Head of Delivery

Most Heads of Delivery end up as the busiest delivery manager on the team with no time left to lead.

Here client work is kept to around two days a week. The rest of your week goes on growing your team and improving how we deliver.

Youll lead four Senior Delivery Managers including one were hiring now and youll grow the team from there.

Youll report to our Chief Financial and Operating Officer and theres an opportunity to progress to director level.

What youll be doing

• Shape how delivery works from team structure to how projects are run and reported

• Run delivery across all our client projects keeping them on budget and profitable

• Give leadership a clear view of how every project is going

Who youll be doing it for

hedgehog lab is a digital product consultancy with 20 years behind us backed by a growth capital investor. Were a certified B Corp and a share of our client revenue funds local charities and projects.

Earlier this year a client came to us after three failed outsourcing projects. We embedded engineers in their teams and theyve since extended.

On recent projects our agentic engineering has cut the time it takes to get code reviewed and approved by 60%.

Sectors include government media health tech retail and financial services. Project teams of 5 to 15 mix agentic engineers software engineers QA and designers.

Where youll work

Theres no set number of office days but we value time together in person.

Youll need to be in the office or on client sites for important meetings and workshops so you must live within 50 miles of Leeds or Manchester.

What youll get

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays

• 5 paid Impact Days a year for learning volunteering or innovation

• Learning and wellbeing budgets plus 2 paid wellbeing days a year

• Enhanced parental leave and sick pay

• Free counselling plus financial coaching through Bippit

What youll need

• A background leading delivery as a Head of Delivery or similar ideally in a consultancy or agency

• Time in a growing business of roughly 150 to 500 people where youve been hands-on as well as leading

• A track record of building or reshaping a delivery team including hiring

• Experience running a 1m portfolio of digital projects in Agile teams

• Confidence managing risk across several projects at once

• Experience working closely with commercial and leadership colleagues as well as clients

• An appetite to build your team in person

Experience in regulated sectors such as the public sector is a bonus.

How to apply

Apply via this advert.

The process is a 30 minute call with our Talent Lead then a one-hour final interview with our leadership team.