SC Cleared Delivery Manager – Operational Technology Service Improvements

Role: Delivery Lead

Location: Remote – with occasional on site visit to West Sussex offices

Type of Role: Contract

Rate: Day Rate c. £500/Outside IR35

Duration: 6 months, with potential to extend for a further 18 months

Security Clearance: SC required

Start date: 01 October 2026

The opportunity!

An experienced Delivery Lead accountable for planning and managing the delivery of approved service improvements from discovery through to live release, ensuring the delivery is aligned to business priorities, agreed governance, policies, budgets and available business capacity. The Delivery Manager will ensure the right stakeholders are consulted at the appropriate points in the delivery lifecycle and will work in partnership with the internal team who provide the equivalent Product Manager and Service Owner roles to support successful delivery into the organisation.

The client is looking for someone who can bring structure, pace and coordination to an already active programme of improvements, while adapting their approach to a small organisation where agile practices and specialist project roles may not always be fully in place.

What You’ll Do?

Plan and manage delivery activity across discovery, build, test, and live implementation.

• Work to a clear, open and transparent delivery framework so that work, priorities, risks, dependencies and decisions are visible.
• Coordinate with the third party developer and internal stakeholders and support effective communication between the internal team, users and supplier.
• Manage dependencies, delivery risks, assumptions, blockers and issues, escalating where required to maintain delivery momentum.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve delivery processes, stakeholder engagement and release planning.
• Provide clear and timely progress updates to the Product Manager and Service Owner.

About you

You must be able to demonstrate the following skills/experience:

• Proven Delivery Manager experience, applying Agile, Lean or other appropriate delivery approaches to provide structure, transparency and pace.
• Ability to communicate effectively between technical and non-technical stakeholders, including business users, internal service teams and third-party suppliers.
• Experience managing delivery through the product or service lifecycle, including discovery, build, test, release.
• Ability to maintain delivery momentum by identifying blockers, managing dependencies and ensuring decisions are made at the right level.
• Understanding of commercial and supplier management in a technology delivery environment, including working with contracted suppliers and internal procurement processes.
• Ability to support financial management by tracking costs, forecasts, approvals and spend against agreed budgets.
• Knowledge of UK Government Technology programmes

Applicants should be aware that notwithstanding any level of clearance, successful candidates will also be subject to an HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard Check

Who we Are

CMC is a multi-award winning SME specialising in business transformation. We work with a wide range of customers across the UK and beyond. Our goal is to build genuine, mutually beneficial relationships underpinned by honesty, respect and clarity. CMC is made up of a community of like-minded people: committed, collaborative and passionate about what they do. We work with our customers, building on our collective strengths, to explore, evaluate and achieve together.

As a CMC Associate you’ll be an integral part of an inclusive and welcoming organisation where we value everyone’s contribution and the unique perspective that people from all backgrounds can bring. Come join us as we continue to celebrate and embrace diversity, equality and inclusion.

CMC is a people focussed organisation. We are an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) owned by its employees, which means we all play a part in shaping, contributing and enjoying in our success.