Head Of Delivery (Media)

TL;DR

Head of Delivery (Media): Ensuring the successful execution of multiple deliverables within high-performing software engineering squads with an accent on establishing delivery processes, coordinating dependencies, and enabling a predictable delivery rhythm. Focus on building ways of working from scratch and influencing how programmes come to life.

Location: Hybrid role based in Manchester. You’ll typically come into the office a couple of times per week to collaborate with your team.

Company

Bauer Media Audio is Europe’s largest commercial audio broadcaster, focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe.

What you will do

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of digital programmes, ensuring teams have clear goals, plans, and realistic forecasts.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to define priorities, capacity, and throughput expectations.
• Ensure engineering and product-identified risks and dependencies are captured and reported against, driving clear mitigation plans.
• Lead Agile delivery teams using Scrum or other appropriate Agile methodologies.
• Coordinate communications, change, testing, and business readiness activities.
• Coach delivery maturity, continuous improvement, and strong collaboration across squads.

Requirements

• Hands‑on delivery management experience within digital development environments.
• Proven track record of delivering 2–3 substantial end-to-end digital initiatives.
• Deep experience with Agile, sprint-based methodologies, and modern delivery frameworks.
• Experience embedding overarching processes to drive operational and delivery efficiency.
• Proven ability to interact and influence product and technology teams, communicating confidently at all levels.
• Ability to bring clarity and structure to ambiguous, early-stage programmes.

Nice to have

• Experience in media/audio environments.
• Comfortable using Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) at an advanced level.

Culture & Benefits

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy.
• Enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• Opportunity for flexible working.