Senior Delivery Manager

Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager Salary: £50,900 - £68,000 Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time 35 hours per week Are you passionate about agile delivery and enabling teams to deliver impactful, data-driven outcomes? We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We're looking for an experienced Senior Delivery Manager to join our growing team and help lead the delivery of enterprise data, transformation, and visualisation products and services. In this pivotal role, you'll work within a product‑focused, cross‑functional team delivering application and enterprise‑level data capabilities, including data warehousing, transformation, reporting, and insight solutions. You'll foster a culture of continuous improvement, enable a high‑performing team, and help shape the delivery approach across a complex technology landscape. About the role What you will do: Champion agile values and principles, acting as a role model for collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement, and servant leadership. Lead and support a cross‑functional team delivering data and digital capabilities in a complex enterprise environment. Facilitate effective delivery through strong planning, dependency management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Help teams optimise flow, improve predictability, and continuously improve ways of working. Own and support release and delivery management processes, ensuring robust governance and successful product launches. Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Technical leads to support prioritisation, road‑mapping, budgeting, and strategic planning. Build strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders across the organisation. Work closely with Service Delivery Managers to ensure effective operational management of live services, including incident, problem, and change management considerations. Ensure technical debt, platform stability, resilience, and operational sustainability are appropriately represented in planning and prioritisation. Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery impediments across teams and workstreams. Coach and support the development of colleagues and contribute to the evolution of agile delivery practices across the organisation. About You Proven experience leading agile delivery within cross‑functional technology teams using Scrum, Kanban, or scaled agile approaches. Strong understanding of agile principles, lean delivery practices, and continuous improvement. Experience delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or transformation initiatives in enterprise environments. Strong leadership and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence and motivate teams without direct line management responsibility. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem‑solving skills. A data‑informed mindset, with a focus on outcomes, experimentation, learning, and delivering measurable value. Experience working closely with engineering, architecture, product, and operational teams. If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria: Experience delivering enterprise data warehousing, data transformation, BI, analytics, or visualisation solutions. Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems. Familiarity with operational service management practices and ITIL environments. Rewards and Benefits 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance Discretionary annual bonus Group personal pension scheme Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary Green travel schemes We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long‑term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long‑term health condition. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

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