IT Delivery Manager

Overview

As IT Delivery Manager, you ll play a vital role in collaborating with Engineering and Project teams to facilitate effective and timely decision-making. Your efforts will ensure a steady pace of change aligned with the strategic goals, milestones, and ambitions set by senior leaders. Additionally, you will provide continuous insights to these leaders regarding the capacity of our Engineering teams, factoring in both ongoing projects and new demands.

You’ll join our newly formed Solutions Delivery - Engineering Team, with responsibility for overseeing delivery across IT Engineering. Your focus will be on maximising value, managing demand, and ensuring clear visibility of progress, risks and capacity. Working closely with Engineering, Business and Change teams, you ll provide insight into delivery performance, support BAU services, and ensure work aligns with wider change, audit and regulatory frameworks.

This is a hybrid role with remote working plus one day per week in our Leeds or Bradford offices.

At YBS we don t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you ll be respected for who you are, you ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career. Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance.

Whether it s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this. Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey.

From day one, we ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly. Inclusivity. We re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you ll go the extra mile to help our members, you ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

• Lead internal planning and provide planning expertise, drawing on multiple strands of resources and dependencies across both the IT function and incoming dependencies from our strategic and delivery roadmaps
• Contribute to quarterly/ annual forecasting, supporting the leadership teams in achieving accurate and timely plans
• Be accountable for ongoing visibility of high-level plans to inform lower-level work force planning, working in conjunction with change & release to provide continuous flow
• Provide a constant oversight of delivery, understanding the breadth of activities flowing through the teams, ensuring alignment with the wider change management frameworks including dependency, risk and issue management (tracking and escalation), support the inclusion of Audit and Regulatory work
• Lead a team of IT Delivery Leads providing capability across the Engineering teams and the necessary projects
• Support the overall cost centre management processes and incoming IT costs from delivery of new or upgraded technology, by ensuring the IT and project budgets have accounted for all aspects of delivery; across people/infrastructure/services
• Track capacity of the Engineering teams and overarching skills view, working with IT Engineering Leads to influence the future skills of the teams and support training and recruitment, facilitating realignment of resources to demand (skills/ resource planning)
• Act as a central communication hub - sharing updates on team performance, project timelines, and key milestones. Disseminate these insights broadly to service stakeholders, including Transformation Leads and Directors/ Sponsors responsible for change initiatives

• You’ll have previous technical/ IT project/ change management experience within both an Agile and Waterfall delivery team with the ability to influence and challenge constructively.
• Experience of delivering complex change across people, process, and technology…