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Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Salary: £49,000 - £65,000
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full‑time (35 hours per week)
Are you passionate about driving successful delivery in a complex, fast‑paced environment? We’re looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to lead cross‑functional teams and deliver high‑quality, secure and resilient digital solutions that support Cambridge University Press & Assessment’s global mission. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategy, embed agile practices and make a real impact on education worldwide.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About The Role
As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth flow of delivery from discovery through to live service. You’ll work closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align priorities, manage risks, and ensure that solutions meet performance, security, and compliance standards. This role is essential to maintaining delivery predictability, operational readiness and value realisation across our Exam Technology Organisation.
Key Accountabilities Include
* Leading agile delivery across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with product goals.
* Managing dependencies, risks and release governance to protect stability and quality.
* Embedding non‑functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) into delivery.
* Driving continuous improvement and fostering a positive, collaborative team culture.
* Partnering with internal teams and external vendors to ensure successful outcomes.
Candidate Profile
About you
You bring proven experience in agile delivery leadership, with the ability to motivate and coordinate cross‑functional teams across onshore and offshore models. You have strong technical awareness‑enough to challenge and support design decisions and an understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
You’ll Also Demonstrate
* Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
* A proactive approach to risk and issue management.
* A collaborative outcome‑focused mindset with resilience and adaptability.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world‑class, flexible, family‑friendly and planet‑friendly benefits, including:
* 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× annual salary
* Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid‑working colleagues to spend 40‑60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for October 27, 2025. Interviews are expected to begin in the weeks following the application deadline.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
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