Delivery Manager (Defence Sector)

Location: Home worker, United Kingdom; Belfast, United Kingdom; Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom. Customer-site travel may be required.

Company

hirify.global delivers digital services, Workday solutions, and technology-led transformation for public, healthcare, defence, and commercial clients.

What you will do

• Lead delivery of complex digital programmes for defence-sector clients, defining success factors and maintaining plans across workstreams.
• Manage project finances, forecasting, reporting, commercial objectives, contracts, and profitability.
• Build trusted relationships with clients, suppliers, sales, account teams, and third-party stakeholders.
• Manage, coach, and develop staff; set goals, provide feedback, support appraisals, and staff multidisciplinary teams.
• Establish project governance and technical quality standards, while managing risks, issues, confidentiality, and information security.
• Contribute to proposals, procurement, business development, recruitment, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Active SC clearance is mandatory.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role with UK defence-sector organisations is mandatory.
• Experience delivering complex digital programmes in a consultancy, professional services, or comparable environment.
• Digital delivery and stakeholder-management experience in a complex environment, including Agile delivery environments.
• Eligibility to achieve SC clearance, including continuous residence in the UK for 5 years and completion of background checks; applies to Public and Defence sector work.
• Experience balancing delivery outcomes, customer needs, and commercial considerations, including financial reporting and budget management.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing individuals and teams.
• Ability to work at customer sites and travel when required.
• Experience planning capacity and building multidisciplinary teams for complex digital programmes.

Nice to have

• Programme delivery experience in government, healthcare, defence, or another highly regulated environment.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, including AI, and willingness to explore their use in delivery, team experience, and customer outcomes.
• Business development experience, ideally including securing follow-on business with existing clients.
• Experience delivering digital transformation programmes and leading innovations that improve management or leadership practices.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first, diverse, inclusive culture focused on collaboration, learning, development, and meaningful customer outcomes.
• Support is available for recruitment-process accommodations and adjustments through a private conversation with talent acquisition.
• Work is available as a home-worker arrangement or from listed United Kingdom locations, with customer-site attendance and travel when required.