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Join Compare the Market and help to make financial decision making a breeze for millions.\nAt Compare the Market, we’re a purpose-driven business powered by tech and AI. We’re building high-performing, results-driven teams with the skills, mindset, and ambition to deliver outcomes at pace. Every role here plays a part in driving our mission forward, and we create an environment where you can bring your authentic self, grow a truly characterful career, and see the direct impact of your work on the lives of our customers.\nWe’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you’ll fit right in.\nWe’d love you to be part of our journey.\nAs the Delivery Manager you will be responsible for leading and driving operational excellence and delivery performance across Mission teams by embedding Agile principles, optimising workflows, and enabling high-performing, outcome-driven teams. Accountable for aligning delivery execution with organisational strategy, ensuring business value is delivered reliably, transparently, and at pace. Champions continuous improvement, fosters cross-functional collaboration, and uses data-driven insights to increase delivery speed, predictability, and quality. Utilising proactive risk management, removal of systemic blockers, and coaching teams to adopt best practices, creating an environment where teams can consistently achieve high performance and deliver measurable results.\nSome of the great things you’ll be doing:\nDelivery Execution & Agile Facilitation\nAccountable for end-to-end delivery performance at the Mission level, ensuring outcomes are achieved to agreed timelines, quality standards and strategic priorities.\n\nDrive operational discipline by embedding delivery metrics into decision-making and ensuring clear visibility of progress, risk and value delivered\n\nLead Agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and stakeholder reviews).\n\nIdentify, resolve and prevent delivery blockers and optimise workflows to accelerate delivery speed and reduce waste working in collaboration with Portfolio Managers.\n\nChampion delivery excellence through consistent performance monitoring, root cause analysis and implementation of improvements\n\nEnsure cross-team coordination, managing dependencies with Product and Engineering teams.\n\nRisk & Dependency Matters\nOwn dependency management and proactively manage risks, escalating when necessary to ensure delivery is not impacted.\n\nWork with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to resolve technical and business dependencies.\n\nEnsure realistic scoping of work, avoiding overcommitment while maintaining delivery momentum.\n\nCollaboration & Stakeholder Management\nAct as the accountable owner for delivery outcomes, dependency management, risks and data-driven reporting. Align with Product Managers to prioritise effectively and enable informed decision-making.\n\nPartner closely with Delivery Enablement, Engineering Managers, and Product Leaders to ensure Mission delivery directly contributes to pillar-level strategy and organisational objectives, driving both short-term wins and long-term capability uplift.\n\nContinuous Improvement & Agile Maturity\nChampion and scale Agile ways of working, embedding practices that increase adaptability, collaboration, and speed to value. Use delivery performance metrics (e.g., predictability, cycle time, throughput) to inform strategy, identify improvement opportunities, and track measurable gains in delivery efficiency and quality.\n\nLead high-impact retrospectives and performance reviews that result in clear, measurable improvement actions.\n\nWorking Relationships with Engineering Managers\nEngineering Managers focus on technical excellence and people management. Technology Delivery Managers focus on execution efficiency and Agile facilitation.\n\nCollaboration is key- TDMs remove blockers, lead through influence rather than direct reporting lines. while EMs ensure system integrity, team capability and engineer line management\n\nTechnical decision-making (Owned by Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers). System architecture and quality standards (owned by Engineering teams)\n\nWhat we’d like to see from you:\nExpert Level (Must-Have) - Delivery Management in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), Risk dependency management at the mission level. Strong facilitation and stakeholder management skills. Experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Business and Operations).\n\nGood Level (Preferred) - Agile process optimization & continuous improvement. Data-driven decision-making using delivery metrics (e.g., cycle time, predictability). Ability to manage technical dependencies without owning technical decisions).\n\nBasic Level (Nice-to-Have) - Understanding of engineering best practices (CI/CD, DevOps, automation, AI-Augmented workflows). Familiarity with software development lifecycles and system architecture (but not responsible).\n\nWhy Compare the Market?\nWe’re a business built for pace and performance. 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