Delivery Manager

About This Role

Joining the Delivery Team, the Delivery Manager will support some of the UK's most important and complex customer missions. This role plays a key part in ensuring successful project delivery, financial performance, stakeholder engagement, and team leadership across a portfolio of specialist programs. You will work closely with customers, technical experts, and business leaders to drive delivery excellence, solve complex challenges, and identify opportunities for future growth. This is an opportunity to make a measurable impact by leading delivery activities that directly contribute to national security, defense, and mission success, with autonomy to influence strategy, improve ways of working, and support the growth of both customers and Northrop Grumman UK's capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the successful delivery of medium-scale, high-impact projects, ensuring outcomes are achieved on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards
• Own project financial performance, including forecasting, budget management, profitability, and commercial governance
• Build, coach, and support high-performing teams, creating an environment where collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation thrive
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change control processes, ensuring potential delivery challenges are proactively mitigated
• Engage and influence stakeholders across customer organizations and Northrop Grumman UK, building trusted relationships and identifying opportunities for future growth
• Apply agile, lean, and project management best practices to improve delivery performance and drive successful mission outcomes

Requirements

• UK citizenship required
• Currently hold the highest UK Government clearance level
• Demonstrable experience delivering projects or programs within a complex customer environment
• Strong project management capabilities including planning, forecasting, risk management, resource management, and governance
• Experience managing project finances, commercial performance, and profitability
• Ability to build trusted relationships with customers, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary teams
• Experience working within Agile, Lean, Scrum, or similar delivery methodologies
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all levels

Nice to have:

• Experience delivering work within defense, national security, central government, mission systems, or highly regulated environments
• Understanding of fixed price and time & materials contracts
• Knowledge of audit processes, commercial lifecycles, and project mobilization activities
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams