Principal Delivery Manager (Defence)

Location: Home worker, United Kingdom; flexibility to work on customer sites and travel when required.

Company

hirify.global delivers digital services, Workday solutions, and technology transformation programmes.

What you will do

• Lead complex, high-value digital transformation programmes across multiple teams, workstreams, and suppliers, ensuring measurable outcomes for customers and end users.
• Set programme direction, define success factors, manage dependencies and risks, and establish effective governance, assurance, and technical quality standards.
• Own programme financial performance, including forecasting, reporting, profitability, contract compliance, and commercial risk.
• Build trusted relationships with Director and C-level stakeholders and contribute to account strategy, proposals, bids, pitches, and follow-on opportunities.
• Lead, coach, develop, and resource multidisciplinary delivery teams, contributing to recruitment and succession planning.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in technology, processes, delivery effectiveness, and customer outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience delivering complex digital programmes in a consultancy, professional services, or comparable environment.
• Digital delivery and stakeholder management experience in complex environments, including large-scale transformation across multiple teams and suppliers.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and delivering successful outcomes while balancing customer needs, commercial objectives, and delivery performance.
• Experience establishing programme governance and managing risks, issues, dependencies, and assurance.
• Experience building trusted relationships with and influencing senior stakeholders, including Director and/or C-level decision-makers.
• Experience leading, developing, and coaching high-performing teams, including line management responsibility.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and decision-making skills in complex stakeholder environments.
• Active SC clearance, including continuous residence in the UK for the past five years and completion of background checks.
• Flexibility to work on customer sites and travel when required.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering programmes in central government, healthcare, defence, or another highly regulated environment.
• Broad technology experience and awareness of emerging trends, including AI, with curiosity about improving delivery effectiveness and customer outcomes.
• Business development and account growth experience, including account planning, bids, proposals, procurement activities, and securing follow-on work.
• Experience improving management, delivery, or leadership practices across a team, account, or organisation.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture focused on collaboration, inclusion, creativity, and professional growth.
• Opportunity to contribute to the development of the Defence sector business and wider Delivery capability.
• Support for individual development, meaningful objectives, coaching, and regular feedback.
• Work involves customer-site presence and travel when required.