Associate Delivery Manager

Description

The team delivers mission-critical programmes for defence, national security and government customers.

You would join the Delivery Team and work with experienced Delivery Managers, technical specialists and customer stakeholders.

The role gives you exposure to the whole project lifecycle and a route into senior delivery and project leadership.

Responsibilities

• Help plan, coordinate and deliver projects in customer-facing and internal programmes.
• Follow progress with Delivery Managers and project teams, keep actions moving and support milestone delivery.
• Contribute to governance, including reporting, risk and issue handling, and financial tracking and forecasting.
• Form working relationships with customers, delivery teams and business stakeholders.
• Support Agile and Lean ways of working, encouraging collaboration and steady improvement.
• Spot delivery blockers and help clear them, keeping project records accurate and current.

Requirements

• Essential: Experience supporting projects, programmes or operational delivery in a professional setting.
• Essential: Strong organisation, with the ability to juggle several priorities and workstreams.
• Essential: Clear communication and confident engagement with stakeholders.
• Essential: Interest in project management, delivery management and continuous improvement methods.
• Essential: Experience with collaboration and productivity tools such as Microsoft Office, Teams, Jira, Confluence or similar.
• Essential: A proactive attitude, eager to learn, grow and take ownership of tasks.
• Desirable: Experience in Agile, Scrum, Lean or project delivery environments.
• Desirable: Knowledge of project governance, RAID management, forecasting or resource planning.
• Desirable: Understanding of commercial delivery, contracts or financial management processes.
• Desirable: Experience in defence, national security, government or other highly regulated environments.
• Desirable: Qualifications held or in progress, such as PRINCE2 Foundation, AgilePM, APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or an equivalent.
• Candidates who do not meet every requirement are still encouraged to apply.

Conditions

You must currently hold the highest UK Government security clearance.

UK citizenship is required for this role.

Travel is required, about 10% of the time.

No relocation assistance is offered.

Hybrid working is available.

A compressed fortnight pattern applies, with every other Friday off.

The company welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities.

Benefits

• Private healthcare, dental cover, life assurance and a pension.
• Flexible benefits, including critical illness cover and a health cash plan.
• A holiday buy and sell scheme.
• An annual performance incentive programme.
• Professional development and career progression.
• Training, mentoring and development programmes.
• Opportunities in STEM outreach, volunteering and employee networks.