Lead Delivery Manager

Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience. 

 

The opportunity 

At Valtech, you’ll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact, and professional growth. Whether you're pioneering new digital solutions, challenging conventional thinking or building the next generation of customer experiences, your work will help transform industries. 

 

We are proud of: 

• The work we do and innovation we drive 

• Our Values of share, care and dare 

• A workplace culture that fosters creativity, diversity and autonomy 

• Our borderless, global framework, which enables seamless collaboration 

 

The Role: 

As a Lead Delivery Manager at Valtech you will need to be able to walk the line between the customer needs, the Delivery team’s needs and Valtech’s needs. That means you will be accountable for ensuring that the work being delivered by the team on the ground is in line with our commercial agreements and agreed commercial outcomes. In order to do this you will need to manage expectations and risk both internally and externally and be prepared to have difficult conversations and hold others to account where necessary. 

Role Responsibilities: 

• Facilitate cross-team coordination and manage interdependencies.  

• Drive delivery cadence and maintain momentum across teams.  

• Act as the central point of coordination for Product Owners and Tech Leads.  

• Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, and cross-stream impacts.  

• Create and maintain programme-level artefacts (integrated plans, RAIDD logs, resourcing forecasts, progress reporting).  

• Align outputs to strategic goals set by the Programme governance and clients.  

• Facilitate workshops for cross-stream planning and critical path mapping.  

• Consolidate stream-level reporting into a coherent executive summary.  

• Enforce standardised processes across teams (quality gates, documentation, reporting).  

• Support communications between client stakeholders and delivery teams. 

 

Must have: 

• Proven experience managing multiple teams to meet customer needs 

• Proven experience in managing large projects, preferably with relevant project management certification. 

• Proven experience in the management of project budgets 

• Ability to organize the teams and the work to hit and exceed required timescales 

• Experience in leading and inspiring teams to reach a shared vision 

• Ability to communicate at all levels; in particular, senior clients, project stakeholders, and teams 

• Champion agile methodologies, design and support changes of team structures, and help embed ways of working e.g data driven decision making