Job Vacancy Senior Delivery Manager
Cambridge (CB2 8BS)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Job position Senior Delivery Manager
As soon as possible
£49k-65,500
CB2 8BS, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Published on 14/10/2025
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Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Salary: £49,000 - £65,000
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
Are you passionate about driving successful delivery in a complex, fast-paced environment? We're looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to lead cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality, secure and resilient digital solutions that support Cambridge University Press & Assessment's global mission. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategy, embed agile practices and make a real impact on education worldwide.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth flow of delivery from discovery through to live service. You'll work closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align priorities, manage risks, and ensure that solutions meet performance, security, and compliance standards. This role is essential to maintaining delivery predictability, operational readiness and value realisation across our Exam Technology Organisation.
Key accountabilities include:
Salary: £49,000 - £65,000
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
Are you passionate about driving successful delivery in a complex, fast-paced environment? We're looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to lead cross-functional teams and deliver high-quality, secure and resilient digital solutions that support Cambridge University Press & Assessment's global mission. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategy, embed agile practices and make a real impact on education worldwide.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth flow of delivery from discovery through to live service. You'll work closely with Product Owners, engineering teams, and stakeholders to align priorities, manage risks, and ensure that solutions meet performance, security, and compliance standards. This role is essential to maintaining delivery predictability, operational readiness and value realisation across our Exam Technology Organisation.
Key accountabilities include:
- Leading agile delivery across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with product goals.
- Managing dependencies, risks and release governance to protect stability and quality.
- Embedding non-functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) into delivery.
- Driving continuous improvement and fostering a positive, collaborative team culture.
- Partnering with internal teams and external vendors to ensure successful outcomes.
Candidate profile
About you
You'll bring proven experience in agile delivery leadership, with the ability to motivate and coordinate cross-functional teams across onshore and offshore models. You have strong technical awareness-enough to challenge and support design decisions and a understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
You'll also demonstrate:
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for October 27, 2025. Interviews are expected to begin in the weeks following the application deadline.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
You'll bring proven experience in agile delivery leadership, with the ability to motivate and coordinate cross-functional teams across onshore and offshore models. You have strong technical awareness-enough to challenge and support design decisions and a understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery practices.
You'll also demonstrate:
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A proactive approach to risk and issue management.
- A collaborative outcome-focused mindset with resilience and adaptability.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible , featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with the closing date set for October 27, 2025. Interviews are expected to begin in the weeks following the application deadline.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Working environment
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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Knightsbridge, England, United Kingdom
> 1000 employees
IT School / University
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a global leader in academic publishing, educational resources, and assessment. With over 500 years of expertise, the organization provides innovative learning materials and exams to support education and research worldwide.
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