Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Salary: £50,900 - £68,000
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with 40-60% of time in the office
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full‑time 35 hours per week
About the role
As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be embedded within a product team in ETO and accountable for enabling effective, predictable delivery. You will ensure there is a timely flow of work and information, support release and risk management, and proactively shape team capability and capacity to meet delivery outcomes.
Working in close partnership with the Product Manager, you will help balance priorities, manage dependencies, and create the conditions for teams to perform at their best. While you will not have direct line management accountability, your influence and leadership will be critical to the success of the team and the wider organisation.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities
* Owning and overseeing release planning and release management, ensuring appropriate controls, approvals, and measures are in place
* Supporting forecasting and cost tracking by inputting into product budgets, including headcount, skills, and third‑party costs
* Proactively identifying, managing, and reporting delivery risks and cross‑team dependencies
* Enabling effective collaboration across product, technical, and operational stakeholders
* Supporting the formation and continuous improvement of delivery teams, encouraging experimentation and learning
* Acting as a senior point of contact for delivery matters within your area of responsibility
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40‑60% of their time collaborating and connecting face‑to‑face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long‑term health condition.
About You
You are an experienced delivery professional who thrives in complex, fast‑moving environments and is comfortable influencing without formal authority.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical knowledge with proven delivery management experience, and who can translate between engineering detail and delivery outcomes.
Minimum requirements
* Experience working in agile delivery teams, using Scrum and/or Kanban
* Experience leading or enabling software delivery teams
* Strong stakeholder and customer management capabilities
* Working knowledge of release management and risk management
* Experience working in cross‑functional, distributed teams, including onshore and offshore collaboration
* Excellent communication and facilitation skills
Desirable criteria
* A data‑driven and probabilistic approach to delivery management
* Strong experience managing dependencies and reducing delivery risk
* A passion for continuous improvement, learning, and experimentation
* Confidence running workshops, ceremonies, and large group sessions
* Experience empowering teams and supporting decentralised decision‑making
Rewards and benefits
* 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Group personal pension scheme
* Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
* Green travel schemes
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long‑term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long‑term health condition.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
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