Senior Delivery Manager

Hybrid working: 2 days per month in the office in London

We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager with a strong background in retail with experience in integrating legacy and mainframe applications into modern WMS platforms, managing large offshore delivery teams through third-party SIs and maintaining rigorous financial discipline across a multi-million pound workstream budget.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned workstreams, managing scope, schedule, risks, issues and dependencies to agreed milestones.
• Maintain a clear and current delivery plan, proactively identifying and escalating blockers before they impact programme timelines.
• Take full accountability for the workstream budget, including ongoing forecasting, variance tracking and financial reporting.
• Operate in a high-visibility environment with exposure to senior leadership, represent the workstream confidently in programme-level forums and governance meetings.
• Lead day-to-day coordination of multiple third-party system integrators operating across different geographies and time zones.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Delivery Manager on large-scale application integration programmes, specifically integrating legacy or mainframe systems into modern platforms.
• Demonstrable experience with Azure and mainframe application environments.
• Direct experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
• Retail, FMCG, supply chain, logistics or distribution sector background.
• Strong financial acumen with hands-on experience managing programme budgets in the range of £1M+, including forecasting, PO raising, actuals tracking and finance tracker ownership.
• Proven track record coordinating multiple third-party system integrators and managing predominantly offshore delivery teams.
• Primary delivery experience in Waterfall, with working knowledge of Agile sufficient to manage third parties operating in that framework.

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