Delivery Lead (Change & Transformation)
Delivery Lead (Change & Transformation) | Circa £700 P/D (Inside IR35) | 6 Month Contract | Fully Remote | Financial Services
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Delivery Transformation Lead to drive transformational change and evolve delivery capabilities across a complex business environment.
This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for leading a team of Project Managers, modernising delivery practices, and embedding high-performing ways of working that enable successful business change. You will play a pivotal role in connecting strategic objectives with effective execution, ensuring programmes and projects deliver measurable business value.
This opportunity is ideal for a passionate delivery leader who enjoys building capability, influencing senior stakeholders, and leading teams through transformational change.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Delivery Transformation
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
We are looking for someone who is:
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Delivery Transformation Lead to drive transformational change and evolve delivery capabilities across a complex business environment.
This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for leading a team of Project Managers, modernising delivery practices, and embedding high-performing ways of working that enable successful business change. You will play a pivotal role in connecting strategic objectives with effective execution, ensuring programmes and projects deliver measurable business value.
This opportunity is ideal for a passionate delivery leader who enjoys building capability, influencing senior stakeholders, and leading teams through transformational change.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Delivery Transformation
- Drive the evolution and modernisation of project delivery practices.
- Champion agile principles, Value Stream and Feature Team approaches, and innovative ways of working.
- Develop and embed delivery frameworks, methodologies, tools, and governance standards.
- Ensure delivery approaches are tailored to the complexity and nature of change initiatives.
- Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a team of Project Managers.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence.
- Ensure the team has the skills, behaviours, and mindset required to deliver successful outcomes.
- Create development opportunities that support both individual and team growth.
- Align change delivery activity with organisational strategy and business objectives.
- Translate strategic ambition into successful delivery outcomes and benefits realisation.
- Oversee resource planning and allocation across multiple projects and programmes.
- Drive delivery performance through effective governance, reporting, and continuous improvement.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.
- Influence and engage senior leaders to support successful change delivery.
- Provide clear and transparent reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
- Ensure appropriate risk management and mitigation strategies are in place across delivery portfolios.
- Promote a culture of learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Embed best practice project and programme management approaches.
- Drive lessons learned activities and ensure continual enhancement of delivery capability.
- Support the adoption of modern delivery methodologies and practices across the wider business.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
- Proven experience building, leading, and transforming Project Management or Delivery functions.
- A successful track record in senior change, transformation, or delivery leadership roles.
- Experience working within Agile environments, including Product and Value Stream delivery models.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at executive and leadership levels.
- Experience implementing project governance, assurance frameworks, and delivery standards.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
- Experience applying a range of delivery methodologies including Agile, Lean, PRINCE2, and APM.
- Experience operating within a regulated environment.
- A passion for developing people and creating high-performing teams.
- A strong commitment to continuous improvement and evolving delivery best practice.
We are looking for someone who is:
- An inspiring and credible leader.
- Skilled at leading teams through organisational change.
- Strategic in thinking but pragmatic in execution.
- A strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
- Highly influential and able to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Proactive, resilient, and solutions-focused.
- Commercially aware and outcome-driven.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Passionate about delivery excellence and transformation.
- PRINCE2 and/or APM accreditation would be advantageous but is not essential.
- Equivalent project or programme management qualifications and practical experience will also be considered.