Delivery Manager

Job summary

East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber.

We're looking for a Delivery Manager to lead the successful delivery of Finance digital initiatives, ensuring teams are focused on delivering valuable outcomes through agile and user-centred approaches.

You'll work at the heart of multidisciplinary teams, bringing together business stakeholders, technical specialists and users to turn ideas into deliverable solutions. The role requires someone who can manage priorities, remove blockers, facilitate effective decision-making and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams. You'll champion continuous improvement and help ensure digital products and services are delivered in a way that is pragmatic, efficient and aligned to business needs.

Job description

As a Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of Finance digital initiatives, ensuring work is effectively prioritised, planned and delivered through agile ways of working.

You will act as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders, requestors and technical teams, managing expectations and maintaining clear communication throughout the delivery lifecycle. Working closely with Business Analysts and technical colleagues, you will help shape and refine requirements, ensuring teams have a clear understanding of scope, priorities and desired outcomes.

A key aspect of the role is supporting discovery activities, facilitating discussions with stakeholders and helping define minimum viable products (MVPs) that maximise value while maintaining delivery pace. You will oversee delivery from initiation through to implementation, coordinating activities, managing dependencies and ensuring risks and issues are identified and addressed early.

You will lead and facilitate agile delivery practices, including planning sessions, reviews, retrospectives and prioritisation activities, helping teams continuously improve the way they work. Working collaboratively across a wide range of stakeholders, you will ensure delivery decisions are evidence-based, priorities remain aligned to business objectives and teams stay focused on achieving outcomes rather than outputs.

The role requires excellent stakeholder management skills, strong organisational capability and the ability to balance competing priorities while maintaining momentum and delivering high-quality results.

Person specification

We are looking for someone with strong delivery management experience and a proven track record of leading digital or business change initiatives within agile environments. You'll be confident working with senior stakeholders, technical teams and end users, ensuring delivery remains focused on achieving measurable business outcomes.

Essential

• Experience leading the delivery of digital, technology or business change initiatives within agile environments.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery methodologies, including discovery, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Experience managing work through prioritised backlogs and coordinating delivery across multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and build consensus.
• Experience identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies to support successful delivery outcomes.
• Strong facilitation skills, with the ability to lead discussions, drive decisions and maintain delivery momentum.
• Experience producing delivery plans, status updates and forecasts to support effective decision-making.
• Ability to remove blockers, solve problems and support teams in achieving delivery objectives.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Desirable (not to be assessed)

• Experience delivering digital transformation or service improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of MVP-based delivery approaches and iterative product development.
• Experience working with Finance, corporate services or business-focused digital teams.
• Understanding of governance, assurance, data management or compliance requirements within digital delivery.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams that include Business Analysts, developers and technical specialists.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £58,207, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £16,862 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97

As a full-time new entrant to the Civil Service, or a Civil Servant on modernised terms and conditions, you will be entitled to 25 days’ annual leave (rising, over 5 years, to 30 days). If you are an existing Civil Servant on pre-modernised terms, these will remain the same.

In addition, you will receive 8 public holidays a year, plus an additional day in May to mark the King’s Birthday.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement and behaviour statements.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Sift

Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the lead behaviour Making Effective Decisions. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

Interview

At interview, candidates will be assessed against the relevant behaviours and experience required for the role.

Your interview will either be conducted face to face or by video. You will be notified of the location if you are selected for interview.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Location

We are flexible on location and welcome applicati