Head of Delivery Capability & Change (Customer & Commercial Delivery)
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The role: Head of Delivery Capability & Change (Customer & Commercial Delivery)
In this role, you will work closely with the Director of Customer & Commercial Delivery to strengthen delivery capability across the department. You'll play a key role in enabling effective Agile transformation, improving ways of working, and ensuring teams are aligned, connected and equipped to deliver against strategic customer and commercial outcomes.
What you'll do:
- Act as a key partner to the Director of Customer & Commercial Delivery, providing oversight and support across departmental delivery and change activity.
- Drive Agile and delivery-ways-of-working transformation across the department, embedding consistent, pragmatic practices that support high-performing teams.
- Identify, manage and resolve cross-team and cross-domain dependencies, risks and constraints, enabling smoother end-to-end delivery across customer and commercial domains.
- Provide a holistic view of delivery planning and progress across the department, ensuring strong alignment between business priorities and digital delivery capabilities, with a clear understanding of roadmaps, technical dependencies and architectural direction.
- Establish clear, meaningful reporting and dashboards that support transparency, informed decision-making and leadership conversations, underpinned by a strong understanding of Agile and delivery metrics across inception, build and run.
- Facilitate and support planning and alignment forums (e.g. Big Room Planning, Domain Briefings), ensuring teams are connected, outcomes-focused and aligned to organisational priorities.
- Shape and deliver change initiatives spanning process, capability and people, with a strong focus on continuous improvement and delivery effectiveness.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Software development?, * Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior leaders and delivery teams in complex, enterprise-scale environments.
- Deep experience driving enterprise-wide Agile transformation, with a strong background in modern software development and delivery practices, including CI/CD, shift-left and observability. (Essential)
- Proven ability to ensure strong alignment between business priorities and digital delivery capabilities, translating strategy into clear, achievable delivery plans.
- Demonstrated capability to enable consistent, effective and scalable ways of working across multiple teams and domains.
- Proven ability to manage dependencies, risks and priorities across multiple teams and initiatives.
- Confidence translating delivery data into clear insights and narratives for senior stakeholders, with a deep understanding of Agile metrics and what defines an industry-leading digital function. (Essential).
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, enabling clarity, alignment and momentum across the department.
Your experience:
- Experience supporting or leading delivery and change across a complex department or portfolio. (essential)
- Track record of embedding Agile and modern delivery practices at scale, from inception through build and run is essential.
- Experience working closely with senior leaders to improve delivery effectiveness, organisational alignment and leadership communications (essential)
- Strong background in delivery governance, reporting and assurance. (essential)
- A degree in Computer Science or Information Technology is desirable, but relevant experience is essential.