About The Role
FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Transformation Delivery Lead to work for our client within the Financial Services sector. This is an initial 6 month contract with strong potential to extend. The role will be hybrid, requiring 2-3 days per week on site in Edinburgh.
Our client is undertaking a major enterprise-wide lean agile transformation and is seeking a Transformation Delivery Lead to help shape, embed and accelerate new Ways of Working across value streams, platforms and functions.
Responsibilities:
Coach and support senior leaders, value stream leads and delivery teams to apply Agile-aligned Ways of Working effectively.
Act as a trusted advisor on lean-agile behaviours, flow, decision-making and outcome-focused delivery.
Design and deliver frameworks, playbooks, learning content and rituals that build organisational capability across teams.
Bring operating model and Ways of Working designs to life through simple, user-centred processes.
Facilitate workshops that translate strategy and TOM intent into practical workflows that colleagues can adopt.
Provide guidance to programme leadership on sequencing, adoption, readiness and cross-stream dependencies.
Support transition planning as teams migrate from project-centric to product/value-stream delivery models.
Contribute to Lean Portfolio Management practices, flow optimisation and delivery excellence across teams.
Use delivery data and metrics to improve predictability, transparency and decision-making.
Define, refine and steward core standards and playbooks underpinning the organisation's Ways of Working.
About You
7-10+ years' experience operating in lean agile environments within complex, regulated organisations.
Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale agile or product operating model transformations.
Strong practical knowledge of Scrum, Kanban, Lean Portfolio Management and flow-based delivery.
Highly skilled in coaching, influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders.
Experienced in using Jira and Confluence to support scaled delivery transparency, governance and flow.
Strong analytical mindset with comfort using delivery metrics and visual management tools.
High emotional intelligence and the ability to read organisational readiness, resistance and fatigue.
Comfortable working in ambiguity and guiding others through uncertainty.
Calm, credible, pragmatic, and able to build trust quickly across teams and leadership groups.
Strong written and verbal communication with a talent for simplifying complex concepts.
About Us
We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading graduate employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.
Diversity and Inclusion
FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
Why join us:
Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
Annual leave and work-place pension