English & Exams (E&E) | Product, Delivery & Governance
Location: Hybrid – Onsite 3 days a week
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Delivery Lead to join our English & Exams Product Delivery team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful delivery of digital products and projects while fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.
As a Delivery Lead, you will be accountable for the health, flow, and performance of multidisciplinary product and project teams. You will help teams deliver value at a sustainable pace by removing blockers, facilitating effective delivery practices, and enabling high‑performing ways of working.
Working with stakeholders, product teams, and technology specialists across multiple countries and time zones, you will champion Agile and Lean principles whilst remaining pragmatic in your approach, selecting the most effective delivery framework for each situation.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own the end-to-end delivery of assigned digital products and projects.
- Establish and maintain effective delivery practices that enable teams to deliver value predictably and efficiently.
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean events to ensure alignment, clarity, and momentum.
- Identify delivery risks, issues, and blockers and work proactively with stakeholders to resolve them.
- Manage dependencies across teams and functions to ensure timely delivery outcomes.
- Optimise delivery flow, reduce lead times, and improve team effectiveness.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven experience delivering digital products, technology initiatives, or software projects within Agile environments.
- Strong knowledge and practical experience of Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall delivery approaches.
- Experience managing complex products or projects involving multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
- Demonstrable servant leadership experience, coaching teams towards high performance and self‑organisation.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including engaging senior leaders, business users, PMOs, and third‑party suppliers.
- Experience using delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Planner, or equivalent.
- Deep understanding of Kanban metrics including Lead Time, Cycle Time, and Throughput, with the ability to use data to drive improvement.
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