Senior Delivery Manager
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The Senior Delivery Manager is responsible for the leadership, assurance, and performance of Boldyn's delivery functions across multiple projects and programmes. Operating as the senior member of the delivery team, the Senior Delivery Manager provides structured oversight, management and coaching to ensure all delivery activity meets time, cost, quality, and safety targets. Reporting to the Head of Delivery Programme Manager / BMO and working in close partnership with the Head of Delivery & Delivery Operations, this role acts as the primary link between project delivery, commercial control, and technical assurance. The Senior Delivery Manager holds responsibility for ensuring that risks are identified early, mitigations are actioned and programme recovery plans are executed decisively. They drive consistent application of Boldyn's delivery frameworks and act as the quality gate between design, construction, and handover. The role spans planning, design, mobilisation, construction, and operational readiness, ensuring each project moves through phase control with precision and traceability. The Senior Delivery Manager champions compliance with Health & Safety and CDM Regulations or equivalent safety regulations, holds a strong command of commercial and contractual obligations and enforces disciplined change control. They are the trusted senior lead who ensures Boldyn does not fail on delivery - setting standards, auditing performance, and maintaining a culture of discipline and accountability. By supporting and developing Delivery Managers, they strengthen overall delivery capability, enhance commercial awareness and protect Boldyn's reputation for quality, safety, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Leadership & Team Management
- Lead, mentor and coach Delivery Managers and support staff colleagues to achieve delivery excellence and personal development.
- Act as the operational lead of the delivery function, providing clear direction and escalation management across projects.
- Define and enforce delivery standards, processes and tools across the team in alignment with the BDMO framework.
- Conduct regular reviews with Delivery Managers to evaluate progress, quality, risks and adherence to standards.
- Create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement across all delivery disciplines.
- Programme Oversight & Risk Management
- Provide consolidated visibility of programme risks, milestones, dependencies and inter-project impacts.
- Support all Delivery Managers with RAID oversight, ensuring that issues are resolved and mitigations tracked to closure.
- Undertake regular audits of delivery performance, ensuring data accuracy, escalation discipline and early warning reporting to the Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager and BMOBDO.
- Intervene decisively to resolve high-impact risks and drive recovery strategies across multiple projects.
- Ensure lessons learned are captured and embedded into processes to continually strengthen Boldyn's delivery resilience.
- Commercial, Contractual & Supplier Management
- Act as the senior point of contact for deployment partners and key suppliers, managing performance against SLAs and contract obligations.
- Hold oversight of commercial performance across all assigned projects, ensuring budgets, forecasts and change controls are managed correctly.
- Review and challenge cost movements, variations and subcontractor claims, maintaining commercial integrity and traceability.
- Partner with Procurement, Head of Delivery Operations and Commercial teams on supplier tenders, pricing frameworks and contract negotiations to ensure competitive value. and uphold Boldyn's commitment to Responsible Procurement
- Monitor supplier invoicing and milestone achievement, applying financial governance to prevent cost leakage.
- Drive understanding of contractual obligations across the Delivery function, ensuring compliance and consistent reporting of commercial risk.
- Technical Integration & Design Interface
- Work with the Solution Designer Manager and engineering leads to ensure buildable solutions, version control and design assurance.
- Chair or oversee build readiness reviews, ensuring designs are construction-compliant and approval-ready before execution.
- Apply broad technical understanding of DAS, Wi-Fi and fibre to support decisions and resolve on-site issues.
- Safeguard alignment between design intent and site execution to achieve quality, compliance and handover readiness.
- Impart construction and engineering knowledge to the wider team and maintain buildability / build assurance compliance.
- Subcontractor Oversight & Site Delivery
- Maintain high standards of subcontractor management through structured oversight and performance reviews.
- Ensure deployment partners meet programme requirements, technical standards and safety obligations.
- Review site-level reports, audits and evidence submissions from Delivery Managers to confi
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