Lead Delivery Manager

Lead Delivery Manager

Location: Asda House

Employment Type: Full time

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Salary: Competitive salary plus benefits

Category: Project and Program Management – SF

Closing Date: 29 June 2026

Please be advised that this position requires attendance at Asda House in Leeds for a minimum of three days per week.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking part-time hours, flexible working arrangements, or job share opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and manage a team of Delivery Managers, setting clear expectations and supporting their development.
• Own and oversee delivery across multiple workstreams and portfolios, ensuring alignment to business priorities and outcomes.
• Establish and embed standardised ways of working across delivery, ensuring consistency and quality.
• Provide oversight of delivery plans, progress, risks, and dependencies across the team.
• Identify and manage cross-portfolio risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring they are proactively mitigated.
• Act as the escalation point for complex delivery challenges and drive resolution.
• Engage with senior stakeholders across business and technology to ensure alignment and confidence in delivery.
• Ensure strong collaboration across cross-functional teams including engineering, product, QA, and operations.
• Oversee vendor and third-party delivery performance and relationships.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, tooling, and reporting.
• Ensure solutions meet technical, security, governance, and compliance standards.
• Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement within the team.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Delivery or Project Management within complex technology environments.
• Proven experience leading and developing delivery teams.
• Ability to oversee multiple workstreams while maintaining attention to detail.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior leaders.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with delivery tools such as Jira and MS Project.
• Experience managing vendors and third-party suppliers.
• A continuous improvement mindset and focus on driving better ways of working.

Benefits

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• Company Car allowance of 5,700
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

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