YLD is hiring a Contract Delivery Manager to play a key role in leading the successful delivery of client engagements. This role combines strong project and delivery management with agile leadership and coaching. You will operate at the intersection of client delivery, engineering teams, and third-party partners, ensuring outcomes are delivered predictably, transparently, and to a high standard.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end delivery across one or more client engagements.
- Plan and manage scope, timelines, budgets, dependencies, risks, and mitigations.
- Act as the primary delivery contact for clients, stakeholders, vendors, and third parties.
- Support quarterly planning, roadmap alignment, forecasting, and delivery reporting using OKRs and metrics.
- Identify and manage delivery risks, issues, and expectations in a consultancy context.
- Support business change and end-user adoption of new platforms and ways of working.
- Enable teams through pragmatic use of Scrum and Kanban practices.
What We're Looking For
- Strong delivery and programme management experience in digital or technology consultancies.
- Proven delivery of software products in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
- Experience managing third-party vendors and external partners.
- Confident engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior clients.
- Experience with quarterly planning, roadmaps, OKRs, and delivery metrics.
- Strong understanding of business change and technology adoption.
- Ability to lead distributed teams and deliver outcomes in remote environments.
- Experience supporting end users through change and new platforms.
- Collaborative, low-ego mindset suited to a high-empathy, low-politics culture.
- Passion for continuous improvement, learning, and problem-solving.
Benefits & Compensation
- Remote-first working environment
- Flexible working
- Work–life balance as standard
Work Mode
This role is global and remote-first, open to candidates based in the EU.
We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability.
