Senior Delivery Manager
Senior Delivery Manager
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Location: London, 3 days on site required
Duration: 6-month contract
Rate: £800.00 - £900.00 via umbrella
The Role
As Senior Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of complex technology initiatives, with a primary focus on a portfolio of AI, innovation, and automation programmes. You will oversee delivery from initiation through to completion, ensuring projects deliver clear business value and align with strategic, regulatory, and governance requirements.
This role requires strong delivery leadership, the ability to navigate structured approval processes, and confidence engaging with a wide range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technology initiatives
- Manage a portfolio of AI, innovation, and automation projects, balancing priorities and dependencies
- Work closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to define scope, outcomes, and delivery plans
- Develop and maintain delivery plans, schedules, and budgets
- Identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks and issues
- Ensure adherence to internal governance, assessment, and approval processes
- Manage financial tracking, forecasting, and budget control across initiatives
- Provide clear, regular updates to senior stakeholders on progress, risks, and outcomes
- Encourage continuous improvement and innovative delivery approaches
- Support knowledge sharing and capability development within the wider team
Skills & Experience
- Strong background in technology delivery within regulated or complex environments
- Proven ability to deliver multiple initiatives concurrently
- Experience delivering SaaS-based solutions and supporting cloud migration programmes
- Good understanding of AI and automation technologies and their business applications
- Familiarity with DevOps ways of working and CI/CD pipelines
- Confident managing governance, RAID, scheduling, and reporting
- Experience using delivery and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and MS Project
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered please click the "apply" button.
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