Service Delivery Manager
| Posting date: | 22 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £64,659 to £76,260 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 February 2026 |
| Location: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Scottish Funding Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
To lead and develop the successful delivery of projects that supports Scottish Funding Council’s (SFC’s) mission within the digital environment. As the champion of Agile and innovative project management practices, this role will work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high quality projects, on time, within budget, ensuring they are operating to contract and their delivery is optimised for SFC.
Key responsibilities
• Lead and develop the service delivery for designated digital products and platforms, including meeting SLAs, security and accessibility standards.
• Plan and deliver change using agile methods (Scrum/Kanban), maintain product backlogs, roadmaps and release plans and embed continuous improvement.
• Champion user‑centred design (Digital Scotland Service Standard) through discovery, prototyping and usability assurance.
• Turn strategy into outcomes, align roadmaps and investment cases to CIO priorities and Scotland’s public service reform agenda.
• Drive data‑informed decisions, define service KPI’s/Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) using analytics and feedback loops to prioritise and improve.
• Deliver strong governance risk management, aligned with SFC’s risk management framework.
• Manage supplier delivery to contracted outcomes and co-ordinate cross‑agency dependencies (e.g. Scottish Government, colleges, universities and SDS)
• Partner with internal and external teams to ensure robust, secure, cost‑effective digital services.
• Contribute to financial planning, benefits tracking and value for money across the portfolio of SFC’s digital services.
• Coach teams and senior leadership in agile and service management, promote an inclusive, learning‑oriented digital culture.
• Lead and develop pragmatic roadmaps that demonstrates SFC’s evolution in digital maturity.
• Lead and develop the digital project team.
Skills, qualifications and experience
Essential
• Proven end‑to‑end ownership of digital services, delivering to defined outcomes through an evidence-based approach.
• Demonstrable agile delivery experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and suppliers, clear backlog, sprint and release management, ideally using Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong user‑centred design orientation experience running or using discovery, user research, prototyping and usability testing.
• Strong experience in designing and delivering projects against KPI’s/OKR’s, using analytics, feedback and insight to prioritise and improve.
• Risk, incident & change management in a live service context, familiarity with ITIL or equivalent service management practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management experience across business and technology with the ability to negotiate and persuade non-technical experts, translating needs into roadmaps and executable plans with clear written and verbal communication.
• Strong organisation and project management, ability to balance strategic priorities with day‑to‑day delivery in a dynamic and changing environment.
Key responsibilities
• Lead and develop the service delivery for designated digital products and platforms, including meeting SLAs, security and accessibility standards.
• Plan and deliver change using agile methods (Scrum/Kanban), maintain product backlogs, roadmaps and release plans and embed continuous improvement.
• Champion user‑centred design (Digital Scotland Service Standard) through discovery, prototyping and usability assurance.
• Turn strategy into outcomes, align roadmaps and investment cases to CIO priorities and Scotland’s public service reform agenda.
• Drive data‑informed decisions, define service KPI’s/Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) using analytics and feedback loops to prioritise and improve.
• Deliver strong governance risk management, aligned with SFC’s risk management framework.
• Manage supplier delivery to contracted outcomes and co-ordinate cross‑agency dependencies (e.g. Scottish Government, colleges, universities and SDS)
• Partner with internal and external teams to ensure robust, secure, cost‑effective digital services.
• Contribute to financial planning, benefits tracking and value for money across the portfolio of SFC’s digital services.
• Coach teams and senior leadership in agile and service management, promote an inclusive, learning‑oriented digital culture.
• Lead and develop pragmatic roadmaps that demonstrates SFC’s evolution in digital maturity.
• Lead and develop the digital project team.
Skills, qualifications and experience
Essential
• Proven end‑to‑end ownership of digital services, delivering to defined outcomes through an evidence-based approach.
• Demonstrable agile delivery experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and suppliers, clear backlog, sprint and release management, ideally using Scrum or Kanban.
• Strong user‑centred design orientation experience running or using discovery, user research, prototyping and usability testing.
• Strong experience in designing and delivering projects against KPI’s/OKR’s, using analytics, feedback and insight to prioritise and improve.
• Risk, incident & change management in a live service context, familiarity with ITIL or equivalent service management practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management experience across business and technology with the ability to negotiate and persuade non-technical experts, translating needs into roadmaps and executable plans with clear written and verbal communication.
• Strong organisation and project management, ability to balance strategic priorities with day‑to‑day delivery in a dynamic and changing environment.
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