Delivery Manager - Senior Manager Framework (18 month FTC)

How you'll help us live our purpose

We've been helping our members save for their future and buy their own home since 1875. Join us and you'll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

It's a purpose that drives everything we do. And you can play your part too. We're looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to join our Core Transformation programme on an 18-month Fixed Term Contract, leading the Senior Manager Framework (SMF) assurance process to support a safe, controlled and successful business transition.

How you'll make a difference

You'll take ownership of the SMF assurance and attestation process across our Core Transformation programme, bringing pace, structure and clarity to the evidence and decisions needed to support a confident go-live.

Working closely with senior leaders, business teams and independent assurance functions, you'll develop and deliver a structured approach across four key assurance checkpoints, ensuring expectations, responsibilities and timelines are clearly understood.

You'll coordinate evidence from across business readiness, technology, testing, migration, risk and controls, bringing complex information together into a clear, reliable picture of programme readiness. With accountability for the overall process, you'll ensure evidence is robust, traceable and available when needed, proactively identifying gaps, challenging concerns and driving actions through to resolution.

Engaging directly with Senior Manager Function holders and executive stakeholders, you'll facilitate meaningful assurance discussions, manage risks and dependencies, and provide clear reporting to support informed decisions. Your focus will be on creating a proportionate, transparent and well-controlled process that gives senior leaders confidence in the Society's readiness for change.

This isn't a technical implementation role. Your focus will be on ensuring a safe, controlled and successful transition into Business as Usual (BAU), bringing together the people, processes, plans and assurance needed to embed change and maintain operational stability.

What will you bring to the role?

• Proven experience leading complex transformation, regulatory change or governance programmes, with accountability for successful delivery and business outcomes.
• Strong project and delivery management expertise, with the ability to develop structured plans, coordinate multiple workstreams and deliver against challenging milestones.
• Experience operating within a regulated environment, ideally FS,with a sound understanding of regulatory expectations, governance, assurance and formal approval processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging and presenting to Board and senior accountable stakeholders, including the confidence to challenge constructively and influence decisions at the highest levels.
• Experience coordinating evidence, managing assurance checkpoints and translating complex business, technology and risk information into clear, decision-ready reporting.
• Strong understanding of risk, controls and dependency management, ideally gained through delivering regulatory or risk-related change, with the judgement to identify gaps, escalate concerns and drive actions through to resolution.
• Ability to bring clarity to complex and ambiguous situations, balancing competing priorities while maintaining appropriate governance and delivery controls.
• Experience managing resources, budgets and delivery priorities, ensuring activity remains proportionate, efficient and focused on successful outcomes.
• A highly organised, collaborative and pragmatic approach, with strong facilitation skills, attention to detail and the confidence to maintain momentum across multiple stakeholders.

And in return, you'll get the best from us:

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office
• Annual bonus of up to 12%
• Matched pension contributions up to 10%
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme
• Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
• 2 days' volunteering per year

We'll give you a place to belong with the support to learn, develop and shape a meaningful career.

Why choose us?

Our business is centred around our people. Our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, as shown by our Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We're committed to equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

You'll be joining a truly purpose-focused culture which helped us win the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023 Business Culture Awards. This recognises how we've embedded our purpose with our colleagues, and the actions we've taken to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

Why wait? Apply now

We'd love to hear from you. But don't wait around - we may close the advert early and we'd hate for you to miss out.

We're devoted to creating a culture and workplace that is representative of the communities we serve. If you'd like to work with us but are unsure if you meet the full criteria for a role, please contact the recruiter so we can find out more about your skills and experience.

We're committed to supporting you to be at your best - to discuss any reasonable adjustments we could make, please contact us on careers@leedsbuildingsociety.co.uk.

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