IT Delivery Manager - Blocker Buster for Data Programs

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Delivery / Project Manager to support a complex IT/data programme. The role will focus on removing delivery blockers, coordinating business and supplier teams, driving accountability, and ensuring projects progress effectively in a resource-constrained and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identify and remove blockers relating to data, ownership, decisions and business inputs.
• Work with internal business teams to prioritise requirements and capture business knowledge.
• Facilitate workshops and help establish clear, repeatable processes.
• Manage and coordinate third-party suppliers, ensuring agreed milestones, quality and deliverables are achieved.
• Maintain an integrated view of the delivery plan, dependencies, risks, issues and finances, using Microsoft Project.
• Ensure project inputs have clear ownership and outputs are defined, measurable and testable.
• Provide clear, outcome-focused reporting to stakeholders, steering groups and boards.
• Drive timely decision-making and ensure blockers are visible and actively managed.

Essential Experience

• Experience delivering or supporting complex, cross-business IT/data programmes.
• Strong track record of unblocking delivery in resource-constrained environments.
• Experience managing and working closely with third-party delivery partners/suppliers.
• Strong business change and process-definition experience.
• Strong financial/budget management skills.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, incomplete requirements and evolving scope.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.