Senior Delivery Manager (Sponsorship Available) At Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Employer: Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Salary: £50,900 – £68,000 per year
Hours: Full-time 35 hours per week
Closing Date: 11 May 2026

Job Overview

Are you passionate about enabling high-performing delivery teams and ensuring complex technology products are released safely and effectively?

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join the Exam Technology Organisation (ETO), working within Dev and Application Services. This is a key role where you will partner closely with Product Managers and technical teams to maximise delivery flow, quality, and team effectiveness while supporting the mission of delivering trusted exams and assessments worldwide.

About the Role

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you will be embedded within a product team in ETO and accountable for enabling effective, predictable delivery. You will ensure there is a timely flow of work and information, support release and risk management, and proactively shape team capability and capacity to meet delivery outcomes.

Working in close partnership with the Product Manager, you will help balance priorities, manage dependencies, and create the conditions for teams to perform at their best. While you will not have direct line management accountability, your influence and leadership will be critical to the success of the team and the wider organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Owning and overseeing release planning and release management, ensuring appropriate controls, approvals, and measures are in place
• Supporting forecasting and cost tracking by inputting into product budgets, including headcount, skills, and third-party costs
• Proactively identifying, managing, and reporting delivery risks and cross-team dependencies
• Enabling effective collaboration across product, technical, and operational stakeholders
• Supporting the formation and continuous improvement of delivery teams, encouraging experimentation and learning
• Acting as a senior point of contact for delivery matters within your area of responsibility

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should adjustments be required due to a disability or long-term health condition.

About You

You are an experienced delivery professional who thrives in complex, fast-moving environments and is comfortable influencing without formal authority.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical knowledge with proven delivery management experience, and who can translate between engineering detail and delivery outcomes.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience working in agile delivery teams, using Scrum and/or Kanban
• Experience leading or enabling software delivery teams
• Strong stakeholder and customer management capabilities
• Working knowledge of release management and risk management
• Experience working in cross-functional, distributed teams, including onshore and offshore collaboration
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills

If the above minimum requirements are met, applications are encouraged. Applications will be stronger with the following:

Desirable Criteria

• A data-driven and probabilistic approach to delivery management
• Strong experience managing dependencies and reducing delivery risk
• A passion for continuous improvement, learning, and experimentation
• Confidence running workshops, ceremonies, and large group sessions
• Experience empowering teams and supporting decentralised decision-making

Additional Information

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on the careers site.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring the recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme’s Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, priority is given to those who best meet the minimum criteria, as with applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand eligibility based on the role being applied for.

Rewards and Benefits

Cambridge University Press & Assessment will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, a world-class, flexible rewards package is offered, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

Recruitment Process

The closing date for all applications will be 11th May. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place shortly after it closes.

If shortlisted and progressed through the stages, candidates can expect:

• One application question at point of CV and cover letter
• A 15-minute screening call with the Hiring Manager
• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams with a role-related task to be completed in advance
• Final stage interview in-person at the offices in Cambridge

If reasonable adjustments are required during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity to inform via the online application form. Adjustments will be accommodated where possible.

Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Applications must be submitted via the official online application procedure. CVs should not be sent directly to recruiters. If technical difficulties occur or additional support is required with submitting an online application, contact the Recruiter.

Why Join Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Joining Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing the mission will inspire growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where continuous learning is encouraged. Applications are welcomed from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

Better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. Applications are welcomed from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

How to Apply

If this opportunity interests you, head to the company’s official website for full details — click here to submit your application.