Lead Agile Delivery Manager

Lead Agile Delivery Manager – 6-month contract – Inside IR35 – £550 per day – Newcastle – BPSS Clearance Required

One of Harvey Nash’s clients is looking for a Lead Agile Delivery Manager to join their team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery across complex digital programmes and multidisciplinary teams.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and programme leadership.
• Drive effective governance, reporting, dependency management and risk mitigation.
• Develop and maintain delivery roadmaps, plans and forecasts.
• Provide delivery assurance and clear insight to senior decision‑makers.
• Coach and mentor Delivery Managers, Senior Delivery Managers and Scrum Masters.
• Identify opportunities to improve delivery performance, capability and maturity.
• Support collaboration across multiple teams, suppliers and workstreams.

Essential

• Significant experience operating at SFIA Level 6 within Delivery Management.
• Leading multidisciplinary digital delivery teams in complex environments.
• Senior stakeholder engagement and management.
• Delivery governance, RAID management and dependency management.
• Roadmap planning, prioritisation, forecasting and reporting.
• Experience working within government, regulated or similarly complex organisations.
• Coaching and developing delivery professionals.
• Driving continuous improvement across teams and programmes.

Desirable

• Strong expertise in Kanban and flow‑based delivery management.
• Experience using delivery metrics including WIP, lead time, cycle time and throughput analysis.
• Practical application of Monte Carlo forecasting and confidence‑based planning techniques.
• Experience using Jira, Actionable Agile or similar tooling for forecasting and delivery insight.
• Coaching teams on forecasting, metrics and flow‑based delivery approaches.
• Experience supporting executive governance forums and high‑profile transformation programmes.

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