Technical Delivery Manager

Contracting period: 9 Months

Contract Details: Freelance

Experienced Technical Delivery Manager required to lead and coordinate delivery across multiple teams and verticals. The role focuses on clear executive-level reporting, strong stakeholder engagement, and ensuring consistent delivery governance across programs.

Key responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day delivery activities across multiple teams and business verticals, ensuring alignment to program objectives.
• Produce, maintain and present executive-level reports and dashboards for senior stakeholders (status, risks, decisions, milestones).
• Act as primary point of contact between technical teams and exec/stakeholder groups; translate technical details into concise business-facing updates.
• Track and drive resolution of risks, issues, dependencies and escalations.
• Ensure delivery governance, quality standards and consistent delivery practices across teams (sprint cadence, ceremonies, SLAs).
• Coordinate cross-functional planning, resource allocation and inter-team dependencies to maintain program momentum.
• Provide leadership and guidance to delivery leads and technical contributors; facilitate workshops and steering meetings.

Required skills & experience

• Proven experience as a Technical Delivery Manager, Program Manager or similar role supporting multiple teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; confident presenting to executive-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience producing executive dashboards, management reports and steering packs.
• Experience working across multiple verticals/business domains and managing cross-team dependencies.
• Comfortable with delivery frameworks (Agile/Scrum and/or Waterfall) and tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS PowerPoint/Excel.
• Strong stakeholder management, escalation management and risk management capabilities.

Nice-to-have

• Experience working with large telecom clients or within telecom environments.