Delivery Manager

Elsevier; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in information and analytics is seeking a Delivery Manager to work closely with Data Engineering teams to ensure successful product delivery. You will facilitate agile processes, remove impediments, and communicate transparently with stakeholders. Ideal candidates should have at least 2 years of experience in agile environments and solid understanding of agile frameworks. The position offers a flexible working environment and various employee benefits, promoting work-life balance and personal growth.

Benefits

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement

Flexible working hours

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing or facilitating delivery in agile teams.
• Ability to identify and remove delivery impediments across teams.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Facilitating agile ceremonies and ensuring delivery alignment with team priorities.
• Tracking progress and managing risks to maintain predictable delivery.

Skills

Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)

Organizational skills

Communication

Facilitation skills

Education

Agile certification (e.g., Certified Scrum Master)

Job description

## .**Delivery Manager** **About the team:**Our mission is to build and maintain a world-class knowledge graph that serves as the backbone of Elsevier’s solutions, delivering valuable insights and analysis to our customers. As a central Data Engineering organisation, we are committed to developing innovative solutions that enhance the quality of our data, enable new data-driven products, and improve the efficiency of our products and services. Ultimately, our goal is to advance science, healthcare, and society through the power of data.The Portfolio and Agile team are a key support function within Data Engineering, with a mission to enable teams to focus on doing the right work at the right time, with the right capacity—delivering value predictably, sustainably, and at scale.**About the role:**As a Delivery Manager, you will work closely with Data Engineering teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-value products and initiatives. You will help teams plan effectively, remove impediments, and deliver incremental value predictably and sustainably. You will be a servant leader - supporting teams to self-organise, collaborate, and continuously improve through the application of agile principles. You’ll make delivery visible and transparent through effective use of metrics, tools, and communication, ensuring stakeholders are informed and confident in progress.Working within the Portfolio and Agile team, you’ll collaborate with peers and senior Delivery Managers to enhance delivery practices and contribute to a culture of learning and continuous improvement across Data Engineering.**Key responsibilities:*** Partnering with engineering and product teams to plan, execute, and deliver high-quality outcomes.* Facilitating agile ceremonies and ensuring delivery alignment with team and business priorities.* Tracking progress, managing risks, and removing blockers to maintain predictable delivery.* Communicating status, progress, and challenges transparently with stakeholders.* Promoting continuous improvement by encouraging reflection, experimentation, and learning.* Using delivery metrics and data to support informed decisions and drive improvement.* Contributing to team growth by sharing best practices and lessons learned.**Requirements:*** 2+ years of experience managing or facilitating delivery in agile or cross-functional teams.* Solid understanding of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and experience applying them effectively.* Strong organisational and facilitation skills, with attention to detail and follow-through.* Ability to identify and remove delivery impediments and coordinate across teams when needed.* Clear and confident communicator who can engage stakeholders at all levels.* Passion for delivery excellence and supporting teams to achieve their best.* Agile certification (e.g. Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master) is desirable.Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.**Work in a way that works for you** We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.* Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.**Working for you**We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:* Comprehensive Pension Plan* Home, office, or commuting allowance.* Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave* Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave* Flexible working hours* Personal Choice budget* Internal communities and networks* Various employee discounts* Recruitment introduction reward* Employee Assistance Program (global)**About the business –**A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education, and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.**We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click** **to access benefits specific to your location.**We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our or please contact 1-855-833-5120.**Criminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. 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By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission-critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most.We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities. We help innovators turn knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses. Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster. And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all.With 9,500 employees, over 2,300 technologists in 5 major tech hubs, and more than 60 locations across the globe, we are committed to supporting the scientific and healthcare communities around the world. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across technology, commercial, business, and early career jobs. If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, find your team at Elsevier.Elsevier is part of RELX Group.Let’s shape progress together. Join us.elsevier.com/about/careers