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About The Role
We are looking for an experienced Delivery Lead with a strong background in communications, stakeholder engagement and delivery management to lead the successful delivery of complex initiatives within a secure environment.
The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating delivery across multiple stakeholders, ensuring clear and consistent communication, managing priorities and dependencies, and providing visibility of progress, risks and outcomes.
This role requires someone who can combine strong delivery leadership with excellent communication skills, particularly when working across technical, operational and senior stakeholder groups.
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects and workstreams, ensuring agreed objectives, milestones and outcomes are achieved.
- Develop and deliver effective communication and stakeholder engagement approaches across the programme.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery teams, technical specialists and wider business functions.
- Translate complex or technical information into clear, concise communications for different audiences.
- Coordinate activity across multiple teams, ensuring priorities, dependencies and responsibilities are understood.
- Provide clear reporting on delivery progress, risks, issues, dependencies and key decisions.
- Facilitate workshops, stakeholder sessions, governance meetings and delivery reviews.
- Identify and manage risks and issues, escalating where appropriate and driving actions through to resolution.
- Support change and transformation activity by ensuring stakeholders remain informed and engaged throughout delivery.
- Drive collaboration across teams and maintain momentum against agreed delivery plans.
- Ensure communications are timely, consistent and aligned with wider programme objectives.
About You
- Active SC clearance.
- Ability to work onsite in Preston 3 days per week.
- Proven experience working as a Delivery Lead, Delivery Manager or similar delivery-focused role.
- Strong professional background in communications, stakeholder engagement or strategic communications.
- Experience leading the delivery of complex projects or transformation initiatives.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging with senior stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt messaging for different audiences.
- Experience managing delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks and issues.
- Confident facilitating workshops, meetings and governance sessions.
- Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams and manage competing priorities.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to bring structure and clarity to complex delivery environments.
About Us
Diversity and Inclusion
FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
Why join us
- Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
- Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
- Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
- Annual leave and work-place pension
