Vacancy: Senior Project Delivery Manager

We are looking for a Senior Project Delivery Manager who will be responsible for the delivery of defined business and technology projects, ensuring they are executed to agreed scope, timescales, quality, and budget. 

The role focuses on day-to-day delivery management, coordinating business and technical teams, and controlling risks, issues, and dependencies. The Project Delivery Manager is accountable for turning approved plans into delivered outcomes.

Role responsibilities:

1. Project Delivery & Execution

• Deliver assigned projects in line with approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
• Maintain detailed project plans, delivery schedules, and task-level tracking.
• Drive delivery activity across business, technology, and supplier teams to meet milestones.
• Proactively identify, track and mitigate risks and issues, including those relating to technical delivery, security or system stability.
• Manage change control processes, ensuring impacts on technology, resources or timelines are fully assessed and approved.
• Resolve project challenges, balancing business priorities with technical feasibility.

2. Technology & Systems Delivery

• Manage delivery of IT-enabled projects including system implementations, configuration changes, integrations, upgrades, and automation.
• Track progress of technical build, configuration, testing, and deployment activities.
• Manage execution of development cycles, UAT and go-live activities.
• Coordinate technical dependencies between internal IT teams, external suppliers and enterprise systems.
• Oversee the creation, validation, and approval of technical documentation such as solution designs, release notes, migration plans, interface specifications and architecture diagrams.
• Support IT teams in the management of environments (development, test, UAT, pre-production, production), ensuring availability, version control and configuration integrity.
• Manage data migration preparation and execution plans, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, rehearsal cycles, and cutover plans.
• Lead go-live readiness activities including dress rehearsals, deployment planning, support model design, and transition to BAU/IT service management.
• Ensure post-go-live hypercare is delivered effectively, coordinating IT resources, issue resolution, and performance monitoring.
• Work with IT service management and support teams to define service transition requirements, handover processes, and support documentation.

3. Delivery Controls & Assurance

• Maintain core delivery artefacts including RAID logs, dependency trackers, issue logs, and action registers.
• Identify delivery risks early and implement agreed mitigations.
• Manage change requests within agreed tolerances and escalation routes.

4. Supplier & Dependency Management

• Coordinate delivery activities with external suppliers and implementation partners.
• Track supplier milestones, dependencies, and deliverables against agreed plans.
• Escalate delivery risks or slippage in a timely and structured way.

5. Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Work with business leads to define requirements and support decision-making.
• Translate complex technical information into clear, accessible language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Maintain strong communication between business users, IT teams, suppliers and senior leadership.

6. Testing, Go-Live & Handover

• Coordinate testing phases, defect tracking, and resolution.
• Support go-live readiness, deployment planning, and transition to BAU.
• Ensure handover documentation and support arrangements are in place.

7. Reporting & Governance

• Produce accurate status reports, milestone updates, and exception reports.
• Operate within agreed project governance and delivery frameworks.

BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.

In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.

No recruitment agencies please.

How to apply: Please apply by submitting your CV to careers@bcs.uk along with a cover note answering the following questions:

(a) Your area(s) of expertise & qualifications;

(b) Your experience and suitability for the role

We look forward to hearing from you!

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