Delivery Manager

About Summize

We're an ambitious legal tech scale-up on a mission to get entire businesses working faster and smarter with contracts. With offices in Manchester (UK), Boston, and San Diego (US), we're growing fast and making big things happen on both sides of the Atlantic. Five years of consistent growth. A product people love. A culture built around personal development and doing great work. That's Summize.

The Role

As Delivery Manager at Summize, you’ll be the connective tissue across our product, engineering, DevOps, and customer-facing teams keeping delivery moving without adding unnecessary process overhead. This is the first Delivery Manager role here so we need somebody who is keen to embrace a big opportunity and carve out this role from the ground up! This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and knows how to get things done.

What You'll Be Doing

• Coordinate cross-functional delivery across product, engineering and DevOps
• Drive execution of initiatives from planning through implementation and release.
• Manage dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines.
• Facilitate lightweight planning, progress tracking, and stakeholder communication without excessive process overhead.
• Identify and remove blockers to maintain delivery momentum.
• Support development teams in improving ways of working, operational efficiency, and decision-making.
• Ability to be pragmatic when applying Delivery Management methodologies and techniques. We aren't looking for an Agile evangelist we need someone who knows what will work and when.
• Provide clear reporting on delivery status, risks, and outcomes to leadership.
• Balance speed, quality, and business impact in a rapidly changing environment.

What We're Looking For

• Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills.
• A natural ability to create structure and order out of chaos.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and adapt quickly to changing priorities. You thrive when things are busy and can bring calm and direction without slowing the team down.
• A low-ego, collaborative style with high levels of emotional intelligence.
• Ability to build trust and confidence in others and actively create space for quieter voices to be heard, you bring people with you rather than leading from the front.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Strong understanding of technology delivery processes including and cross-functional collaboration, including the relative benefits of Kanban, Scrum, XP, and other methodologies. Agile Certification is preferred!

What We Offer

• 26 days holiday plus flexible bank holidays (increasing by one holiday for each year of service, up to a maximum of 30 days)
• Healthcare cash plan with Simply Health
• Access to several health care services, including free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Cycle to Work and Tech Scheme
• Access to discounts on things like travel, electronics, fashion, fitness and more
• Rich learning and development opportunities supported through Udemy Business
• City centre offices with fantastic perks, fully stocked fridge providing soft drinks and complimentary breakfast
• Work from anywhere after one year of employment
• Employee share option scheme
• Regular social activities and events
• Opportunity to be a part of one of Manchester’s hottest tech scale ups

We understand the value of having a diversity of identities, backgrounds and thinking within our company so we’re open to hearing from applicants who don’t yet tick all the boxes. If that’s you, please accompany your application with short summary explaining how you’d close the gap on the skills you don’t yet have.

Looking for a role where you can really make a difference? We’d love to hear from you and tell you more about this exciting opportunity at Summize.