The Head of Digital Delivery & Governance leads programme delivery for McLaren's digital initiatives.

As McLaren builds a direct, lifelong relationship with clients, its digital portfolio is growing fast in scale and ambition.

The role sits within Commercial Technology & AI Enablement and reports to its Director.

Programme Leadership: Lead the planning and execution of McLaren's digital programmes, from investment approval through to launch, adoption and handover into support.
Team Leadership: Lead, develop and deploy a team of project leads across the portfolio.
Cross Team Coordination: Act as the central point of coordination between product, experience, engineering and platform teams, the wider business and delivery partners.
Ways of Working: Establish one consistent way of working across delivery teams.
Business Partnering and Demand Management: Lead business partnering and provide a single point of entry for the business.
Delivery Governance: Define and run governance matched to the size and risk of each initiative.
Release and Business Readiness: Partner with engineering on release planning, and own business readiness for every release.
Delivery Partner Management: Hold delivery partners to their commercial and delivery commitments.
Financial Management: Own the digital programme budget and forecast.
Assurance and Reporting: Set clear go live criteria for data protection, security and compliance.
Continuous Improvement: Measure and improve delivery predictability, cycle time and quality.

Substantial experience leading delivery of multi-team, multi-partner digital portfolios at scale.
A proven record of designing and running a delivery operating model and proportionate governance in a product-led organisation.
Experience leading and developing project leads and programme managers.
Command of agile at scale and hybrid delivery.
Strong financial management: budget ownership, forecasting, business cases and benefits tracking.
Experience with portfolio and work management tools such as Jira and Confluence.

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

Structured career development framework
25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday
Enhanced company pension scheme
Discretionary annual bonus award
Private medical insurance and health cash plan
Life assurance benefit
Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
Generous parental leave policies
A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

Head of Digital Delivery & Governance

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