Lead Delivery Manager

Lead Delivery Manager

£80,000 per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

This is a leadership role, supporting the Service Owner, and focused on bringing together service operations, policy, strategy, suppliers and technical teams to the service meets user needs and delivers its intended policy outcomes. Working as one team across these disciplines, you will help ensure the service is safe, resilient and well run, and that it keeps improving over time.

The role is accountable for the safe, stable and effective operation of the service, and responsible for maintaining grip across change, readiness and performance, ensuring that business priorities are translated into clear, coordinated activity across the ecosystem.

You will provide oversight of how the service roadmap is planned, governed and landed, making sure the right people are aligned, the right decisions are taken at the right time, and the service remains stable and responsive as it evolves.

Success in this role will depend on judgement, coordination and leadership across organisational boundaries, with a strong focus on service outcomes, accountability and operational confidence.

Job description

Delivery Leadership

Transition and Operationalisation

• Establish the new Pensions Dashboards Service into business as usual within MaPS, ensuring accountabilities, controls and ways of working are clearly established, following the transition from programme delivery.
• Operationalise the agreed operating model and ways of working, turning defined processes, controls and operating arrangements into a working, well-run operation
• Ensure the service is ready for live running, with the right people, processes and assurance in place before and through go-live

Lead delivery across a multi-team service

• Provide clear coordination across service teams, and suppliers to ensure the service operates as a coherent whole
• Set up and run delivery rhytms that fit with a live service with continuous improvement
• Maintain oversight of priorities, dependencies and delivery confidence across the ecosystem
• Ensure business needs are translated into coordinated actions that support a stable and effective live service

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as a key point of alignment across multiple teams and delivery partners, helping the organisation operate with clarity and control
• Support effective working relationships across internal functions, external suppliers, regulators and wider stakeholders
• Create the conditions for informed decisions, timely escalation and shared accountability across the service

Change Readiness and Service Stability

• Make sure all change is planned, tested and landed without disrupting users, including releases, regulatory and policy changes, and new connections
• Work closely with Service Operations and other leaders to make sure changes land safely and sustainably into live service

Planning, Prioritisation and Dec...

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