Delivery Lead (12 Month Contract)

Delivery Lead Location: East Coast (NY/NJ, Atlanta, Charlotte, or South Florida) Duration: 12 months + Who We Are AND Digital is a tech company dedicated to accelerating digital delivery and closing the digital skills gap. Since 2014, we have supported organisations in building better digital products and stronger digital teams. We believe our work should always create a remarkable impact for our clients. Through our regional offices, known as ‘Clubs,’ we build strong relationships with our partners, ensuring they are prioritised by teams located nearby. This unique model has driven success for both our clients and ourselves, reflected in our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today, we are over 1,300 people strong, with Clubs across the UK, Europe, and the USA—and plans for global expansion in the coming years. Join us and help fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap. Delivery of Outcomes Own and drive end‑to‑end delivery of complex initiatives from planning to execution to ongoing optimisation to ensure realisation of target outcomes. Ensure predictable, timely, and high‑quality delivery of outcomes aligned with business priorities. Manage dependencies, risks, and constraints across squads, platforms, and stakeholders to ensure smooth execution. Own delivery planning, sequencing, milestones, and execution tracking across teams. Ensure a clear path to production, including operational readiness and post‑release follow‑up. Cross‑discipline collaboration to ensure delivery plans are realistic, prioritised, and executable. Improve delivery processes and tooling to reduce execution friction through the application of GenAI tools. Assurance Proactively identify delivery risks and issues that may impact timelines, scope, quality or cost. Drive mitigation plans and escalations when necessary to ensure delivery and outcome commitments are met. Resolve execution blockers by coordinating across teams and leadership. Metrics and Reporting Track and report delivery metrics such as progress against outcomes, milestones, dependencies, predictability, lead time, and throughput. Use data‑driven insights to identify delivery bottlenecks and areas for improvement. Provide clear delivery status, risks, and forecasts to senior stakeholders. Create dashboards and reports that give transparency into progress against outcomes and key KPIs. Stakeholder Management Partner with cross‑discipline stakeholders to align delivery / product outcomes with business objectives. Manage stakeholder expectations through clear communication, transparency, and realistic planning. Foster collaboration across squads while maintaining delivery accountability. Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness, execution models, and ways of working. Support teams in refining processes to improve efficiency, quality, and predictability. Apply lessons learned from delivery outcomes to improve future execution. Inspire Others Remain hands on by championing and influencing the delivery direction of engagements being led by yourself or the Club (your business unit). Provide delivery guidance and advice to clients; being able to observe the problems closely and propose applicable solutions. Coach, mentor and develop high‑performing teams through implementing delivery methods and adopting the behaviours associated with high performance. Give and encourage regular feedback to drive the professional development of ANDis within your Club. Lead, develop and support the Delivery community in your Club and within AND through our Technology Strategy and Organisation Practice Group (community for our practitioners to come together and collaborate). What you’ll bring to the table 8-10+ years senior consulting experience gained at a recognised professional services organisation. Breadth and depth of consulting experience in delivering large‑scale and complex initiatives ideally across a range of disciplines including cloud and data. Strong understanding and experience of a variety of agile delivery and project management methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, Nexus). Comfortable in guiding multiple teams in delivery of outcomes and navigating the complexities of multi‑vendor environments. Experience in defining AI delivery strategies that includes governance, ethics, and productivity benchmarks to optimise the product lifecycle and team effectiveness. Proven ability to influence and manage executive‑level stakeholders, bridging the gap between high‑level business strategy and on‑the‑ground digital delivery. Strong commercial acumen supported with practical experience in building investment cases, statements of work and MSAs. Proven track record of account growth and commercial ownership, including the ability to identify opportunities, shaping commercial deals (e.g. outcome based) and influencing stakeholders on approach and outcome. Why join AND Digital? We have three core values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem‑solving. By joining AND, we’ll provide: Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and produce meaningful work that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives. A “Blended Working” model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery. The benefits of having a small company feel through being part of an autonomous Club, while being able to take in the benefits of a larger organisation. A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self. A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself. Equal Opportunities Statement At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team. #J-18808-Ljbffr AND Digital