Delivery Manager

Description

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow (hybrid working), are currently looking to recruit a Delivery Manager, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to c.£483/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

Our client are seeking a Delivery Manager to work embedded within their agile delivery team, while operating confidently as part of a wider multi‑team delivery environment.

The role is intentionally hands‑on and outcomes‑driven, with clear accountability for the team’s delivery plan, cadence, and RAID, and for maintaining delivery confidence through transparency, realistic commitments, and proactive risk management.

Responsibilities:

Team‑Level Delivery Ownership

• Own and maintain the team delivery plan, ensuring scope, priorities, milestones, risks, and dependencies are visible, understood, and actively managed.
• Manage RAID at team level, intervening and escalating decisively where risks or issues threaten delivery outcomes.
• Provide delivery confidence through evidence‑based forecasting, metrics, and clear narrative reporting.

Agile Facilitation & Ways of Working

• Facilitate all core agile ceremonies (e.g. stand‑ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives), ensuring they are purposeful, disciplined, and outcome focused.
• Act as the owner of the team’s delivery practices and ways of working, reinforcing agreed approaches and evolving them over time using data and insight to improve delivery effectiveness and efficiency.

Driving Momentum & Addressing Delivery Risk

• Act decisively when delivery momentum is at risk, addressing blockers, inefficiencies, or behaviours that undermine agreed outcomes, and reinforcing accountability for delivery commitments through transparency and follow‑up.
• Maintain a strong focus on delivery outcomes and transparency, while remaining flexible and pragmatic in how solutions are achieved.

Multi‑Team & Portfolio Contribution

• Identify, track, and communicate dependencies with other teams, working collaboratively with peers, the Release Manager, and digital leadership to resolve or escalate where needed.
• Contribute accurate and timely team‑level plans, risks, and forecasts into initiative and portfolio‑level views.
• Engage with other Delivery Managers, Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and Release Management to support alignment.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Communicate clearly and confidently with digital and non‑digital stakeholders.
• Support informed decision‑making by presenting delivery options, trade‑offs, risks, and impacts in a straightforward and evidence‑based way.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Delivery Management

• Demonstrable experience operating as a Delivery Manager (or equivalent), embedded within an agile delivery team and accountable for delivery outcomes.
• Comfortable holding a delivery plan and RAID, not just facilitating process.
• Experienced in driving teams toward outcomes in environments with ambiguity, competing priorities, and evolving scope.

Agile Practice

• Strong practical experience of Scrum, Kanban, or blended agile approaches, applied pragmatically and adapted to context.
• Proven ability to lead agile ceremonies and continuous improvement with intent and challenge.
• A track record of improving team effectiveness, flow, and predictability over time.

Authority & Coaching Balance

• Ability to balance coaching with authority, applying constructive pressure where required to achieve delivery outcomes.
• Comfortable challenging behaviours, assumptions, and practices that undermine effective delivery.

Communication & Judgement

• Strong judgement and decision‑making skills, including the ability to act on incomplete information.
• Confident communicator able to represent the team’s delivery position at different levels of seniority.

Financial & Commercial Awareness

• Awareness of public‑sector delivery contexts, value for money, and budget considerations.
• Able to contribute delivery insight to financial reporting and escalate concerns appropriately

Tooling & Delivery Insight

• Strong experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence, using them to support delivery transparency, forecasting, and continuous improvement.

Team Dynamics

• Proven ability to work effectively with a range of personalities and delivery maturity levels.
• Willing to address delivery‑impacting issues directly and constructively rather than avoiding discomfort.

ASA Recruitment is one of Scotland’s largest independent multi-sector recruitment agencies. We specialise in providing effective tailored solutions for permanent, contract and temporary employment requirements for our Clients and Candidates. We are members of the REC and are ISO certified.

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