Senior Delivery Manager

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

Are you passionate about agile delivery and enabling teams to deliver impactful, data-driven outcomes?

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Delivery Manager to join our growing team and help lead the delivery of enterprise data, transformation, and visualisation products and services.

In this pivotal role, you'll work within a product-focused, cross-functional team delivering application and enterprise-level data capabilities, including data warehousing, transformation, reporting, and insight solutions. You'll foster a culture of continuous improvement, enable high-performing team, and help shape the delivery approach across a complex technology landscape.

About the role

What you will do:

• Champion agile values and principles, acting as a role model for collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement, and servant leadership.
• Lead and support a cross-functional team delivering data and digital capabilities in a complex enterprise environment.
• Facilitate effective delivery through strong planning, dependency management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Help teams optimise flow, improve predictability, and continuously improve ways of working.
• Own and support release and delivery management processes, ensuring robust governance and successful product launches.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and Technical leads to support prioritisation, road-mapping, budgeting, and strategic planning.
• Build strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders across the organisation.
• Work closely with Service Delivery Managers to ensure effective operational management of live services, including incident, problem, and change management considerations.
• Ensure technical debt, platform stability, resilience, and operational sustainability are appropriately represented in planning and prioritisation.
• Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and delivery impediments across teams and workstreams.
• Coach and support the development of colleagues and contribute to the evolution of agile delivery practices across the organisation.

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

• Proven experience leading agile delivery within cross-functional technology teams using Scrum, Kanban, or scaled agile approaches.
• Strong understanding of agile principles, lean delivery practices, and continuous improvement.
• Experience delivering complex technology, data, analytics, or transformation initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Strong leadership and facilitation skills, with the ability to influence and motivate teams without direct line management responsibility.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• A data-informed mindset, with a focus on outcomes, experimentation, learning, and delivering measurable value.
• Experience working closely with engineering, architecture, product, and operational teams.

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:

• Experience delivering enterprise data warehousing, data transformation, BI, analytics, or visualisation solutions.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with operational service management practices and ITIL environments.

If you're ready to lead with agility, enable high-performing teams, and help deliver meaningful enterprise transformation, we'd love to hear from you!

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

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 best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, 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.

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 rewards package, featuring 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 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be [Date]. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after. Please expect the following process when applying or this position.

• Your CV without a cover letter
• 4 application questions
• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview.
• Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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Documents

• JD_BI&A Senior Delivery Manager June26 .pdf (42.39 KB)