Head of Delivery

Most Heads of Delivery end up as the busiest delivery manager on the team, with no time left to lead.

Here, client work is kept to around two days a week. The rest of your week goes on growing your team and improving how we deliver.

You'll lead four Senior Delivery Managers, including one we're hiring now, and you'll grow the team from there.

You'll report to our Chief Financial and Operating Officer, and there's an opportunity to progress to director level.

What you'll be doing

• Shape how delivery works, from team structure to how projects are run and reported

• Run delivery across all our client projects, keeping them on budget and profitable

• Give leadership a clear view of how every project is going

Who you'll be doing it for

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years behind us, backed by a growth capital investor. We're a certified B Corp, and a share of our client revenue funds local charities and projects.

Earlier this year, a client came to us after three failed outsourcing projects. We embedded engineers in their teams, and they've since extended.

On recent projects, our agentic engineering has cut the time it takes to get code reviewed and approved by 60%.

Sectors include government, media, health tech, retail and financial services. Project teams of 5 to 15 mix agentic engineers, software engineers, QA and designers.

Where you'll work

There's no set number of office days, but we value time together in person.

You'll need to be in the office or on client sites for important meetings and workshops, so you must live within 50 miles of Leeds or Manchester.

What you'll get

• 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays

• 5 paid Impact Days a year for learning, volunteering or innovation

• Learning and wellbeing budgets, plus 2 paid wellbeing days a year

• Enhanced parental leave and sick pay

• Free counselling, plus financial coaching through Bippit

What you'll need

• A background leading delivery as a Head of Delivery or similar, ideally in a consultancy or agency

• Time in a growing business of roughly 150 to 500 people, where you've been hands-on as well as leading

• A track record of building or reshaping a delivery team, including hiring

• Experience running a £1m+ portfolio of digital projects in Agile teams

• Confidence managing risk across several projects at once

• Experience working closely with commercial and leadership colleagues, as well as clients

• An appetite to build your team in person

Experience in regulated sectors such as the public sector is a bonus.

How to apply

Apply via this advert.

The process is a 30 minute call with our Talent Lead, then a one-hour final interview with our leadership team.