Junior Delivery Manager

Junior Delivery Manager

Posted Today by Tech4

£60 Per hour
Outside
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom

Summary: The Junior Delivery Manager (Web & App) will oversee the execution of digital projects for a renowned global brand, focusing on eCommerce and QSR environments. This role involves managing end-to-end delivery across teams in Canada and Europe, ensuring alignment with product strategy and high-quality outcomes. The position requires strong coordination skills to manage dependencies and risks while driving execution excellence. The role is classified as outside IR35 and offers a rolling contract based remotely in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure all market requests, bugs, and technical needs are captured and brought into intake.
  • Coordinate cross-functional participation in discovery to ensure delivery readiness.
  • Develop a clear understanding of scope, milestones, and delivery objectives across markets.
  • Identify early cross-market dependencies, risks, and sequencing considerations.
  • Lead capacity planning for both squads, balancing priorities across Canada and Europe.
  • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to align dependencies and establish interlocks.
  • Establish and maintain planning boards, timelines, and delivery artifacts.
  • Ensure both squads produce high-quality execution plans, sprint sequencing, and commitments.
  • Drive structured discussions across squads to surface cross-market dependencies, risks and mitigations, and trade-offs and sequencing.
  • Manage and maintain PI tracking across both squads.
  • Track commitments, risks, and progress across Canada and Europe delivery workstreams.
  • Own day-to-day delivery execution.
  • Maintain and evolve timelines and milestones as work shifts.
  • Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks, blockers, and dependencies.
  • Ensure backlog health and readiness for upcoming sprints.
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies across both squads: Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews & Retrospectives.
  • Coordinate knowledge transfer and enablement post-release.
  • Track and analyze delivery metrics (eg, velocity, predictability, throughput).

Key Skills:

  • 5+ years experience in Delivery Management, Program Management, or Scrum Master roles.
  • Proven experience leading Agile/Scrum delivery in digital product environments (web and app).
  • Strong experience in PI Planning/scaled Agile frameworks.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team dependencies and global stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Experience in eCommerce or fast casual/QSR environments preferred.
  • Familiarity with tools such as Jira, JPD, Confluence, or similar delivery tooling.
  • Strong analytical mindset with experience using delivery metrics to improve outcomes.

Salary (Rate): £400-425 per day

City: London Area

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

Junior Delivery Manager (Web & App) is required by well known and iconic global brand. eCommerce, QSR environment. OUTSIDE IR35 Role Overview They are seeking a Delivery Manager to drive execution excellence across their global digital platform, supporting web and mobile app experiences in Canada and Europe . This role is responsible for end-to-end delivery execution across the Canada and Europe teams, ensuring that product strategy is translated into high-quality, predictable delivery outcomes . You will operate at the center of planning, execution, and coordination, managing dependencies across markets, teams, and platforms .

Core Competencies

  • Execution Excellence: Drives predictability, accountability, and delivery quality
  • Structured Thinking: Breaks down complex initiatives into actionable plans
  • Risk Management: Anticipates and mitigates delivery risks early
  • Operational Discipline: Establishes scalable, repeatable delivery processes

Key Responsibilities

  1. Intake & Discovery
    • Ensure all market requests, bugs, and technical needs are captured and brought into intake
    • Coordinate cross-functional participation in discovery to ensure delivery readiness
    • Develop a clear understanding of scope, milestones, and delivery objectives across markets
    • Identify early cross-market dependencies, risks, and sequencing considerations
  2. PI Planning & Roadmap Readiness
    • Before PI Planning
      • Lead capacity planning for both squads, balancing priorities across Canada and Europe
      • Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to align dependencies and establish interlocks
      • Establish and maintain planning boards, timelines, and delivery artifacts
    • During PI Planning
      • Ensure both squads produce high-quality execution plans, sprint sequencing, and commitments
      • Drive structured discussions across squads to surface cross-market dependencies, risks and mitigations, and trade-offs and sequencing
      • Advocate for realistic commitments grounded in team capacity and complexity
    • After PI Planning
      • Manage and maintain PI tracking across both squads
      • Track commitments, risks, and progress across Canada and Europe delivery workstreams
      • Ensure alignment between global roadmap commitments and local execution
  3. Execution & Sprint Delivery
    • Own day-to-day delivery execution
    • Maintain and evolve timelines and milestones as work shifts
    • Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks, blockers, and dependencies
    • Ensure backlog health and readiness for upcoming sprints
    • Partner with Product to ensure clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
  4. Agile Operations & Ceremonies
    • Facilitate Agile ceremonies across both squads: Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews & Retrospectives
    • Drive strong team accountability and delivery discipline
    • Support teams in continuous improvement and iteration of ways of working
  5. Post-Launch & Operational Excellence
    • Coordinate knowledge transfer and enablement post-release
    • Ensure a balance between feature delivery and operational support (eg, bugs, production issues)
    • Track and analyze delivery metrics (eg, velocity, predictability, throughput)

Qualifications Required

  • 5+ years experience in Delivery Management, Program Management, or Scrum Master roles
  • Proven experience leading Agile/Scrum delivery in digital product environments (web and app)
  • Strong experience in PI Planning/scaled Agile frameworks
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-team dependencies and global stakeholders
  • Excellent communication skills

Preferred

  • Experience in eCommerce or fast casual/QSR environments
  • Experience with global or multi-market delivery models
  • Familiarity with tools such as Jira, JPD, Confluence, or similar delivery tooling
  • Strong analytical mindset with experience using delivery metrics to improve outcomes

£400-425 per day OUTSIDE IR35 6 month rolling contract Based remote (UK)