Senior Delivery Manager - 6509

Senior Delivery Manager - Cambridge

Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager

Salary: £49,000 - £65,000

Location: Cambridge

Contract: Permanent

Are you passionate about driving successful delivery in a complex, fast-paced environment? We're looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to lead cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality, secure and resilient digital solutions that support Cambridge University Press & Assessment's global mission. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategy, embed agile practices and make a real impact on education worldwide.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth flow of delivery from discovery through to live service. You'll work closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align priorities, manage risks, and ensure that solutions meet performance, security, and compliance standards. This role is essential to maintaining delivery predictability, operational readiness and value realisation across our Exam Technology Organisation.

Key accountabilities include:

• Leading agile delivery across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with product goals.
• Managing dependencies, risks and release governance to protect stability and quality.
• Embedding non-functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) into delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement and fostering a positive, collaborative team culture.
• Partnering with internal teams and external vendors to ensure successful outcomes.

About you

You'll bring proven experience in agile delivery leadership, with the ability to motivate and coordinate cross-functional teams across onshore and offshore models. You have strong technical awareness-enough to challenge and support design decisions and a understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A proactive approach to risk and issue management.
• A collaborative outcome-focused mindset with resilience and adaptability.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being INSERT . Interviews are scheduled to take place on INSERT .

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.