Practice Lead - Delivery Manager - #2192073

Practice Lead – Product Delivery - Technology Consultancy

TrueNorth is recruiting a Product Delivery Practice Lead for a technology consultancy.

This is an opportunity to shape how a consultancy delivers for its clients, develop its delivery practitioners and remain hands-on with complex client work.

The role combines circa 60% billable delivery at Principal Delivery Manager level with responsibility for leading the Product Delivery practice.

The role

On client engagements, you’ll take ownership of complex delivery: building realistic plans, managing budgets, risks and dependencies, and helping multidisciplinary teams deliver meaningful outcomes. You’ll build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and adapt your approach to the needs of each engagement.

Across the practice, you’ll:

• Set the direction, delivery standards and ways of working.
• Coach experienced delivery professionals and support development at every level.
• Build practical resources and a community that shares knowledge across client teams.
• Work with account and technical leaders to improve delivery quality and consistency.
• Contribute to bids, pitches, scoping, estimates and delivery planning.
• Share expertise through industry events, writing and community involvement.

What we’re looking for

You’ll bring substantial experience leading complex technology delivery, alongside evidence of improving how other people and teams deliver.

Your experience should include:

• Owning large, complex client engagements, including budgets, forecasting and resourcing.
• Applying agile principles pragmatically across different client environments.
• Managing dependencies, competing priorities and senior stakeholder expectations.
• Coaching delivery professionals and influencing standards across teams.
• Supporting presales, proposals and commercial conversations.
• Using delivery tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.

You might already be a Practice Lead, Head of Delivery or Principal Delivery Manager with wider responsibility for people, standards and capability.

Public sector consultancy experience, recruitment and talent assessment, training delivery, or an established professional community profile would also be useful.

Interested in combining hands-on delivery with the opportunity to shape a practice? Apply or contact Usman at TrueNorth for a confidential conversation.