Sr IT Delivery Manager

The Senior IT Delivery Manager is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of IT initiatives across Cytiva, ensuring execution is aligned to portfolio priorities, governance requirements, and business outcomes. The role is focused on driving disciplined delivery within a structured governance framework, ensuring initiatives are delivered in a controlled, predictable and compliant manner, with strong visibility of progress, risks, and dependencies.

This position reports to the Portfolio Delivery Lead and is part of the IT Delivery and Governance Team and will be an on-site role.

What you will do:

• Accountable for the successful delivery of IT initiatives, ensuring alignment to agreed scope, timeline, cost, and quality. Drive delivery execution through robust planning, tracking and control of schedules, milestones, dependencies and outcomes.
• Provide clear, consistent reporting on delivery status, risks, issues and dependencies to enable informed decision-making and escalation. Ensure adherence to Cytiva IT delivery frameworks, governance standards and tollgate requirements, maintaining high-quality, audit-ready artefacts.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and interdependencies, ensuring timely resolution and controlled delivery outcomes. Drive continuous improvement in delivery practices, controls, and predictability in line with PMO and governance expectations.
• Balance and optimise resource utilisation across initiatives in line with portfolio priorities and capacity constraints.
• Lead stakeholder engagement across business, IT, and external partners, ensuring alignment, transparency and effective communication throughout delivery. Operate effectively in a matrix environment, coordinating across multiple teams and functions to ensure delivery momentum and integration of outcomes.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Experience working within IT delivery or project management environments, including exposure to agile, hybrid, or traditional delivery models
• Experience in business relationship management, engaging with senior stakeholders and delivering business requirements.
• Experience with project planning, reporting, or project management tools (e.g. Aha!, Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar)
• Experience developing or maintaining delivery standards, templates, or governance frameworks

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel: up to 10%
• No specific physical requirements for this role

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Experience working in a regulated environment (e.g. GxP, manufacturing, life sciences)
• Experience supporting enterprise functions or PMO transformation initiatives

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cytiva, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives-and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life. Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies. At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us - working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career. Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible., Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it's a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info. Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. For more information, visit www.danaher.com. Join our winning team today. Together, we'll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow's science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.