Senior Delivery Manager

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About The Role
The Senior Delivery Manager is responsible for the leadership, assurance and performance of Boldyn’s delivery functions across multiple projects and programmes. Operating as the senior member of the delivery team, the Senior Delivery Manager provides structured oversight, management and coaching to ensure all delivery activity meets time, cost, quality and safety targets. Reporting to the Head of Delivery, this role acts as the primary link between project delivery, commercial control and technical assurance. The Senior Delivery Manager holds responsibility for ensuring that risks are identified early, mitigations are actioned and programme recovery plans are executed decisively. They drive consistent application of Boldyn’s delivery frameworks and act as the quality gate between design, construction and handover. The role spans planning, design, mobilisation, construction and operational readiness, ensuring each project moves through phase control with precision and traceability. The Senior Delivery Manager champions compliance with Health & Safety and CDM Regulations or equivalent safety regulations, holds a strong command of commercial and contractual obligations and enforces disciplined change control. They are the trusted senior lead who ensures Boldyn does not fail on delivery — setting standards, auditing performance and maintaining a culture of discipline and accountability. By supporting and developing Delivery Managers, they strengthen overall delivery capability, enhance commercial awareness and protect Boldyn’s reputation for quality, safety and reliability.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor and coach Delivery Managers and support colleagues to achieve delivery excellence and personal development.

• Act as the operational lead of the delivery function, providing clear direction and escalation management across projects.
• Define and enforce delivery standards, processes and tools across the team in alignment with the Programme Office framework.

• Conduct regular reviews with Delivery Managers to evaluate progress, quality, risks and adherence to standards.

• Create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement across all delivery disciplines.
  

Programme Oversight & Risk Management

• Provide consolidated visibility of programme risks, milestones, dependencies and inter-project impacts.

• Support all Delivery Managers with RAID oversight, ensuring that issues are resolved and mitigations tracked to closure.

• Undertake regular audits of delivery performance, ensuring data accuracy, escalation discipline and early warning reporting to the Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager and Programme Office.

• Intervene decisively to resolve high-impact risks and drive recovery strategies across multiple projects.

• Ensure lessons learned are captured and embedded into processes to continually strengthen Boldyn’s delivery resilience.
  

Commercial, Contractual & Supplier Management

• Act as the senior point of contact for deployment partners and key suppliers, managing performance against SLAs and contract obligations.

• Hold oversight of commercial performance across all assigned projects, ensuring budgets, forecasts and change controls are managed correctly.

• Review and challenge cost movements, variations and subcontractor claims, maintaining commercial integrity and traceability.

• Partner with Procurement Commercial teams on supplier tenders, pricing frameworks and contract negotiations to ensure competitive value and uphold Boldyn’s commitment to Responsible Procurement

• Monitor supplier invoicing and milestone achievement, applying financial governance to prevent cost leakage.

• Drive understanding of contractual obligations across the Delivery function, ensuring compliance and consistent reporting of commercial risk.
  

Technical Integration & Design Interface

• Work with the Solution Design Manager and engineering leads to ensure buildable solutions, version control and design assurance.

• Chair or oversee build readiness reviews, ensuring designs are construction-compliant and approval-ready before execution.

• Apply broad technical understanding of DAS, Wi-Fi and fibre to support decisions and resolve on-site issues.

• Safeguard alignment between design intent and site execution to achieve quality, compliance and handover readiness.

• Impart construction and engineering knowledge to the wider team and maintain buildability / build assurance compliance.
  

Subcontractor Oversight & Site Delivery

• Maintain high standards of subcontractor management through structured oversight and performance reviews.

• Ensure deployment partners meet programme requirements, technical standards and safety obligations.

• Review site-level reports, audits and evidence submissions from Delivery Managers to confirm alignment with contractual KPIs.

• Provide escalation support for complex build or logistics issues, balancing practical judgement with compliance.

• Ensure that site operations, logistics and access constraints are effectively managed across concurrent projects.
  

Quality Management & Technical Assurance

• Oversee quality assurance across all delivery activity, ensuring design intent, build standards and handover documentation meet Boldyn requirements.

• Validate that all installations pass quality inspections and technical sign-offs before handover to clients and operators.

• Conduct spot checks and process audits to assess adherence to build quality, documentation standards and record-keeping.

• Drive process improvement initiatives to reduce rework and improve first-time-right outcomes.

• Collaborate with Design and Engineering to align QA outputs with technical deliverables and version control processes.
  

Health & Safety & CDM Leadership

• Act as the senior delivery lead for compliance with Health & Safety and CDM 2015 Regulations, or equivalent safety regulations.

• Hold accountability for ensuring Principal Contractor and Principal Designer duties are executed in accordance with statutory requirements.

• Champion a proactive safety culture by embedding best practice across all delivery sites and partners.

• Review Construction Phase Plans, RAMS and risk assessments to ensure they meet Boldyn and legislative standards.

• Conduct safety inspections and participate in SHEQ audits, ensuring findings are closed promptly and lessons are cascaded across teams.
  

Stakeholder Engagement & Management

• Act as senior delivery interface with clients, MNOs, landlords and internal stakeholders.

• Provide structured updates to the Programme Manager, Programme Office and Head of Delivery, presenting delivery performance, risk and recovery actions.

• Support executive reporting to Programme Office governance forums and steering committees, including inputs to dashboards, stage reviews and phase gates.

• Drive alignment between internal stakeholders to ensure programme objectives are met collectively.

What You’ll Bring

Essential:

• Experience leading telecoms infrastructure delivery (DAS, Wi-Fi, fibre, or neutral host environments).

• Proven leadership of multiple project delivery teams with direct accountability for cost, schedule and safety.

• Professional project management qualification (PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP)

• Professional CDM qualification CITB / NEBOSH / IOSH / SMSTS.

• Demonstrable ability to apply governance, RAID and assurance disciplines across multiple concurrent projects.

• Strong technical understanding of telecoms build and integration across radio, fibre and power.

• Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Proven success improving delivery quality, cost control and risk management performance.

• Degree in construction, civil engineering, telecoms management or project management (eg. BEng, BSc or equivalent)

• Full UK driving licence.
  

Desirable:

• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng).

• Experience working within or alongside MNOs, Neutral Hosts, or Infrastructure Operators.

• Experience contributing to ISO-certified QA or governance systems.

• Formal leadership or management training (ILM / CMI Level 7).

About Us
At Boldyn Networks, we’re reimagining the future of interconnectivity. Our network solutions are solving some of tomorrow’s greatest challenges. We are one team across the globe. Always listening. Learning. We value different perspectives and challenge each other to be our best. Here, you can change lives today and create a better tomorrow.

Why work with us?
We’re large enough to deliver and maintain large-scale operations, giving you the opportunity to work on exciting projects and expand your skills. You’ll be surrounded talented colleagues who thrive on solving problems, just like you. Together, you’ll make your mark on projects that matter and find new strengths along the way.

We also offer:

• Flexible working opportunities
• Parental leave with up to 20 weeks paid at full salary
• Holiday allowance starting at 25 days rising with length of service
• 4 days off each year to volunteer
  

Ready to apply?
Are you ready to create an impact that will last for generations? Join us at Boldyn Networks today. Hit apply and follow the instructions to get started.

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