CMS customer journeys effectively and efficiently.

Working closely with our Head of Product and Head of Data Engineering and Scrum Masters, you'll assign and prioritise resource across the team, optimising our delivery workflows, providing delivery management data and managing multiple deadlines and deliver on key cross-scrum initiatives.

You'll bring experience of delivery management using Agile at scale, acting as a Jira expert with demonstrable experience of managing complex software release schedules across multiple teams.

Working arrangements

Please note, this is an 18-month fixed term contract.

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office.

At BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you'll have:

Significant experience of managing multiple scrum teams
Significant experience of embedding new processes, such as release management, project resourcing and reporting workflows
Bring significant and hands on experience of Jira, able to optimise workflows using multiple tools
Excellent understanding of enterprise CMS
Demonstrable experience of overseeing and delivering complex projects, as well as an understanding of project management methodologies including Waterfall, Agile and Lean techniques.
Able to translate user requirements into technical solutions, balancing multiple priorities, managing ambiguity and delivering results to deadline and budget.
Effective communication and influencing skills, able to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders and external partners.
With a strong visionary mindset, you'll be a change advocate who sees the bigger picture and can identify and track dependencies across diverse projects.

Our work is fundamental to the health of the nation with an impact globally, so we require a world-class Technology team. If you have the skills and experience, we're looking for, then we want to hear from you!

About us

We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Interview process

1st stage interviews will be held via MS Teams. 2nd stage interviews will be in person, at our London offices, and incorporate a short presentation task.

How to apply

It's quick and easy to apply for a role at BHF. Just click through to our careers site to apply. All you'll need is an up to date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role's criteria.

As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, the BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.