Hybrid Senior Delivery Manager

at Burendo

• Job title: Senior Delivery Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Azure, ServiceNow
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leeds, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Delivery Manager supporting delivery teams using Agile methodologies at our award-winning consultancy. Empowering organisations to deliver outstanding customer experiences through technology.

Responsibilities

• We’re looking to hire an experienced Senior Delivery Manager on a permanent basis to join our growing team. You’ll be a key member of our consultancy team and will find yourself supporting delivery teams as they deliver using Agile methodologies.

Requirements

• __**Must have skills**__
• **Portfolio management** – End-to-end delivery ownership of multiple complex technical workstreams working to time, cost, quality and scope.
• **Agile methodologies** - A comprehensive understanding of Agile principles and practices and the ability to coach and uplift teams
• **Risk management** - The ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks before they become issues across complex delivery landscapes. Know when to escalate.
• **Dependency management** - Exceptional skill at mapping and managing dependencies across teams, workstreams, and external factors in the most complex scenarios
• **Forecasting** - Extensive experience creating and maintaining strategic roadmaps that balance ambition with reality, often across multiple large initiatives
• **Prioritisation** - Excellent judgement in helping teams focus on what matters most and deliver maximum value, even in highly ambiguous and complex situations
• **Stakeholder management** - Outstanding at building relationships and managing expectations across diverse and senior stakeholder groups at all levels
• **Transparency** - Extensive hands-on experience in Jira, and with a proven ability to rapidly adapt to and utilise alternative delivery and service management tools (e.g. ServiceNow, Azure DevOps). Skilled in producing and presenting high-quality reporting and insight packs to support transparency and governance.
• **Communication skills** - Clear, empathetic, and effective communication across all levels, from technical teams to C-suite, with the ability to influence at the highest levels
• **Conflict resolution** - The ability to navigate complex disagreements constructively
• **Multitasking** – Skilled at managing multiple concurrent workstreams and priorities while maintaining quality, focus, and alignment across teams and stakeholders.
• **Team morale bolstering** – A supportive leader who fosters motivation, cohesion, and resilience, ensuring teams stay engaged and perform at their best even under pressure.
• __**Desirable**__
• Public sector experience
• Consultancy experience

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• An additional day of paid leave for your birthday
• Monthly budget for you to spend on your wellbeing
• Annual Learning and Development budget
• Paid time off for life events
• Matched Employer Contributed Pension (5%)
• Life assurance based on 2 x your salary, increasing to 4 x upon 2 years' service
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced company sick pay
• Exciting calendar of Burendo social events and activities