Defence Digital - Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,590 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | A pension contribution of 28.97% based on the listed salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | SN13 9NR, BS34 8JH, SW1A 2HB |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 425036 |
Summary
Are you passionate about digital skills and looking to make a meaningful impact? Do you want to be part of a team delivering cutting-edge capabilities that support national Defence?
We’re recruiting for Delivery Managers to join our dynamic teams within Defence Digital. These roles are central to the successful delivery of digital products, services, and transformation projects across Defence. You’ll thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, leading teams, managing timelines, removing obstacles, and ensuring delivery aligns with strategic objectives. You’ll also oversee requirements management, and proactively handle risks and issues to keep progress on track.
What You’ll Be Doing
Managing the delivery of products and services that add value through different phases of the life cycle, proactively managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
Shaping delivery strategies, identifying appropriate frameworks, and working with leading Defence suppliers to deliver future capabilities.
Actively contributes to the removal of delivery obstacles, and is adept at formulating plans to overcome difficult or unforeseen challenges.
Leading high-performing delivery teams, with added value in championing Agile principles and methodologies.
Balancing cost and time against value for the taxpayer, while keeping user needs at the forefront.
Driving continuous improvement and focusing teams on high-impact priorities.
What We’re Looking For – Key Skills and Capabilities:
We’re seeking individuals with a strong track record in delivery management, along with expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Commercial and Financial Operations, including:
Management of Managed Service Contracts.
Oversight of Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators.
Developing accurate budget plans aligned with strategic objectives, including estimating costs, identifying funding requirements, and preparing financial forecasts.
Proven experience in delivery management across a range of projects, ideally incorporating Agile and Lean methodologies, and including frameworks, such as SAFe and Scrum.
Emerging technologies, including Cloud Hosting, Artificial Intelligence and Digital transformation.
Tooling and platforms such as JIRA.
If you don’t have all the listed skills, please don’t be discouraged — we welcome your application and look forward to learning more about what you can bring to the role.
For further information can be found here on the role of a Delivery Manager, in a Government Department: Delivery manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.
We’re recruiting for Delivery Managers to join our dynamic teams within Defence Digital. These roles are central to the successful delivery of digital products, services, and transformation projects across Defence. You’ll thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, leading teams, managing timelines, removing obstacles, and ensuring delivery aligns with strategic objectives. You’ll also oversee requirements management, and proactively handle risks and issues to keep progress on track.
What You’ll Be Doing
Managing the delivery of products and services that add value through different phases of the life cycle, proactively managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
Shaping delivery strategies, identifying appropriate frameworks, and working with leading Defence suppliers to deliver future capabilities.
Actively contributes to the removal of delivery obstacles, and is adept at formulating plans to overcome difficult or unforeseen challenges.
Leading high-performing delivery teams, with added value in championing Agile principles and methodologies.
Balancing cost and time against value for the taxpayer, while keeping user needs at the forefront.
Driving continuous improvement and focusing teams on high-impact priorities.
What We’re Looking For – Key Skills and Capabilities:
We’re seeking individuals with a strong track record in delivery management, along with expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Commercial and Financial Operations, including:
Management of Managed Service Contracts.
Oversight of Service Level Agreements and Key Performance Indicators.
Developing accurate budget plans aligned with strategic objectives, including estimating costs, identifying funding requirements, and preparing financial forecasts.
Proven experience in delivery management across a range of projects, ideally incorporating Agile and Lean methodologies, and including frameworks, such as SAFe and Scrum.
Emerging technologies, including Cloud Hosting, Artificial Intelligence and Digital transformation.
Tooling and platforms such as JIRA.
If you don’t have all the listed skills, please don’t be discouraged — we welcome your application and look forward to learning more about what you can bring to the role.
For further information can be found here on the role of a Delivery Manager, in a Government Department: Delivery manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.