Digital Delivery Manager

Location/s: Manchester, Newcastle, London; UK
Recruiter contact: Cassidy Browne

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Overview of the role

The Central Digital Delivery Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing the successful delivery of Digital Value Plans across major projects and strategic opportunities. The role acts as the primary connection between project teams, Central Digital specialists, product teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that digital opportunities are effectively scoped, prioritised, delivered, adopted and monitored.

The Digital Delivery Manager ensures that resources are focused on the highest value opportunities, delivery progress is visible, and project outcomes are realised through effective digital implementation.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

Digital Value Planning & Delivery

• Lead the delivery of Digital Value Plans across assigned frameworks , projects and programmes.
• Coordinate the identification, assessment and prioritisation of digital opportunities with project teams and business stakeholders.
• Facilitate digital value planning workshops and opportunity discovery sessions.
• Maintain visibility of all active opportunities, ensuring progress, risks and dependencies are actively managed.
• Support the development of business cases, value estimations and delivery plans for digital initiatives.
• Ensure opportunities are progressed through the appropriate governance, approval and delivery processes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with Project Principals, Project Managers, Technical Leads and Business Unit leadership.
• Act as the primary coordination point between project teams and Central Digital capabilities.
• Ensure business needs are clearly understood and translated into deliverable digital solutions.
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on delivery progress, risks, value realisation and strategic alignment.
• Ensure stakeholders’ contribution to successful delivery and adoption of opportunities is effectively communicated.
• Clear communication to business stakeholders of their responsibilities to support delivery of successful digital opportunities.

Delivery Coordination

• Coordinate resources across Central Digital teams, including Information Management, GIS, AI, Automation, Moata Webapps, PowerApps and PowerBI, Data, Digital Products and specialist SMEs.
• Support mobilisation of delivery teams and ensure clear ownership of digital opportunities.
• Monitor delivery against agreed timelines, objectives and value targets.
• Escalate issues, conflicts and delivery risks appropriately and proactively.

Value Realisation & Adoption

• Work with project teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption of digital solutions.
• Support identification of adoption leads and opportunity owners.
• Monitor benefit realisation and track delivery outcomes against agreed objectives.
• Capture lessons learned and support continuous improvement of delivery approaches and digital products.

Governance, Reporting & Compliance

• Maintain accurate records of opportunities, delivery status, risks, issues and value performance.
• Ensure compliance with Central Digital governance, reporting standards and delivery processes.
• Contribute to portfolio reviews and capacity planning activities.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Experience managing complex project delivery or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across technical and business functions.
• Experience managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical audiences.
• Experience in engineering, infrastructure, construction or professional services environments.

Desirable:

• Experience delivering digital solutions, process improvement or technology-enabled transformation.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies and change management principles.
• Understanding of digital tools, data management, automation, AI or information management solutions.

Key Behaviours:

• Commercially aware and outcome focused.
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proactive and able to operate with a high degree of autonomy.
• Collaborative and relationship driven.
• Able to challenge constructively and prioritise effectively.
• Passionate about digital innovation and continuous improvement.

Success Measures:

• Delivery of agreed Digital Value Plans and opportunities.
• Achievement of digital value and business outcomes.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and engagement.
• Consistent reporting and governance compliance.
• Successful coordination of Central Digital resources and project teams.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.