Digital Delivery Manager

• Contract type: Fixed term until 31 July 2028, full time
• Reports to: Senior Digital Delivery Manager
• Location: Premier League Offices, Paddington, W2 1HQ

The role

• Manage assigned digital projects and programme workstreams from planning through delivery, launch and handover, tracking progress against agreed scope, timelines and budgets.
• Create and maintain detailed delivery plans, milestones and release schedules, coordinating activities across internal teams, technology vendors and partners.
• Coordinate dependencies between projects and workstreams, follow up on commitments and flag potential impacts on the wider programme.
• Work with product and technical teams to clarify requirements, understand priorities and translate the agreed product roadmap into delivery activities.
• Maintain project and workstream risk, issue, dependency and action logs, working with owners to resolve problems and escalating where required.
• Organise and facilitate delivery planning and status meetings, recording decisions, confirming owners and following up on actions.
• Provide clear, accurate progress updates, highlighting milestone performance, risks, decisions required and changes to delivery forecasts.
• Track proposed changes to scope, timelines and costs, assess their delivery impact and support approval through established governance processes.
• Coordinate testing, release readiness and handover with relevant teams and vendors, ensuring agreed activities and approvals are completed.
• Build effective day-to-day relationships with stakeholders and delivery partners, using established delivery tools and processes and contributing practical improvements through lessons learned.

Requirements for the role

• Experience delivering digital or technology projects in a project management or delivery management role.
• Experience delivering websites, apps or other consumer-facing digital products, and familiarity with Agile and other delivery approaches.
• Experience coordinating internal teams and external vendors or agencies, including managing dependencies and following up on delivery commitments.
• Ability to build and maintain delivery plans, track milestones and manage risks, issues and changes across multiple concurrent activities.
• Working understanding of digital product development and the delivery lifecycle, including requirements, development, testing and release.
• Experience working within established project or programme governance, with the judgement to resolve day-to-day issues and escalate decisions appropriately.
• Experience using delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence and Slack.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise work and maintain accurate project information.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain delivery progress and issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A considered, practical approach to problem solving and a focus on keeping work moving.
• Collaborative approach and a clear sense of ownership for agreed deliverables and shared outcomes.

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