Senior Manager, Business Delivery

Norfolk St, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2JE
, UK

Posted Thursday 19 February 2026 at 06:00

Job Title: Senior Manager, Business Delivery & Change

Department: Business Change & Transformation

Location: Sheffield

Working Pattern: Hybrid, includes 3 days each week in the office

Contract Type: Full time, permanent

Salary: Up to £90,000 per annum

At Tes we are on a mission to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by delivering EdTech solutions that give educators the tools to succeed. From safeguarding and compliance to staff and pupil management, our innovative and flexible software and services help teachers and school leaders worldwide to provide the best education to millions of children.

With more than 13 million educators in our community, combined with our working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries, we have been making a difference for over 100 years.

As the Senior Manager, Business Change & Delivery, you will be responsible for driving the successful delivery of strategic roadmap initiatives and embedding change across the business. You will lead a small, high performing team and own the delivery methodology - ensuring a consistent, efficient, and value driven approach to project execution. This includes but isn't limited to our planning, delivery & business analysis processes & playbooks.

This role is pivotal in accelerating time to value, reducing delivery timelines, and ensuring that change is implemented in a way that maximises business impact and minimises disruption.

• End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Accountable for the successful delivery of roadmap initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and measurable business outcomes.
• Change Leadership: Owns the implementation of change across the business, ensuring changes are embedded, adopted, and sustained effectively.
• Methodology & Delivery Framework: Responsible for defining, maintaining, and evolving the planning, delivery & business analysis methodology to optimise speed, consistency, and value realisation.
• Value Realisation: Accountable for tracking and reporting on value delivered, including cost savings, efficiency improvements, and time to value metrics.
• Team Leadership & Development: Leads a team of delivery and business analysis professionals, fostering a high performance culture and supporting individual growth.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Ensures effective communication and alignment with stakeholders across the business to support delivery and change initiatives.

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of strategic projects from initiation through to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Develop and maintain delivery plans, resource forecasts, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Accountable for Business Analysis practice & playbooks
• Define and embed best practice delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, hybrid) tailored to business needs.
• Monitor and report on delivery performance, timelines, and value metrics.
• Champion change management principles to ensure successful adoption of new processes, systems, or behaviours.
• Facilitate cross functional collaboration to remove blockers and accelerate delivery.
• Coach and mentor team members, providing clear direction, feedback, and development opportunities.
• Continuously improve delivery processes and tools to enhance efficiency and reduce time to value.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing insight and recommendations on delivery strategy and change readiness.

• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading delivery and change initiatives within complex organisations, with experience in applying delivery methodologies to accelerate time to value, and a strong background in stakeholder engagement, team leadership, and realising measurable business benefits.

• The candidate will possess deep knowledge of delivery and change management principles, including project lifecycle methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, hybrid), change adoption frameworks, and value realisation…