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Strategic Delivery Lead
Xantura Limited. Lead the successful delivery of one of Xantura’s most complex or strategically important programmes .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in managing complex projects and programmes, with a strong focus on stakeholder management, team development, and strategic account leadership. Proven ability to drive operational improvements and client adoption through effective change management and delivery governance.
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Project ManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam DevelopmentChange ManagementStrategic Account Leadership
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Hard Skills
Project DeliveryProgramme ManagementTransformation ManagementData AnalysisRisk Management
Soft Skills
Problem-SolvingOrganisational SkillsPrioritisationCollaborationCoaching
Industry Keywords
Public SectorInformation GovernanceData-SharingTechnology-Enabled ChangeConsulting
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the successful delivery of one of Xantura’s most complex or strategically important programmes
- Provide hands-on support and guidance across multiple projects or workstreams led by team members
- Manage outcomes, scope, timelines, budgets, risks and dependencies
- Work with client leaders and frontline teams to build engagement and readiness and support adoption of new tools, insights and ways of working
- Maintain delivery health across projects and act as a senior escalation point
- Drive client adoption, operational improvement and benefits realisation
- Own strategic client accounts and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders
- Lead account plans connecting current delivery with clients’ longer-term priorities and Xantura’s strategic objectives
- Support contract renewals, account growth opportunities and strategic commercial discussions
- Line manage and develop 2–4 Project Managers through objectives, feedback and coaching
- Support project management, consulting, stakeholder management and change management capability development
- Support prioritisation and resource allocation across the team
- Foster a collaborative, supportive and high-performing culture
- Balance direct project delivery, account leadership, team management and wider pod oversight
- Apply delivery standards, governance processes and reporting expectations
- Identify and address cross-project risks, dependencies and resourcing pressures
- Share lessons learned and improve delivery methods across Business Consulting
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5-7 years' experience delivering complex projects, programmes or consulting engagements
- Significant experience managing large-scale transformation or technology-enabled change programmes
- Excellent project and programme management skills, with a proven ability to manage complexity and competing priorities
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships with senior client leaders
- Experience in line managing and developing colleagues, and building a high performing team
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate ambiguity confidently
- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to balance delivery, people management and account leadership responsibilities
- A passion for social impact and a desire to improve outcomes through data and technology
- Experience working within, or consulting to, the public sector
- Experience managing strategic accounts or client portfolios
- Familiarity with privacy, information governance and data-sharing programmes
- Experience working in a high-growth technology or consulting environment
- Ability to work from the London office at least 1-2 days per week
- Availability for travel to on-site client engagements as needed
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive salary reviewed annually
- Work for a passionate, mission-driven company solving society’s big problems
- Work flexible hours around life commitments with a focus on delivering company value rather than hours worked
- Training and development opportunities
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Generous enhanced parental leave policies
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flu Vaccinations
- Eye Test and contribution towards Glasses for VDU use
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Remote GP access
- Counselling/therapy
- Physiotherapy
- Medical second opinions