Job ID: 1755

Closing Date: 9 November 2025

IT Services at the University of Sheffield is seeking an exceptional Delivery Lead to drive our transition to product-led, agile delivery methodologies. You’ll oversee delivery across a product area, leading and coaching a team of delivery professionals whilst ensuring transparent, risk-managed execution of our strategic initiatives. This role demands someone who can bridge product vision with operational reality, providing real-time visibility to senior stakeholders whilst unblocking issues and driving continuous improvement across our delivery practices.

You’ll bring proven experience managing complex delivery landscapes, deep agile expertise, and the leadership skills to develop high-performing teams. Working closely with the Head of Product, you’ll manage change budgets, coordinate sprint cycles, and represent delivery at governance boards. If you’re passionate about building delivery capability and creating environments where teams thrive, we want to hear from you.

What We Offer

The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities, a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.

Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.